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Sentences ending with clung

In a world of impending chaos the brilliantly lighted office was a tiny refuge to which she clung. [9]
There was surely no subterfuge in her tone, but an unreal, unbelievable note which his senses seized, and to which he clung. [9]

Short sentences using clung

Jane clung on, spurring likewise. [13]
She clung to him. [9]
She clung to him. [13]

Sentences containing clung two or more times

Jane had not spoken since Venters had shocked her with his first harsh speech; but all the way she had clung to his arm, and now, as he stopped and laid his rifle against the bench, she still clung to him. [13]

More example sentences with the word clung in them

But as the zigzag flash of lightning had just been followed by the peal of thunder, she clung to him, earnestly beseeching him not to leave her. [10]
But when he would have taken it away, the little hand still clung, though the eyes were scarce opened upon life. [11]
Yet, though the word fame had long been embittered to him, the inhumanity which clung to his deeds had the least share in it. [10]
The prelate's white woollen morning-robe clung closely around his stately figure. [10]
A doorway, closed with light curtains, opened on to a long balcony with a finely-worked balustrade of copper-gilt, to which clung a climbing rose with pink flowers. [10]
It is honeycombed with dugouts in which the Germans who clung to it found their graves, while the victorious British army swept around it toward Bapaume. [9]
In all his wild life he had been true to me, and he had clung to me stanchly in this, my greatest peril. [9]
Agatha's eyes opened widely when Melissa told her anything good about her brother, and she clung in terror to her new friend as she heard of her excited orgy with her lover. [10]
The man to whom her heart clung, the Emperor, the countless multitude below, were all at this time subject to her in heart and mind. [10]
It was Philippus who had persuaded his accomplished and experienced friend to come to Memphis; he had clung to him faithfully, and they assisted each other in their works. [10]
Those of us who had clung to hope lost it then. [9]
All but Jack, who changed all other articles of his dress, but clung to his traveling pantaloons. [5]
The clay, still wet, clung to the same board as the figure of the soldier, modeled by the same hand. [10]
The two men were not hauled in, for the gale was blowing too hard, but they clung to the rescuing skiff. [11]
Fresh green life was springing from the stump of every dead tree; even the rocks afforded sustenance to a hundred roots, a mossy covering and network of thorny tendrils clung closely to them. [10]
The man's guilt was freely believed; not even the few who clung to the opinion that Charley Steele would yet get him off thought that he was innocent. [11]
His faithful friend's warnings and entreaties did not leave Orion unmoved; but he clung to his determination, representing to Nilus that he had pledged his word to Rufinus, and could not now draw back, though he had already lost all his pleasure in the enterprise. [10]
The water was very cold; he clung to a cotton bale--mainly with his teeth--and floated until nearly exhausted, when he was rescued by some deck hands who were on a piece of the wreck. [5]
Melissa drew her veil closer and clung more tightly to her brother, for a sound of singing and wild cries, which she had heard behind her for some time, was now coming closer. [10]
For more than twenty years after leaving college he had clung to a clerkship in a Dolton mercantile establishment before he felt justified in marrying Hannah, the daughter of Elmer Wench, when the mercantile establishment amalgamated with a rival--and Edward's services were no longer required. [9]
That done, she turned to the old man with a lovely smile upon her face--such, they said, as they had never seen, and never could forget--and clung with both her arms about his neck. [12]
The face would turn towards me, and the momentary illusion would pass away, but still the fancy clung to me. [6]
Her lithe body trembled convulsively, her cheeks were wet as she clung to him and hid her face in his shoulder. [9]
We saw Emily torn from the midst of us when our hearts clung to her with intense attachment. [14]
A faithful heart too; how she clung to her father! [10]
But she clung too dearly to life to carry this horrible project into execution. [10]
Never, never, she told herself, would she enter a hotel again alone; and when at last he came she clung to him with a passion that thrilled him the more because he could not understand it. [9]
I have clung to them as long as I can, and in throwing them over I don't know where I shall land. [9]
So Dido clung to the literal sense of her master's question, and something note-worthy had actually happened in the kitchen. [10]
When he began to recover, the faithful fellow clung to her with the utmost devotion; but this by no means lessened his love for his master and his absent sweetheart. [10]
I still clung to my lover's arm and entreated him to take me to speak with Junker Henning, inasmuch as I sorely wanted to question him; but the Junker diligently kept far from us. [10]
But I clung to my affability. [9]
But he clung to it with toes and fingers, like a fly. [5]
