Citations:grapple


 * 2021, Yi-Ling Liu, Sci-Fi Writer or Prophet? The Hyperreal Life of Chen Qiufan, Wired.com (9 March 2021);
 * But unlike Liu Cixin, the lionized author of The Three Body Problem, who grapples with the faraway grandeur of outer space, Chen is drawn more to the interior lives of characters struggling to anchor themselves in a moment of accelerated change—much the way nearly anyone in China struggles to anchor themselves today.


 * 1818 — Mary Shelley. Frankenstein.
 * I did not weep, but I knelt down and with a full heart thanked my guiding spirit for conducting me in safety to the place where I hoped, notwithstanding my adversary's gibe, to meet and grapple with him.


 * 1678 — John Bunyan. The Pilgrim's Progress.
 * His Word gives me no encouragement to believe; yea, himself hath shut me up in this iron cage; nor can all the men in the world let me out. O eternity, eternity! how shall I grapple with the misery that I must meet with in eternity!