I clung to a ringbolt for some time, but eventually dropped on to the deck, and a huge wave washed me away. |
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The floor hadn't been cleaned in years and muddy footprints clung to the lino. |
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Rags clung to a frail and bony body, one that did not look like it'd had any nourishment for quite some time. |
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Both boys were uninjured after they clung onto the wall and avoided falling. |
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I smelt the familiar cigarette odour as it attacked my nostrils, and clung on tighter. |
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In so far as they still clung to socialist phraseology, it was simply to give their nationalist programme a more acceptable cover. |
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He dragged open the door with great effort, then clung to its edge with one clenched hand, his body slumped soddenly to one side. |
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Then my mother took a soup spoon, loosened the mass of cream-colored seeds that clung to the cavity and scooped them into the garbage pail. |
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The dress was held up by thin spaghetti straps and the first layer clung to my body, while the top layer flowed elegantly as I moved. |
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She clung to every word, speechless, not daring to breathe until it was over. |
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So he clung on to his draughty vicarage in East Anglia as a man might to a small raft in stormy seas. |
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Moss clung to the rocks and ivy climbed tirelessly, spiralling around the trees. |
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In recent years, he has clung to power as the country's economy spiraled downward and political opposition to his government has grown. |
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What may seem paradoxical to some today is that theologically, Spurgeon tenaciously clung to traditional Calvinism. |
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As if I was somehow oblivious to the fact that he had to pick and dig and drill and scrape away at my tooth as it valiantly clung to my gums. |
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A thick wet mop of dark hair clung to his head, a look of concern fixed onto his handsome face, as he seemed to carefully observe her. |
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Seeing no real hope in any previous upgrades I clung to the software until its recent demise into obsoletism. |
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Once outside he noticed how stickily the air clung to him, and for the first time noted how badly he must have been sweating back there. |
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Pleas for caution and restraint from the minority who still clung to dwindling hopes of agreement were drowned with jeers and catcalls. |
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A strangled laugh escaped her throat as she clung to him tighter, squeezing her eyes shut. |
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The white cloth stretched and clung around the features of her body, yet loosely. |
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After herringboning up the powdery side of Sentinal Dome, we skied over to a rocky outcrop where a scraggly old tree clung to the rocks. |
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Vines with yawning purple flowers clung to the walls, and thick, stumpy trees guarded the back of the house. |
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In practise, this merely meant that I clung tightly to my jungle guide, and wondered for ages whether I had an overdeveloped right thigh muscle. |
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Most of it was covered with her baseball cap, and her overlarge jacket clung to her shoulders. |
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Oblivious, the party bosses clung on, negotiating pacts and deals, blocking any new ideas or initiatives. |
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I clung to Jude, despite his homicidal tendencies as we stumbled through the dark. |
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The few survivors had clung to the vessel for more than two hours before fishing boats rescued them. |
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Sheets from the bed clung to her clammy skin and her forehead was matted in sweat. |
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It clung to the planet like a locust, slowly eating away at the precious minerals until there was nothing left except an empty husk. |
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His fists clenched tighter than they ever had, his arms clung close to his stomach in agony. |
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She didn't say anything, she just clung to him tightly and he pulled her through the water. |
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She clung on like a leech, her fingers tightly gripping his shoulders, and Ben could clearly hear her heart beating as well as his own. |
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He clung on to the staff as tightly as he could, and the combined force of the Crayleks yanked him off his feet. |
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Lidiah's hand caught onto something and she clung on tight whilst squeezing her eyes shut. |
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Suddenly, Nimue put her arms around her and clung to her tightly as if she never wanted to let her go. |
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It was freezing, and Miel clung on to his hand so tightly, he thought it'd break. |
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My hair was drenched and plastered to the sides of my face, and my sopping clothes clung tightly to my shivering body. |
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Slowly, his wings came back onto his body and clung closely against his back, letting it sink in. |
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The miniscule scraps of wet fabric clung desperately to her as she stepped onto the deck. |
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Her hair clung to her face as she stood on her balcony watching the rain fall around her. |
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As well, a light solid green kimono hung loosely on her body as a large blue waistband clung firmly to her body. |
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A couple gave him an odd look at the sagging clothes that clung desperately to his drenched body. |
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His black button-down shirt clung gently to his hard chest, and I could automatically tell that he was completely ripped. |
