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Struggler

noun
1.
A person who struggles with difficulties or with great effort.






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"Struggler" Quotes from Famous Books



... song and loudest breath of praise Echo amid the hymning spheres of light,— With heaven's lyres and angels' loving lays,— Send to the loyal struggler for the right, Joy—not of time, nor yet by nature sown, But the celestial ...
— Poems • Mary Baker Eddy

... other hand, rapt to the pitch of martyrdom, exerting all his power to resist his wife, and even to convert her—this scene, we say, is full of noble height and pathos, as pathos and height were possible in the verse which Corneille had to write. Neither struggler in this tragic strife moves the other. Paulina is withdrawing when Severus enters. She addresses her lover severely, but Polyeuctes intervenes to defend him. In a short scene, Polyeuctes, by a sort of last will and testament, bequeaths his wife to his rival, and retires ...
— Classic French Course in English • William Cleaver Wilkinson

... tainted, guilty heart, Which it had hidden from me. Oh, the pang— The poignant throe of uttermost despair— That followed the discovery! I felt That I was lost beyond the grace of God; And my heart turned with instinct sure and swift To the strong struggler, praying at my side, And begged his succor and his prayers. I felt That he must lead me up to where the hand Of Jesus could lay hold on me, or I was doomed. Temptation's spell was past. He took my hand. And, as he prayed that we might be forgiven, And pledged our future loyalty ...
— Bitter-Sweet • J. G. Holland

... her youth, so immature-looking, so helpless-looking, he felt the first impulse of genuine interest in her. Perhaps, had that shadow happened to fall when he was seeing her as the commonplace and colorless little struggler for bread, and seeming doomed speedily to be worsted in the struggle—perhaps, he would have felt no interest, but only the brief qualm of pity that we dare not encourage in ourselves, on a journey so beset with hopeless pitiful things as is the ...
— The Grain Of Dust - A Novel • David Graham Phillips



Words linked to "Struggler" :   somebody, someone, mortal, soul, struggle, person, individual



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