He had clung to it as a drowning man clings to a spar. [11]
So she clung to him and let him lift up her head and kiss her eyes and then her mouth, and that not once, no, but many a time and again, and so long that I, a sixteen-year-old maid, was in truth affrighted. [10]
Now he clung to her with a desperation that was terrible, as though to let go of her would be to fall into nameless voids beyond human companionship and love. [9]
Its head clung to her waist. [11]
The philosopher motioned to her to follow him, but she clung, as if seeking help, to her brother, and cried: "I will not go again to Caracalla! [10]
And he clung to her the more desperately--as though by crushing her peradventure he might capture it. [9]
And I tried to get rid of the fool; but no, he clung to me, imploring me to save him from the assassin. [5]
We now began to creep along flimsy bridges of a single plank, our persons shielded from destruction by a crazy wooden railing, to which I clung with both hands--not because I was afraid, but because I wanted to. [5]
I was able to bear their reproaches with the superior good nature that springs from success, to point out why the American tradition to which they so fatuously clung was a things of the past. [9]
For a short time Erasmus found no answer to this statement, and Wolf's old nurse, who herself clung to the Protestants from complete conviction, and had listened attentively to his words, urged her young co-religionist, by all sorts of signs, to respect his friend's decision. [10]
Nevertheless she clung tightly to Peter's arm as they walked down Locust Street and came in sight of the wall. [9]
Nothing daunted by this reception, he clung tight to his opponent, and bit and hammered away with such good-will and heartiness, that it was at least a couple of minutes before he was dislodged. [12]
I clung to the under branches of the oak, finally reached the shelving bank, and slid down slowly. [9]
The shadows of the tall trunks lay in transparent bars on the underbrush, luxuriant moss, and ferns, and the dew clung to the weeds and grass. [10]
By and by the stony foot of the great University will plant itself on this whole territory, and the private recollections which clung so tenaciously and fondly to the place and its habitations will have died with those who cherished them. [6]
Hodder clung to the shell of reality, to the tiny panorama of the visible and the finite, to the infinitesimal gropings that lay recorded before him on the printed page. [9]
She had clung the rest of her days to the house in which I had been born. [9]
Yet the esteem, the love of the man to whom her heart clung, whom she worshipped with all the fervour of her passionate soul, might be at stake, and when he now seized his hat to withdraw she barred his way. [10]
She sprang from the litter and alighted on the ground with both feet at once, clung firmly to the door, and haughtily flung back her head, crowned with a wealth of dark locks. [10]
We clung to the hours and the minutes, counting them as they wasted away, and parting with them with that pain and bereavement which a miser feels who sees his hoard filched from him coin by coin by robbers and is helpless to prevent it. [5]
They hung to the horses's tails, clung to their manes and the stirrups, closed in on every aide in scorn of dangerous hoofs--and out of their infidel throats, with one accord, burst an agonizing and most infernal chorus: "Howajji, bucksheesh! [5]
And she deduced the essentials of his wishes quite correctly, and having once arrived at them clung to them tenaciously. [2]
She had noticed the entrance of the visitors, and when she opened her sparkling blue eyes and saw the person to whom her poor heart clung with insatiable yearning they were filled with a sunny radiance, and a smile hovered round her lips. [10]
He clung to the couch like a shattered wretch; and when his father turned his eyes on him and gasped out: "Then the Court--our Court of justice pronounced an unrighteous sentence? [10]
He remembered now that, when he was drowning, he had clung to Jopp with frenzied arms and had endangered the bully's life also. [11]
Then it appeared that there were fifteen of the latter among the liberated prisoners and, to Ephraim's special delight, Reuben, the husband of poor melancholy Milcah, who clung so closely to Miriam. [10]
True, he knew that he was capable of fidelity, for he clung to his friends with changeless loyalty, and was ready to make any sacrifice in their behalf. [10]
Dada clung in terror to Marcus, who was beginning to be seriously alarmed for her when, looking round for aid or refuge, he caught sight of his brother forcing his way through the throng, and gesticulating vehemently. [10]
I still clung tenaciously to the belief that there were no relationships wholly unaffected by worldly triumphs, and as Senator I should have strengthened my position. [9]
Though my head swam, I clung doggedly to my text. [9]
Balbilla wanted to spring out of the chariot, but Claudia clung tightly to her and conjured her not to leave her in the lurch in the midst of the danger. [10]
Covered with dust, splashed from head to foot with mud, bruised, tortured as if on the rack, he clung to the saddle, yet never ceased to use whip and spur, and would trust his message to no other horseman. [10]