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The clothes clung closely to her slender body, lending her the uneasy feeling of exposure. |
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She continued walking, ignoring her hair plastered to her face, the way her clothes clung uncomfortably to her body. |
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I began to see clearly how depression had clung close to the outer edges of my life for many years. |
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He clung close to his father's arm, gazing wide-eyed around him all the while. |
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He noticed that since the tournament, the blond woman clung even closer to her lover. |
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We clung close together, but far apart enough to steer clear of the torch and so we could easily draw our weapons. |
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The dark elf seemed ill at ease among the buildings, and clung close to One Nine's shaggy thigh. |
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Aurora clung even closer to Nathan after the encounter with Sylvia, and Ella's eyes seemed to smolder with jealousy. |
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Instead he clung closer to Stephanie until the quaking had subsided and the hail of debris had ceased. |
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In trying to stave off this fate of being dated, he has clung desperately to remaining youthful. |
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Politicians have clung long and hard to the convenient concept of health promotion, which asserts that illness is primarily self inflicted. |
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The present ministerial team at the Ministry of Defence has clung stoically to the traditional line that the negligence verdict was correct. |
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So it was to their mother, Margaret Marie Bragg, that the Bragg boys clung for emotional and physical nurturing. |
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The ice rippled over the surface of the water, a thin layer that clung to the sides of Morgana's face and circled her wrist. |
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The five rescued people had clung to plastic drums which the boat used as fenders. |
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Beads of water clung in rows to the broad leaves of fern and pillows of moss. |
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Sores festered on her face and arms and a terrible stench clung to the air surrounding her. |
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He dabbed her fevered brow with the edge of his tunic that clung wetly to his broad chest. |
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Yet Brayton clung to them as long as any conceivable argument could be made for them. |
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They had clung to each other for warmth through the night, with Michael flashing his torch into the darkness at intervals. |
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Lisa Morgan, 30, a legal secretary from Chatham, Kent, clung to a tree for six hours, surrounded by human corpses and dead animals. |
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Howard's mind clung to her voice as a drowning man clings to a piece of flotsam from a ship-wreck. |
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We walked on and on, yet I felt no weariness, just a little discomfort as the filth that clung to me began to harden into a crust. |
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Her shirt clung to her petit frame, causing the skin to prickle and become clammy. |
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But he claimed the next two sets before Safin broke in the fourth game of the decider and clung on for victory. |
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When the going got really tough he clung to the fact he was realising not only his own dream, but that of his father. |
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He had clung to it when times seemed desperate and hopeless, but he had refused to think he and his sisters deserved what they got. |
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The lines in the dirt clung to his heels, not with the delicate gossamer of a spider's threads, but with the thick grume of sucking mud. |
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As the ceremony unfolded, grief-stricken relatives clung to each other for support inside a specially erected marquee. |
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We clung to a wire fence while wind-blown sand stung our faces and we tried to keep grit and dust out of our eyes. |
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Rumors of dirty dealings had always clung to him, but Nixon had always managed to keep substantive proof of corruption out of the media. |
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At 5.20 pm we watched as, wearing full scuba gear, he clung to the guard rail and the ship crashed beneath the waves. |
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Washington clung doggedly to the gold standard despite the disastrously deflationary effect of this policy. |
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They smiled exuberantly while mud clung to their hair in clumps, lined the crevices of their ears, nostrils, the rims of their helmets. |
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A few teardrops clung to her eyelashes and her hair had fallen into her face and stuck to her cheeks. |
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Slowly she raised a thin hand to her face and swiped at the rain that clung to her hair and eyelashes. |
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Despite their doubts these men clung precariously to some idea of God, unwilling to jettison Him altogether. |
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I clung onto a verandah post with a guy with a beard and while the water was raging all around us we clung onto each other. |
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His clothes clung to him and raindrops trickled down from his soaked hair into his eyes and face. |
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Her soaked hair clung to her pale white face, her clothes adhered to her frail body, and her eyes were shut. |
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A white archway, over which clung coiling whorls of the vines, gave passage through the hedge. |
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The two vessels clung together for less than a minute before the Umpire heeled to port and went down. |
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Suds from the soapy sponge he used to clean the floor clung to his sleeves and nestled in his wiry black hair. |
