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At eighty, you are on a spars to which, possibly, one, or two, or three friends of about your own age are still clinging. [6]

More example sentences with the word clinging in them

The great cliffs with their clinging, gnarled trees, the vast mountains clothed in the motley colors of the autumn, the sweet and smoky smell of the Indian summer,--all were dear to me. [9]
If we die, we die clinging to our tattered rights, and our blood alone shall tell the mournful tale of a murdered daughter and a ruined father. [5]
I believed I was clinging to the ideal of art, and that all I wanted was a chance. [9]
They rowed hard to where they could see two men clinging to the yacht; there had been three in it. [11]
Then both clinging to the upturned canoe as it is driven nearer and nearer shore.... [11]
The dogged clinging to the archaic speculations of apologists, saints, and schoolmen had brought religion to a low ebb indeed. [9]
If he dared to presume to think such a thing--" "Now, Alma," said her mother, with the clinging persistence of such natures, "you know he did. [8]
Her faithful clinging to hope was rewarded, for when one day, with drooping head, she returned home from another futile errand, she found Hannibal Melas there, as bearer of important news. [10]
If I were to come again, Mr. King, I'd come in a yacht, drive up from it in a box on two wheels, with a man clinging on behind with his back to me, and have a cottage with an English gardener. [4]
She was clinging to a vague hope. [11]
For a long time she could not help clinging desperately to her faithful Betta, and it was only by degrees that she so far recovered herself as to be able to speak to the bishop, and thank him. [10]
They all raised their heads to listen, and out of the forest into the bright firelight stepped two strangely clad human figures clinging to one another. [2]
Then I saw the Vicomtesse leaning tenderly over her cousin and whispering in her ear, and Antoinette rising, clinging to her. [9]
The light illuminated the red and white bars of the ensign, upheld by the standard bearer of the regiment, the smaller flags flaunted by the strikers--each side clinging hardily to the emblem of human liberty. [9]
Her head was small, her hair like a dark, blurred shadow clinging round it. [9]
I had a sight of a man on a plough horse with dangling harness coming up from somewhere, of the man leaping off, of ourselves being pitched on the animal's bony back and clinging there at the gallop, the man running at the side. [9]
It makes me shudder yet when I think of what I felt when I was clinging there between heaven and earth in the person of that proxy. [5]
A projecting wall sheltered the old men from the hurricane, yet they found it difficult to stand erect, even while supported by their staves and clinging to the stones of the masonry. [10]
And then, suddenly, she was clinging to me, her courage gone, her breast shaken with sobs. [9]
Ledscha did not seem to hear him, for while still clinging to the rope she looked sometimes at the sand at her feet, sometimes up to the full moon, which was now flooding both sky and earth with light. [10]
Before she could reach the bottom step, with Nefert still clinging heavily to her arm, a hard hand was laid on her shoulder, and the rough voice of Paaker exclaimed: "Stand back, you rabble! [10]
Herr Casper, deadly pale, was clinging with his right hand to the baluster, pressing his left on his brow, as he vainly struggled for composure and breath. [10]
Mr. Bernard found out their project accidentally, and, wishing to have his share in it, brought home from one of his long walks some boughs full of variously tinted leaves, such as were still clinging to the stricken trees. [6]
The church was old and grey, with ivy clinging to the walls, and round the porch. [12]
I couldn't shake off that clinging impotence. [5]
The rear portion of the tower has not been neglected, either, but is clothed with a clinging garment of polished ivy which hides the wounds and stains of time. [5]
Her dress was of dark green, of a most delicate shade, and with the clinging softness and texture of velvet. [11]
It seemed almost no time at all before she was at the station again, clinging to Aunt Mary: but now the separation was not so hard, and she had Edith and Mary for company, and George, a dignified and responsible sophomore at Harvard. [9]
They became a little more composed in a short time, and went away, not so much hand in hand as clinging to each other. [12]
Rome, with its leviathan aqueducts, its seething tenements clinging to the hills, its cruel, shining Palatine, must have overborne the provincial traveller coming up from Ostia. [9]
One more moment later a long array of stage-planks was being hauled in, each with its customary latest passenger clinging to the end of it with teeth, nails, and everything else, and the customary latest procrastinator making a wild spring shoreward over his head. [5]
We took our last look at the city, clinging like a whitewashed wasp's nest to the hill-side, and at eight o'clock in the morning departed. [5]
If he trimmed it nicely below, you wouldn't see the roots, he says, and he likes to keep them, and a little of the soil clinging to them. [6]
Thousands of candles in the chandeliers and candelabra diffused a radiance as brilliant as that of day and, confused by the noise and waves of light which surged around her, she had drawn closer to her father, clinging to him for protection. [10]
Likewise meseemed that, in overriding my own fears, I had conquered Ann's; whereas she had been pale and speechless, clinging to the folds of my dress, she now stood forth boldly by my side. [10]
Then I fell ill." She was silent, I clinging to her, and shuddering to think how near I had been to losing her. [9]
Some of the horses were drowned and some of the men; the others tried to swim on, some in the saddle and some clinging to their horses' manes. [2]
Petya, clinging to his legs, kept shouting, "And me too! [2]
The artist had his book ready, and when the little figure was half-way down, clinging in a position at once artistic and painful, he began. [4]
She had imagined her with a wide, drooping hat, with a soft, clinging gown, and a bodice like a great white handkerchief crossed on her breast, holding a basket of flowers, while a King Charles spaniel gambolled at her feet. [11]
