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grappled

«To the last, I grapple with thee; From Hell's heart, I stab at thee; For hate's sake, I spit my last breath at thee»
«Writing is like this-you dredge for the poem's meaning the way police dredge for a body. They think it is down there under the black water, they work the grappling hooks back and forth.»
«No errors of opinion can possibly be dangerous in a country where opinion is left free to grapple with them»
«Providence has hidden a charm in difficult undertakings which is appreciated only by those who dare to grapple with them»
«It is when we try to grapple with another man's intimate need that we perceive how incomprehensible, wavering, and misty are the beings that share with us the sight of the stars and the warmth of the sun.»
«Monuments are the grappling-irons that bind one generation to another»
«With death doomed to grapple, / Beneath this cold slab, he / Who lied in the chapel / Now lies in the Abbey.»
«Superstition, bigotry and prejudice, ghosts though they are, cling tenaciously to life; they are shades armed with tooth and claw. They must be grappled with unceasingly, for it is a fateful part of human destiny that it is condemned to wage perpetual war against ghosts. A shade is not easily taken by the throat and destroyed.»
«The friends thou hast, and their adoption tried, grapple them to thy soul with hoops of steel, but do not dull thy palm with entertainment of each new-hatched unfledged comrade.»