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Some small remnant of the fever must have clung to her, for she tossed and turned for hours before giving in to a light and unrefreshing sleep. |
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Her yukata was large on her, but still clung to her curves where the obi tied around her waist. |
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Exhaustion was dragging at her as the grate of the panel sounded, but she clung to that thought, stumbling forward. |
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Ultimately, however, power clung to the warrior classes and to the lords with their own private retinues. |
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Ivy climbed the walls of the gardens, and rose trellises clung to everything, adorning the trees. |
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It seemed incredible that anything could live here, but different-coloured lichens clung to the rocks and gave them their sunset tones. |
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She clung to her seat like a life preserver and hardly knew what to do when the drunken Frenchman beside her was tossed out onto the grass. |
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Even his hair and teeth clung to their roots, unlike the others who suffered from malnutrition. |
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He hugged her again, and she clung to him as if he was a raft in a rough sea. |
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In those pre-Watergate years, a certain air of roughish disrepute still clung to journalists as a species. |
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But they clung to their plan and carried on without constitutional approval and parliamentary assent. |
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I clung onto bits of ice and tried desperately to remove the harness attaching me to the sledge. |
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Pieces of spaghetti, lumps of bread, smears of butter, fruit and other random food particles clung to the walls and stuck to the tabletops. |
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A 23-year-old woman from Indonesia clung to a floating sago palm tree in the ocean before being rescued by a Malaysian ship. |
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The very means by which the dictator had clung to power, his legendary savagery, had destroyed his internal support. |
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Looking as if she was about to explode, teardrops clung stubbornly to her eyelashes throughout, giving her a somewhat manic, glazed look. |
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Classmates said that he had a terrible temper that easily flared, and that he clung to people far too easily and became jealous and angry. |
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Dark green ivy snaked up the sides of the walls and clung tenaciously to the crumbling brickwork. |
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The final result of the general election was declared yesterday as Labour clung on to the marginal seat of Harlow by just 97 votes. |
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The rare few that still survived clung on at the edge of society, scratching a living from what little they could find in their woodland domains. |
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Adam clung for a moment to the saddle leathers while he got what his father would have called his sea legs. |
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His black hair was matted with grime and clung to his scalp in ungainly tufts. |
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I would have clung to his every word, followed him everywhere, grasped those truths that so often got lost on the thick-skulled apostles. |
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The dress of fine material clung to her curvy figure as if it were part of her skin. |
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A guerrilla soldier clung stubbornly to our clothesline pole, his foot trapped in the maw of my father's security dog, a Ridgeback. |
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Lucie wore a black velvet pinafore, black tights and a dark purple jacket and she clung to her father's hand throughout the entire ceremony. |
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In recent issues, I have clung to my bearish outlook but gingerly hinted that a tilt to the bullish side of the ledger was in the offing. |
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His clothes clung to his muscular frame and goosebumps ran over his entire body. |
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Kwenn clung on even tighter, but could barely see through the thick smoke belching from the ship. |
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Pension obligations were ballooning, while management clung to a top-heavy bureaucracy and its sprawling mills gobbled up cash for repairs. |
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All of them sensed the palpable miasma of evil which clung to its tunnels, though some were more sensitive to it than others. |
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He could feel the tiny micro movements in her fingers as she clung onto his back lovingly. |
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The rest of the class graduated to the deep end, while I hung around the shallows or clung to the side of the pool. |
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Soaked clothes hung shapelessly on our frames, and drenched locks of hair clung to our foreheads and faces. |
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Long brown hair straight to her shoulders, black go-go boots and a sheath dress all in lavender clung to her too slim body. |
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She had lots of friends, but she clung on to her big sister Samantha, who she idolised. |
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On that day Couples' tee-shot to Golden Bell, the treacherous par three, clung miraculously to the bank of the Creek. |
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Barth clung to his bit of splintered wood, it bit into his arms and fingers, his eyes were open but turned inwards. |
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He didn't like him one bit, the way he clung to Asha and acted as her protector, while making moony eyes whenever he saw her. |
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Henderson earned his corn with a blinding save from Terriers dangerman Chris Brandon as City clung precariously to their lead. |
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With the camera in tow, Victoria simpered and clung to her husband with a tenacity that spoke well for his patience. |
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He clung tighter to Alan, mortally afraid his friend and beloved would try and abandon him. |
