wrestling

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Recently he wrote a wise, forbearing essay on the troubles of Washington Mayor Marion Barry, concluding with Donne's words, "Thou knowest this man's fall, thou knowest not his wrastling."

From Time Magazine Archive

In a moment there was a quiver of the bank, and it went from beneath my feet, leaving me wrastling with the waters once more.

From Seven Frozen Sailors by Fenn, George Manville

That thee is sent, receyve in buxomnesse, The wrastling for this worlde axeth a fall.

From Outspoken Essays by Inge, William Ralph

It took me several years of wrastling with life," he was fond of saying, "to find out that it ain't so much matter whar you be, as what you be.

From Peak and Prairie From a Colorado Sketch-book by Moore, Emma G.

Pastimes to delight the minde, the Cornish men have Guary miracles and three mens songs; and, for the exercise of the body, hunting, hawking, shooting, wrastling, hurling, and such other games.

From Chips From A German Workshop. Vol. III. Essays on Literature, Biography, and Antiquities by Müller, F. Max (Friedrich Max)