[f. STRUGGLE v. + -ING2.] That struggles. In recent use often: That has difficulty in making a livelihood.
1577. Kendall, Flowers of Epigr., 99. When stiffe, strong, struglyng, sturdie storms, began for to arise.
1590. Spenser, F. Q., III. xi. 12. There an huge heape of singultes did oppresse His strugling soule.
1599. Marston, Antonio’s Rev., IV. i. Now patience hoope my sides with steeled ribs, least I doe burst my breast With struggling passions.
1693. Dryden, Persius, V. 232. The strugling Greyhound gnaws his Leash in vain. Ibid. (1697), Æneis, V. 35. Sicilia … whose hospitable Shores In safety we may reach with strugling Oars.
1757. Gray, Elegy, xviii. The struggling pangs of conscious truth to hide.
1817. C. Wolfe, Burial of Sir J. Moore, 7. By the struggling moon-beam’s misty light.
1838. Dickens, Nich. Nick., xxiv. ‘What do you mean to do for me, old fellow?’ asked Mr. Lenville, poking the struggling fire with his walking-stick.
1851. Mayhew, Lond. Labour, I. 324. The rest of the class may be described as merely street-sellers; toiling, struggling, plodding, itinerant tradesmen.
1892. Photogr. Ann., II. 219. To the impecunious and struggling photographer … ‘copies,’ of course, mean considerable inconvenience.
absol. 1834. (title) Leigh Hunt’s London Journal, to Assist the Inquiring, Animate the Struggling, [etc.].
1837. Carlyle, Fr. Rev., I. V. vi. But, to the living and the struggling, a new, Fourteenth morning dawns.
1884. J. Payn, Lit. Recoll., 75. Their behaviour to the Young and Struggling.
