Though Poles and Greeks, English and Russians, may be in abundance, still they rarely congregate in nationalities,save the Poles, who speak their own language at all times and places, and cling the more fondly to their own idiom since they have been robbed of everything else.

The fear made me nestle nearer to him, and cling tightly, because I said to myself that perhaps I might never be in his arms again: that this might be the last time that his eyesthose eyes that are not coldmight look at me with love in them, as now.

For three centuries after Hastings French was the language of the upper classes, of courts and schools and literature; yet so tenaciously did the common people cling to their own strong speech that in the end English absorbed almost the whole body of French words and became the language of the land.

Why did this chance word cling to him so obstinately?

These, on the contrary, acquire additional strength with the age of the plant, because the emptied cells cling so firmly together, by means of a certain resinous deposit, that it is impossible to obtain them unbroken without a great deal of trouble.

I find this outlaw in my grasp; shall I, then, foolishly cling to a promise so hastily given?

But why those who are Christians and not Pagans, who believe that death is not an eternal sleep, who wrest from life its uses and gather from life its beauty,why they should dally along the road, and cling frantically to the old landmarks, and shrink fearfully from the approaching future, I cannot tell.

Notpassionately notto cling heavily about his neck, drag at his feet, steal his wayfarer's liberty,no, not the smallest moment of it!

Nowadays only provincial philosophers cling to that worn-out creed.

They cling together persistently in groups that move as units, or else they separate.

You cling upon PIPER [sternly] Your word.

And presently she did be quiet in mine arms; though I to feel how she did yet tremble; and she did cling tight unto me, and her face to be against mine armour.

The larger larches have a different plaything: on the bare branches, thickly studded with buds, cling airily the small, light cones of last year's growth, each crowned, with a little ball of soft snow, four times taller than itself,save where some have drooped sideways, so that each carries, poor weary Atlas, a sphere upon its back.

Occasionally persons convalescing from serious sickness where anodynes were taken, unwisely cling to them long after recovery.

While the great host of the Danish invaders swooped down over England and Gaul, the pirates that sailed to Ireland had only force to dash themselves on the coast, and there cling cautiously to guarded settlements.

"My memories are so keen, so pitilessly real, I can scarce endure them, yet cling to them the more desperately.

The very pension, to which she would have been entitled living singly, was cut off by her second marriage, and with habits of luxury and indolence, such as too often appertain to the high-born, and cling fatally to the physically delicate, the burden of her expenses was more than her husband could well sustain.