Clings
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Examples
- This is now a tainted place, and I well know the taint of it clings to me. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
- I know where your heart turns and to what it clings. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- You can see the color of his hair--faded, somewhat--by this thin shred that clings still to the temple. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- But our reverence clings to the vessels. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- My old superstition clings to me, even yet. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- Moreover, ineradicable connection with the changing, the inexplicably shifting, and with the manifold, the diverse, clings to experience. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- That peasant is more than a symbol of the privacy of human interest: he is a warning against the incurable romanticism which clings about the idea of a revolution. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- How closely he twineth, how tight he clings To his friend the huge Oak Tree! Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
- It clings to the mind, when it has once seized on it, like a lichen on the rock. Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.
- Whenever criticism slackens, whenever we sink into acquiescence, the mind swerves aside and clings with the gratitude of the weary to some fixed idea. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- The poor child clings to her for awhile, as she clings to him, and then, when the old man calls, he says “I must go! Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- Ah, poor old chap, he clings to any straw! Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
- How different is the case of the unjust who clings to appearance as the true reality! Plato. The Republic.
- It's a cold, cold night, and the fog clings so. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
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