All 3 Uses of
grapple
in
Middlemarch
- In short, he had weight, and might be expected to grapple with a disease and throw it; while Dr. Minchin might be better able to detect it lurking and to circumvent it.†
Chpt 2 *
- When the commonplace "We must all die" transforms itself suddenly into the acute consciousness "I must dieāand soon," then death grapples us, and his fingers are cruel; afterwards, he may come to fold us in his arms as our mother did, and our last moment of dim earthly discerning may be like the first.†
Chpt 4
- She stopped in speechless agitation, not crying, but feeling as if she were being inwardly grappled.†
Chpt 8
Definition:
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(grapple) to struggle:
typically a mental struggle -- as in coming to terms with something
more rarely a physical struggle -- as in hand-to-hand combat or moving something heavy or awkward