struggling (adj.)
- drudging
- fighting
- hardworking
- laboring
- plodding
- quarrelsome
- straining
- toiling
- warlike
- warring
- working
Is not a patron, my lord, one who looks with unconcern on a man struggling for life in the water, and when he has reached ground encumbers him with help?
A brave man struggling in the storms of fate,
And greatly falling with a falling state.
While Cato gives his little senate laws,
What bosom beats not in his country's cause?
