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  • adverb In a struggling way.

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Examples

  • The next instant a swarm of savage little red men surrounded them, and rudely bore them, strugglingly, back into the hut.

    Tom Swift and His Electric Rifle; or, Daring Adventures in Elephant Land Victor [pseud.] Appleton

  • Such a concept utilized by a nurse to view her particular ongoing changing world can help her to understand more realistically, survive within, and strugglingly participate as a quality force.

    Humanistic Nursing Josephine G. Paterson

  • One or two opened their eyes strugglingly, stared glumly at the intruder, and then went to sleep again.

    My Brilliant Career Miles Franklin 1916

  • I repressed, I got through them as hardly, as strugglingly there,

    Robert Browning: How to Know Him William Lyon Phelps 1904

  • Helen had the look of one who strugglingly overcomes a paroxysm of anger.

    The Crown of Life George Gissing 1880

  • I repressed, I got through them as hardly, as strugglingly there,

    An Introduction to the Study of Robert Browning's Poetry Hiram Corson 1869

  • Even in those twilight regions, in which the telescope is our only guide, and among phenomena whose very existence it strugglingly essays to determine, we find ever, along with the mere fact of existence, indications of arrangement.

    Theism: The Witness of Reason and Nature to an All-Wise and Beneficent Creator. 1823-1886 1855

  • I repressed, I got through them as hardly, as strugglingly there,

    Selections from the Poems and Plays of Robert Browning Robert Browning 1850

  • His pulse, which was usually low, quickened, and his lips were tightly compressed; he shrank from the contents with a jealous pang; as a light quivers strugglingly in a noxious vault, love descended into that hideous breast, gleamed upon dreary horrors, and warred with the noxious atmosphere: but it shone still.

    Lucretia — Volume 02 Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton 1838

  • His pulse, which was usually low, quickened, and his lips were tightly compressed; he shrank from the contents with a jealous pang; as a light quivers strugglingly in a noxious vault, love descended into that hideous breast, gleamed upon dreary horrors, and warred with the noxious atmosphere: but it shone still.

    Lucretia — Complete Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton 1838

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