You could see the signs of his last struggle in the mud around his muzzle.
To Stowe, the Civil War, now underway, was a millennial war, "the last struggle for liberty" that would precede the coming of the Lord.
Here we are, grasping for the full loutishness and not being able quite to get it in the last struggle to break away from the banality of everyday life.
In his last struggle against Stalin's project for a centralised Soviet Union, Lenin again advocated the unconditional right of small nations to secede (in this case, Georgia was at stake), insisting on the full sovereignty of the national entities that composed the Soviet state – no wonder that, on 27 September 1922, in a letter to the Politburo, Stalin accused Lenin of "national liberalism".
He has not had a drink in nearly a decade, but those last struggles are still painfully vivid.
Rarely can a struggle lasting two hours and 47 minutes have swung so violently.
But the grad-student-union movement at private schools is decades old — by some counts, the fight at Yale is the longest-lasting struggle for union recognition in the country — and throughout its history its opponents, including me, once upon a time, have relied on the élitist logic that unions are for other people, not for our kind.
This struggle lasted for decades.
The struggle lasted only seconds...
That struggle lasted three weeks.
In a sign of the intense, last-minute struggle for an edge, Republican plans to unveil their own new bill in the last afternoon were abruptly scrapped.
