Only Handy Solomon clung desperately to the wheel, jamming his weight to port in the hope she might pay up:

The Irish, clinging tenaciously to the calendar of St. Patrick, carried it everywhere in their missionary labours, so that the controversy was not confined to Ireland and England.

The man clung tightly.

This old male party, with the remains of a luxuriant growth of very red hair, clinging fondly, like underbrush round a rock, to the sides of his head, with a seedy-looking patch far under the chin to match, whose limp dickey droops pensively as if seeking to crawl bodily into the embrace of the plaid gingham which encircles his neck, and in whose nose is embodied that rare vermilion tint which artists so love to dwell upon;this is the Hon.

" He went to work at once, giving occasional curt directions to Avery, while Jeanie clung convulsively to Piers, her face buried in his coat, and fought for self-control.

The sorrel was dashing down the road at a great pace, but the boy clung firmly to his seat and gloried in the breeze that fanned his hot cheeks.

Her hair hung in wavy dishevelment about her head and shoulders, and she clung passionately to the child in her arms.

The slender but not feeble arm of Oriana, as she clung frantically to her husband, and strove to draw him back to safety, was, apparently, the only human power that now preserved him from instant destruction.

It is rather odd how obstinately life clings to the most hackneyed trick of ballad-makers; and still naively pretends to enrich her productions by the stale device of introducing a refrainso that the idlest remarks of as much as three years ago keep cropping up as the actual gist of the present!...

They passed out of the house together, Charles clinging tight to John Marston's arms.

Ada, in her beautiful mink furs, which she clung to persistently, though the fall weather so far had been very mild, was presently seen coming across the grass.

The fair sex raises its voice against tobacco and other masculine sedatives, but clings pertinaciously to this delusion.

The shop had been her special care when times were good, and she clung affectionately to its ruins still.

" "That's what I keep a-thinkin'," the poor mother said, clinging pathetically to that which gave her consolation and cheer.

"Vitello"she began, her tongue clinging lovingly to the double l sound"Vee-tail-loh" "Ugh!"

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.

But, as the party approached, a chill struck into the heart of Oriana, and she instinctively clung closer to her husband's arm, as if she felt that some danger threatened him; while the open, manly brow of Henrich contracted for an instant, and was crossed by a look of doubt and suspicion that was seldom seen to darken it, and could not rest there long.

Nor cling So fiercely to him.

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.

" She clung to him silently, with a closeness that was passionate.

" Staggering, gasping for breath, clinging weakly to the guard's arm, the lady left the room.

The three horses had taken it into their heads to bolt for home; they were plunging and pulling in three directions at the same time, the count manfully clinging to the bridle reins, in great danger of being suddenly and shockingly dismembered.

Why did this chance word cling to him so obstinately?

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.

At first I thought she wept over one of his blue-black hands, which she clung eagerly to with both her own.