"Sticking" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... of Prison in the Holidayes and got away, onely left his hoary hair, and gray beard, sticking between two Iron Bars ...
— A Righte Merrie Christmasse - The Story of Christ-Tide • John Ashton
... cold glance toward his assistants, who, crowding around, with their eyes sticking out of their heads, were listening intently, and ...
— Library of the World's Best Mystery and Detective Stories • Edited by Julian Hawthorne
... of our lives, or the lives of some of them that are underlings in Mansoul, what help will that be to you that are the chief of the town, especially you whom I have set up and whose greatness has been procured by you through your faithful sticking to me? And suppose, again, that he should give quarter to every one of you, be sure he will bring you into that bondage under which you were captivated before, or a worse, and then what good will ...
— The Holy War • John Bunyan
... other signs, to let me understand that I should have meat and drink enough, and very good treatment. Whereupon I once more thought of attempting to break my bonds; but again, when I felt the smart of their arrows upon my face and hands, which were all in blisters, and many of the darts still sticking in them, and observing, likewise, that the number of my enemies increased, I gave tokens to let them know, that they might do with me what they pleased. Upon this the hurgo and his train withdrew, with ...
— Gulliver's Travels - Into Several Remote Regions of the World • Jonathan Swift
... then very thin, weighing not much more than a hundred pounds, was nicely sandwiched between the two portly gentlemen. Every now and then the wagon proceeded a few feet heaving up and down in the most outrageous manner, and finally sticking fast. In this fashion we passed the night. There was in front a seat across the wagon, under which we got our heads, and in spite of our condition the night was spent in ...
— Autobiography of Andrew Carnegie • Andrew Carnegie
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