When Martsche left her and Els entered, her excitement had risen to such a pitch that she flung herself before her, as if frantic and, clinging to her knees, heaping self-accusations upon herself with passionate impetuosity, she pleaded, amid her sobs, for pardon and mercy. [10]
Five years ago he favored Lexington by making it his home, and he came to us with the laurel of former achievements still clinging to his brow. [9]
Generations of fishermen had looked upon the yellowish-red limestone of the Perce Rock with a valorous eye, but it would seem that not even the tiny clinging hoof of a chamois or wild goat might find a foothold upon the straight sides of it. [11]
Long after he had left her, all down through the outlet to the Pass, the clinging clasp of her arms, the sweetness of her lips, and the sense of a new and exquisite birth of character in her remained hauntingly and thrillingly in his mind. [13]
Ruth breathed more freely when once again in the street and among human beings, and soon, clinging to the hand of her father, who had come to meet her, she entered the house with him and Ulrich. [10]
Pretty hills and forests and temporary summer structures cannot have the poetic or the substantial interest of the ancient villages and towns clinging to the hills, the old stone houses, the vines, the ruins, the atmosphere of a long civilization. [4]
But Farrar, the flannel of his shirt clinging to the muscular outline of his shoulders, gave him a push which sent him sprawling against the lee refrigerator. [9]
And clinging more firmly to the stalactite, Barbara rose on tiptoe and mingled her voice with the joyous cheers of the multitude. [10]
But as her fear was instinctive, so was her clinging to this one and only friend. [13]
Let the fruit fall with the leaves still clinging round it. [3]
The hand we ever loved to clasp, That tireless hand which knew no rest, Loosed from affection's clinging grasp, Lies nerveless on the peaceful breast. [6]
As the sloop drew nearer she made out a bare-headed figure bent tensely at the wheel, and four others clinging to the yellow deck. [9]
And he whirled downward with the little frog-like shape clinging to his neck! [13]
Then, as the curtain swung back, he was seen clinging to the handrail, sputtering and astonished at such treatment. [4]
For a time, clinging with her hands to the uninjured rope, she swayed between heaven and earth. [10]
Her lips were clinging to the infant's forehead. [11]
It is still clinging to one or two things which were useful once, but which are not useful now, neither are they ornamental. [5]
The latter was clinging to his arm, and as he came into the hall removed the broad-brimmed travelling-hat from his brown locks, while dark-skinned Dorippe went behind him and pushed the hesitating youth across the threshold, as a boat is launched into the sea. [10]
I from my clinging babe was rudely torn; His tender lips a loveless bosom pressed Can I forget him in my life new born? [6]
In one noisome cellar, off an alley, among those sorting rags, was an old woman of eighty-two, who could reply to questions only in a jargon, too proud to beg, clinging to life, earning a few cents a day in this foul occupation. [4]
It assisted us, by comparison, to comprehend and appreciate the great depth of the basin --it looked like a tiny martin-box clinging at the eaves of a cathedral. [5]
They were fools, but their folly was fidelity; and if we can win them over to our holy faith they will be faithful unto death, as they have been to their old gods, clinging to Jesus and earning the crown of life. [10]
His knees trembled, but he attributed it to the wind sent by Seth-Typhon, at whose blowing even the strongest felt an invisible burden clinging to their feet. [10]
From top to bottom it is pockmarked by shells and scarred by trenches--trenches every few feet, and between them tangled masses of barbed wire still clinging to the "knife rests" and corkscrew stanchions to which it had been strung. [9]
Her strong, lithe body was straining in my arms, her lips returning my kisses.... Clinging to her hands, I strove to summon my faculties of realization; and I began to speak in broken, endearing sentences. [9]
Amshar was crouching behind Mrs. Falchion, and clinging to her skirts in abject fear. [11]
Then they presently began to come to life again, rousing themselves out of the spell and shaking it off as one drives away little by little a clinging drowsiness or intoxication. [5]
She had now become quiet and, clinging with her little hands to Pierre's coat, sat on his arm gazing about her like some little wild animal. [2]
Huck, being uncommitted as yet, joined in with Tom, and the waverer quickly "explained," and was glad to get out of the scrape with as little taint of chicken-hearted homesickness clinging to his garments as he could. [5]
They make roads as well as tunnels under rivers, and temporary bridges over them, by clinging together. [1]
With the smile and the mockery--somehow significant, too, of an achieved inaccessibility--went the sheen of her clinging gown and the glint of the heavy pearls drooping from her high throat to her waist. [9]
Kit rushes in, and finds his mother clinging round his neck. [12]
His gentle, affectionate and clinging nature made him the darling of both father and mother: Cambyses was treated with consideration by his parents, but their love was for Bartja. [10]
First of all, after leaving the station, you climb through the little town clinging to the hillside; and Honora was struck by the quaint houses and shops which had been places of barter before the Revolution. [9]
But Melissa ran after him, and, clinging to him, cried as she turned first to him and then to her father: "I am promised to Diodoros, and shall hold fast to him and my love; tell him that, Andreas! [10]
Next I met a squad of redcoated guards going to the palace, and after them a grand coach and six rattled over the Scotch granite, swaying to a degree that threatened to shake off the footmen clinging behind. [9]
She fell into a sleep, still clinging to his fingers. [9]
As I turned a shot rang out, Cynthia reared high with a rough brute of a fellow clinging to her bridle. [9]
Suddenly Venters descried a frog-like shape clinging to Wrangle's neck. [13]
He paused for a few low-spoken words with the tawdry constable, who sat down on the banquette after his chief had gone, still clinging to the bridle. [9]

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