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!...

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

Nor cling So fiercely to him.

" Joel went back to help on others who came, a feeble, bedraggled dozen or so that had clung despairingly to their only shelter until they were driven out.

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.

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

For I don't know any fruit that clings to its tree so faithfully, not even a "froze-'n'-thaw" winter-apple, as a Professor to the bough of which his chair is made.

In the sixties a tempest broke loose in the basket; harrowing yowls pierced the atmosphere; the girl, crimson with embarrassment and distress, signaled the conductor at Sixty-fourth Street and descended, clinging valiantly to a basket which apparently contained a pack of firecrackers in process of explosion.

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

" "At the time," Esmo began, "when material science had gained a decided ascendant, and enforced the recognition of its methods as the only ones whereby certain knowledge and legitimate belief could be attained, those who clung most earnestly to convictions not acquired or favoured by scientific logic were sorely dismayed.