close grips

Example Sentences

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However, they were not destined to come to close grips with the enemy.

From The Boy Ranchers on the Trail by Baker, Willard F.

It is so easily possible for a man to be at close grips with the world and yet to be ever more and more out of touch with its realities.

From The Threshold Grace by Ainsworth, Percy C.

His, unless a trained forest warrior himself, was a headlong bravery, and now this gallant little force asked for nothing but to come to close grips with the enemy.

From The Scouts of the Valley by Altsheler, Joseph A. (Joseph Alexander)

Then they sure got to close grips," concluded Kiddie, "and I guess he got as much as he gave.

From Kiddie the Scout by Leighton, Robert

"When shall we come to close grips with them?"

From All for a Scrap of Paper A Romance of the Present War by Hocking, Joseph