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He covered her with the moth-eaten blankets and the stale smell of the room clung to the walls and to her. |
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Margaret reluctantly lifted up her hand, still covered in the blood-soaked napkin that clung to her skin. |
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The conversion was blown off course and the Dalesmen clung onto a two-point lead. |
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On the flight up we clung to the Indus gorge as huge peaks hemmed us in. |
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Also trembling, she clung closer to what I guessed was her older brother. |
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A dribble of saliva clung to his chin, but he didn't seem to mind. |
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The older girl slipped in and began to remove her jacket, taking a pause to shake her head free of snowflakes, though only in vain as they clung to her flaming hair. |
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Earlier British attempts to adopt the meter, such as that of Sir Philip Sidney, failed only because they clung to the quantitative system of classical prosody. |
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Five years on, she was driven out of the office that she had clung to. |
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Its activists have clung to the sides of oil tankers to make a point. |
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A knitted shawl clung to her shoulders and covered her bosom modestly. |
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Kina continued riffling through the box, extracting song, poems, pieces of the past she'd never throw away despite the pain and resentment that clung to them. |
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The children clung together under the little umbrella waiting for the storm to pass. |
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Darion found Bonnie on her balcony the next night, playing moodily with a moonflower off the vine that clung in an intricate arrangement around the French doors leading out. |
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There was no head, and a few shreds of clothing clung to the bones of the ribcage. |
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The Truth could not be revealed to those who clung stubbornly to material values and had not abandoned themselves entirely to the Spiritual World. |
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France, in particular, clung to the Gaullist illusion of its singularity and remained aloof to close trans-Atlantic ties. |
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The resultant compound resembled a black paste, which clung glutinously to everything it touched and emitted a characteristic odour reminiscent of a cattle-market. |
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The white fluffy towel clung tightly to his slim hips as he wandered through the men, leaning to touch the heads or stroke the shoulders of some of them. |
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She was dressed in a long, silver dress that clung to her form. |
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Similarly, unlike many of their continental European neighbours, the English clung to corporal punishment as a penal sanction until well into the twentieth century. |
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Marta clung close to Dan's side when not required to be elsewhere. |
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He whinnied for his lost mother all that first day and night, blubbering in the corner of the pasture, and he clung to his resentment as he grew into a half-ton adolescent. |
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The dank miasma of the marsh, clung with a mucid dullness round my frame. |
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It was study hall, some abnormally cold day in April where some threat of snow still clung to the weather forecast, and the last period of the proper school day. |
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In defense, embattled slaveholders clung ever more fiercely to a paternalistic rhetoric that posited slaves as inherently inferior and permanently dependent. |
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And the sleuth-hounds of the law, the paid fighting animals of society, with telephone, and telegraph, and special train, clung to his trail night and day. |
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I clung on tightly to my seven weights while others dropped their three. |
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Nevertheless, many evangelicals and High Churchmen still clung to the literal view of Genesis because it was exegetically the soundest interpretation. |
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Celinda was thankful for the rescue and clung on to him tightly. |
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Mont Blanc is just 13 km from Les Droites, the peak on which Andrew doggedly clung to life for five days in sub-zero temperatures after becoming trapped in a storm. |
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The cottage door had been newly painted but, in the grey of the afternoon, the bedraggled vines that clung to the brickwork gave the place an air of neglect. |
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But her paranoia still clung to her like suckerfish would do to a shark. |
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I clung to a crosspiece between two beams, to catch my breath. |
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The film-makers have clung sentimentally to the sweet, silly formula that made the original series an enduring favorite for more than 33 years after its debut. |
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First they clung to each other, then they erupted into tears and broad smiles as they hugged mothers and fathers on the tarmac of Tokyo's Haneda airport. |
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Limp and trembling, she clung to my neck as we sprinted past the beachhead fray. |
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Children cried and clung to their fathers, begging them not to go. |
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Sierra had clung to life for seven weeks before finally succumbing to her wound. |
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But Kate has clung to her middle-class roots and middle-class ideas of child-rearing defiantly. |
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With more than 88 percent of precincts reporting, Hanna clung to a six-point lead. |
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Unlike every other island in the region that abandoned sugar production generations ago, St. Kitts clung to it until recently. |
