death-grapple

But, for the wise, there needed no conjunction of planets to tell them that the day was near at hand, when the long desultory duel between Spain and England would end, once and for all, in some great death-grapple.

Westward Ho! 2007

And always before us the long road unrolled, with somewhere at the end of it two armies clinched in a death-grapple.

Greenmantle 2005

Our death-grapple was interrupted by a man who forcibly threw himself between us, and pushing us separate from each other, exclaimed, in a loud and commanding voice,

Rob Roy 2005

But you cannot spend ten minutes in a death-grapple without your adversary getting to know you.

Greenmantle 2005

One death-grapple in the darkness ’twixt old systems and the Word;

James Russell Lowell (1819-91) 1989

It seems far more probable that he saw a situation in which the enemy was being mauled almost to death without significant risk to the Allied armies; to slam the trap precipitately shut with ground forces and to close for a death-grapple with the desperate men fighting eastwards, offered a risk of humiliation which could not be justified by any possible tactical or strategic gain.

Overlord D-Day And The Battle for Normandy Max Hastings 1984

It seems far more probable that he saw a situation in which the enemy was being mauled almost to death without significant risk to the Allied armies; to slam the trap precipitately shut with ground forces and to close for a death-grapple with the desperate men fighting eastwards, offered a risk of humiliation which could not be justified by any possible tactical or strategic gain.

Overlord D-Day And The Battle for Normandy Max Hastings 1984

It seems far more probable that he saw a situation in which the enemy was being mauled almost to death without significant risk to the Allied armies; to slam the trap precipitately shut with ground forces and to close for a death-grapple with the desperate men fighting eastwards, offered a risk of humiliation which could not be justified by any possible tactical or strategic gain.

Overlord D-Day And The Battle for Normandy Max Hastings 1984

It seems far more probable that he saw a situation in which the enemy was being mauled almost to death without significant risk to the Allied armies; to slam the trap precipitately shut with ground forces and to close for a death-grapple with the desperate men fighting eastwards, offered a risk of humiliation which could not be justified by any possible tactical or strategic gain.

Overlord D-Day And The Battle for Normandy Max Hastings 1984

It was a great centre when Rome and Carthage wrestled in a death-grapple for its possession.

The Ontario Readers: Fourth Book Ontario. Ministry of Education