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Cling

verb

(past & past part. clung, obs. clong; pres. part. clinging)

Come or be in close contact with; stick or hold together and resist separation. Synonyms: adhere, cleave, cohere, stick. "The label stuck to the box" , "The sushi rice grains cohere"

To remain emotionally or intellectually attached.

Hold on tightly or tenaciously. Synonym: hang. "The child clung to his mother's apron"

noun

Fruit (especially peach) whose flesh adheres strongly to the pit. Synonym: clingstone.

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"Cling" Quotes from Famous Books

... putative father was a myth scarcely appeased him. But Paul's timely demonstration, by relating the scene he had witnessed of Judge Baker's infelicitous memory, that the secret was likely to be revealed at any moment, and that if the girl continued to cling to her theory, as he feared she would, even to the parting with her fortune, they would be forced to accept it, or be placed in the hideous position of publishing her disgrace, at last convinced him. On the other hand, there was less danger of her POSITIVE imposition being discovered ...

— A Ward of the Golden Gate • Bret Harte

... rise and walk across the room. The lightness of her heart spoke in her laughter. A fortnight had elapsed since the recurrence of any nervous attack. The thought that her mother was again all her own and would ever cling to her had proved remedy enough. At first distrust had rankled in her mind; while letting Helene kiss her she had remained uneasy at her least movement, and had imperiously besought her hand before she fell asleep, anxious ...

— A Love Episode • Emile Zola

... showed herself abroad, in her care for Kirstie's cheerfulness she persuaded the girl to take a short walk every morning through the village. In truth Kirstie hated it. More and more as her mistress clung to her she grew to cling to her mistress; it seemed as if they two were in partnership against the world, and the part of protector which she played so watchfully and courageously for her years took its revenge upon her. For what makes a child so engaging as his ...

— Two Sides of the Face - Midwinter Tales • Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch

... her heart that night to Adrian Gilbert, with a frankness which she would hardly have dared to use to her own family. Perhaps it was that Adrian, like his great brothers, Humphrey and Raleigh, was a man full of all lofty and delicate enthusiasms, tender and poetical, such as women cling to when their hearts are lonely; but so it was; and Adrian, half ashamed of his own ambitious dreams, sate looking at her a ...

— Westward Ho! • Charles Kingsley

... thing which was sweet to her taste or desirable in her esteem. Because she was his heiress he had no right to make her his slave. But even should he do so, she had in her own hands a certain security. The bondage of a slave no doubt he might allot to her, but not the task-work. Because she would cling to her duty and keep the promise which she had made to him, it would be in his power to prevent the marriage upon which she had set her heart; but it was not within his power, or within his privilege as a father, to force upon her any other marriage. She would never help him with her ...

— Sir Harry Hotspur of Humblethwaite • Anthony Trollope

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