At first he sought to free himself, but she clung to it with all the strength of her love,--yet she did not look up at him. [9]
Sonya, shaking off some down which clung to her and tucking away the verses in the bosom of her dress close to her bony little chest, ran after Natasha down the passage into the sitting room with flushed face and light, joyous steps. [2]
His heart belonged solely to Katterle, but towards Eva he obeyed the old trait inherent in his nature, and clung with the same loyalty hitherto evinced for his master to her whom he now regarded as his future mistress. [10]
An abundance of soft, but disordered reddish fair hair, in which clung a few withered flowers, fell over the lap of the old woman and on to the mat where she lay. [10]
And Cynthia thought so too, as she clung to Jethro's arm between the carriages and the clanging street-cars, and looked upon the riches and poverty around her. [9]
Along Faber Street, singly or in little groups, anxiously glancing around them, behind them, came the workers who still clung desperately to their jobs. [9]
But now, as she clung to his arm, the rider's costume she wore did not contradict, as it had done at first, his feeling of her femininity. [13]
And then, while she clung to him, her head was raised to listen. [9]
Sonya too, all rosy red, clung to his arm and, radiant with bliss, looked eagerly toward his eyes, waiting for the look for which she longed. [2]
They may have recognized their kinship to him, for he could climb like any squirrel, and not one of them could have clung more securely to this bough where he was swinging, rejoicing in the strength of his lithe, compact little body. [4]
Prominent among the qualities contributing to his success was open-mindedness, "a willingness to be shown," to scrap machinery when his competitors still clung to older methods. [9]
Mandane kicked the purse away, rushed after the carriage and clung to it firmly. [10]
He would have preferred to pass her unnoticed, but she had clung to his arm and was trying, with coaxing graciousness, to soften his indignation by gaily relating how she had come here and what had detained her and her companions. [10]
We buried the poor fellow in the alien ground, for he did not die in the Church, and after that my daughter clung to Mrs. Clive. [9]
A sweat broke out on his forehead, his lips clung to his teeth, his mouth was dry, his breast seemed to contract, and breathing hurt him. [11]
For an instant only she clung to Janet, then becoming mute, she sat down in the kitchen chair and stared with dry, unseeing eyes at the wall. [9]
There was only one decent thing which still clung to him in rags and tatters--the fact that he was a Frenchman. [11]
She had clung on to the settlers, and they could not shake her off. [11]
Have not you often and often clung about her like a bur? [10]
Over this part of the route were occasional remains of an old Roman road like the Appian Way, whose paving-stones still clung to their places with Roman tenacity. [5]
The subtle germ of the malady, he said, clung to everything; every fragment of stuff which had been touched by the plague-stricken was especially fitted to carry the infection and disseminate the disease. [10]
He was conscious of that perfume which clung to whatever she touched. [11]
Three little spheres of soft phosphorescent light appeared on the ceiling directly over my head, clung and glowed there a moment, and then dropped --two of them upon my face and one upon the pillow. [5]
You, the friend of Orange, have just declared that you did not grudge any man the faith to which he clung, and I will not doubt it. [10]
The bricklayer's mortar of his father's calling stuck to his fingers through life, but only as the soil he turned with his ploughshare clung to the fingers of Burns. [6]
How many billions of blind, struggling creatures clung to them? [9]
Still, he could not bear to repulse this struggling young author, who clung to him with such pretty simplicity and trustfulness. [5]
Sometimes he did not appear at breakfast, although Honora clung with desperation to the hour they had originally fixed: sometimes Mr. Manning waited for him until nearly ten o'clock, only to receive curt dismissal. [9]
She clung to my hand a moment. [9]
She had clung more closely to him than the woman to whom he owed his life, for his mother had deserted him to take the veil in the convent of the Sisters of St. Clare, but her maid-servant Ursel would not part from him. [10]
Nay and she might have done so if the little thing had not clung round my neck with its right arm that had no hurt, as lovingly as though it had been mine own and no kin to the shrieking old woman. [10]
And in the midst of this mad struggle stood Agne with her little brother, who clung closely to her skirts and was too terrified to shed a tear or utter a cry. [10]
I ran to meet her, and now, as she clung to me first and then to my aunt, she was so moving a spectacle that even Uhlwurm wiped his wet cheeks with his finger-cloth. [10]
She clung to me, she would not go, and I had to be--cruel. [9]
Strange as it may seem, these words of a withered old creature, whose palm had to be crossed with silver to bring forth her oracular response, have always clung to my memory as if they were destined to fulfilment. [6]

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