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His arms clung to Roselyn's hips, their bodies welded together. |
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Up to his death, he clung to Verwoerdian apartheid ideology. |
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But then today, as I was standing in the kitchen doing the dishes, he suddenly clung to my legs and whimpered in the same way as when he had seen the fire. |
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Most commoners tried to get as close to the protective ramparts as possible, building houses that clung to the steep sides of the Yantra gorges like molluscs on a rock. |
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Yet many proponents of universal suffrage were just as deluded, in their own way, as the Adullamites who clung to their rotten boroughs as if civilisation depended on them. |
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He clung to me, and I clung to him until the family had to pry us apart. |
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Her voice chilled him farther than her hands did, hissing like dried ice and dying smoke as it wreathed over his head and sucked into his mouth and clung damp to his lungs. |
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As curly-locked James clung 20-ft from the ground he had no idea of the commotion he had caused by wriggling out of a roof window at his Windermere home on to the roof tiles. |
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It clung to its intellectual prestige for much longer, with sporadic revivals under Hellenophile emperors of Rome. |
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The native dress clung to her limbs in sculpturable lines, and her consecrated ambitions seemed more insistent than ever. |
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The Portuguese refused to read the writings on the wall and clung to their colonies, including the one in India. |
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Her gown clung damply to her body, clearly revealing her callipygian curves and the entire shapely length of her legs. |
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Tiggy Wiggy made a bold bid from the front and clung on for third, just ahead of Malabar. |
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He clung to me like a chimpanzee baby with all four of his weakened limbs. |
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Thick cakes of mud Like parathas clung to our boots, and we killed each wireworm singly, If the clodhopping robin didn't pick it off first. |
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The first run, I just clung to the fence as the bulls passed. |
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As I clung to the shagbark hickory like a cocklebur on Polarfleece, a deer passed within feet of me. |
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Just so, the Romney campaign has tenaciously clung to financial privacy. |
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A woman scuttled towards MacDonald, raising a knife in a hand where fragments of deerflesh clung. |
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They clung passionately to his doctorishness, believing it to be safe. It wasn't safe at all. |
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I threw myself upon my face, and clung to the scant herbage in an excess of nervous agitation. |
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Milton, however, stubbornly clung to the beliefs that had originally inspired him to write for the Commonwealth. |
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She had worn a soft, sheer malmal sari to sleep in for the night. It clung to her body, enticing his eyes. |
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The new distillation method was scoffed at by some Irish distillers, who clung to their traditional pot stills. |
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The cult of Cybele, which for the first time formally organized as a mystic society in Rome, but the orgiast frenzy clung to it at all times. |
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In Greater Poland the middle class and part of the local gentry clung pertinaciously to Lutheranism. |
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King Frederick William III of Prussia and Emperor Francis II of Austria barely clung to their thrones. |
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Yet, all these approaches clung to a view of stable functionalism, with kinship as one of the central stable institutions. |
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They unhesitatingly killed those who clung to the old faith, sometimes after incredible tortures. |
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Those without the work ethic clung to the theodicy of misfortune, believing wealth and happiness were granted in the afterlife. |
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Now, upon his whole person, from the crown of his unkempt head down to his broken, dusty boots, there yet clung that air of jaunty, devil-may-care rakishness. |
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In fact, I congratulate our super sudser for raising its game on Sunday, when 19 million of us clung to our couches as the woman was Cell Block H-ed for the duration. |
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And there was, to dulcify for her the bath of this evening, the yet sharper contrast with the plight she had just come home in, sopped, shivering, clung to by her clothes. |
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I clung to her nipples as she soared and swooped through the gloaming, scooping up insects, and I remember the shapes of things that she flew between, above, beneath. |
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A square seat, about as wide and unyielding as a table-top, was strapped securely to each donkey, and to this seat we clung, with no secureness at all. |
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By appearing in uniform, Jackson was able to convey his strong character through these images. Jackson had seized on one element of the Washingtonian myth and clung to it. |
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Scungy atolls of fur clung to the pleats of his polished carcass. |
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Holmes clung to the side of the Duke's carriage, while Huskisson made two efforts to run across the track to safety, each time returning to the side of the carriage. |
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They operated small farms and clung to their historic traditions. |
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The two men served a pair of love games as Federer led 4-3 while Murray wasted two break points in the ninth game as the six-time champion clung on for a 5-4 advantage. |
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