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.

All those lusts, appetites, desires, opinions, limited conceptions and prejudices to which you have hitherto so tenaciously clung, let them fall from you.

" 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.

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.

To the eastward Sherman still clung desperately to the crests he had won, but Jack saw with agony that, slipping between him and the river, a great wedge of gray was hurrying forward.

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.

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.

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

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!...

But she still clung to the French alliance as fondly as if the objects which she had originally hoped to gain by it had been fully accomplished; and, as the heir to the French monarchy was very nearly of the same age as the young archduchess, she began to entertain hopes of uniting the two royal families by a marriage which should render the union between the two nations indissoluble.

All the Russian trenches were enfiladed by shrapnel from one direction or another, but the Russians clung to their positions obstinately.

Gloria clung passionately to the one straw offered her: Mark King had come; he had saved her, if only for the moment.

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

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

There stood the fine hyacinths under glass bells, some quite fresh, others somewhat sickly; water snakes were twining about them, and black crabs clung tightly to the stalks.

How affectionately his soul clung to Jonathan!

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

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

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.

Nor cling So fiercely to him.

She even convulsively clung to him.

I wondered that LeVere hung on so long in his perilous position, although, in spite of the increased strain, the anchor still clung firmly.

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