There would be no struggling for the first place then.
"The Expositor's Bible: The Gospel of St. John, Vol. I"
Marcus Dods
It was almost covered with earth where they had been struggling, and Mary found it.
"The Eye of Dread"
Payne Erskine
It seems to me now I have been swimming and struggling ever since.
"My Attainment of the Pole"
Frederick A. Cook