They parted for the night immediately after, the one to sleep as serenely as a child almost as soon as he lay down, the other to pace to and fro, to and fro, for hours, grappling-and grappling in vain-with the sternest adversary he had ever had to encounter.
"The Lamp in the Desert"
Ethel M. Dell
Hong was pressed into service now, and with Martin, was on the roof, grappling with a rope, shouting directions.
"Sisters"
Kathleen Norris
Right in my front, a comparatively large normal was grappling with a middle about sixteen years of ago.
"Botchan (Master Darling)"
Mr. Kin-nosuke Natsume, trans. by Yasotaro Morri