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There was a light "cling!"

It holds in its mazes stray bits of color,scarlet berries, evergreen sprigs, blue raspberry-stems, and sprays of yellow willow; glittering necklaces and wreaths and tiaras of brilliant ice-work cling and trail around its edges, and no regal palace shines with such carcanets of jewels as this winter ball-room of the dancing drops.

The delicate cotoneaster vine clings to the stones of it.

Once we see that the original of the form was a plant, we shall ever in the developed, artistic form cling, in a general way at least, to the laws of its organization, and we shall at any rate be in a position to avoid violent incongruities.

A faint haze clings to the distant woods at the foot of the hills; it is afternoon, the best part of an autumn day, and sufficiently warm to make the stile a pleasant resting-place.

Julia, let fond remembrance cling Around the parting hour; Unfading let that garland be, Late plucked from friendship's bower.

It tells, to whom each wish so fondly clings?

"That's what rails are made forto cling to.

But even here the habit of genuine observation clings to him.

The grateful nursling clings to its protectress, Mutely imploring leave to follow her.

Weakness and helplessness cling to the protecting power as a child clings to its mother.

The noblest river will unite itself to the ocean, and the lovely Mádhaví-creeper clings naturally to the Mango, the only tree capable of supporting it. KING.

A woman who is not happy in her married life clings round any other feeling, if it be only friendship, as the ivy clings to the tree.

Whether the result of this renewed dilution is entirely satisfactory I leave you to judge, but certainly at least something of the well-known and popular aroma of romantic artificiality clings about the pages of her latest story, Lord Tony's Wife (HODDER AND STOUGHTON), while at the bottom of the cup there is not a little dash of the old strong flavour.

Such days have in themselves, of necessity, no virtue above other days; and yet a tender interest clings to them simply as the last.

It is a loyalty to great ends, an anchored cling to solid principles, which knows how to swing with the tide, but not to be carried away by it, that we demand in public men,and not persistence in prejudice, sameness of policy, or stolid antagonism to the inevitable.

With each expanding flower we find Some pleasing sentiment combin'd; Love in the myrtle bloom is seen, Remembrance to the violet clings, Peace brightens in the olive green, Hope from the half-closed iris springs, Victory from the laurel grows, And woman blushes in the rose.

Once we see that the original of the form was a plant, we shall ever in the developed, artistic form cling, in a general way at least, to the laws of its organization, and we shall at any rate be in a position to avoid violent incongruities.