be at grips

Most likely because day and night they're at grips with death.

He wanted it heard by the few who were at grips with The Shadow.

"He knew that the firemen were at grips with his ancient enemy."

He had been at grips with the leaders of the Golden Masks.

Perhaps it was also the knowledge that within a few hours he would finally be at grips with the High Councilor.

Right to-day must be at grips with might.

The commonwealth was at grips with evil.

As for the Forties, who would choose to be at grips with both Hitler and Stalin?

He was at grips with Jackie Althorn.

They believed that the Japanese would attack Russia, who had been at grips with Germany since June.

That little girl Ellen Melville was lovelier stuff because she was at grips with the world.

Robespierre is at grips with Danton.

Before the paralyzed Narvo could recover his wits, Blue Face was at grips with him.

But the Sicama and the Gobba, running in through the fire, were at grips with Lomellino's three.

In his desire to be at grips with the enemy on one occasion he overboosted his Spitfire’s engine while pursuing a posse of Fw190s.

He couldn't see his foe, but he was conscious at once that he was at grips with a powerful and desperate man.

He also suspects Elspeth of having "been at grips in a potting-shed at Windsor in '59" with him.

Slowly he had learned that he was at grips with a determined and versatile rival, and that this rival hailed from a despised planet.

Meanwhile, back at the recession leading economists, leading political leaders and leading President George H. W. Bush are at grips with the most vital question of the day.

Staring through sweat-dimmed eyes at the wrist and forearms of Turk, he knew he was at grips with a man who was a veteran of many rough-and-tumble brawls.

As if expressing Moncada's impatience to be at grips, their speed was an ever-increasing one, mercilessly wrung by the whips of the wardens from the slaves at the oars.

We hadn't the slightest idea where to find you at the advance post and for hours we, unsupported, have been at grips with more Germans than you could count in a week.

For the moment the adventurer was at grips with the flood and with the ice, guiding his horse as best he could toward mid-stream, where the current kept the threatening floes at bay.

Then they were at grips by the frame through which the skyline showed and a breeze, whipping Cranston's face, brought back his scattered wits as he looked at the man with whom he struggled.