Clinging Sentence Examples

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  • She wiped away the pine needles clinging to her clothes.

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  • The girl giggled, clinging tighter to his arm.

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  • She gasped, clinging desperately to the whip.

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  • Taran accepted it, once again unsettled by the darkness clinging to the book.

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  • 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.

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  • The window overlooked the neighboring mountain, coated in white with clouds clinging to its peak.

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  • You think I'm a regular clinging vine, don't you?

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  • The frightened fox scampered away as fast as it could; and Aristomenes followed, clinging to its tail.

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  • For garden purposes loam should be rather unctuous or soapy to the touch when moderately dry, not too clinging nor adhesive, and should readily crumble when a compressed handful is thrown on the ground.

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  • When Len walked in, she was on her knees, clinging to the stool.

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  • Brandon was all but clinging to his cousin, whose gray eyes were taking in the group uneasily.

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  • It is exceedingly picturesque, the villages clinging to the sides of the mountain glens from which water is drawn for irrigation; and excellent fruit is grown.

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  • In the European species of Sitaris and Meloe these little larvae have the instinct of clinging to any hairy object.

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  • Clinging to her hairs they are carried to the nest, where they bore into the body of a bee or wasp larva, and after a moult become soft-skinned legless maggots.

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  • Reinach (Revue archeologique, 1903), Tantalus was represented in a picture standing in a lake and clinging to the branches of a tree, which gave rise to the idea that he was endeavouring to pluck its fruit.

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  • A carload of drovers, too, in the midst, on a level with their droves now, their vocation gone, but still clinging to their useless sticks as their badge of office.

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  • 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.

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  • I woke to sunlight and my wife clinging to me with an intensity that hurt.

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  • In a moment she was clinging to him, rewarding his hungry kisses with promises she didn't intend to keep.

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  • Princess followed Ed up the steep trail with an eager stride that kept Carmen clinging to the saddle horn.

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  • Once they came near to the enclosed Garden of the Clinging Vines, and walking high into the air looked down upon it with much interest.

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  • A camisole can create a smooth appearance under your clothing and prevent your clothes from clinging to your body.

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  • Worn underneath tops, dresses and other garments, slips smooth out bulges, project sleeker images, and prevent clothes from clinging.

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  • The beauty of wearing clothing constructed of stretchy textiles, particularly for full-figured women, is that it moves with the body and caresses every curve to create a sensual, sexy look without clingingto unsightly bulges.

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  • Anxiety, demonstrated by crying, clinging, and turning away from the stranger, is revealed when separation occurs.

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  • Vinegar and other acidic substances are used to neutralize jellyfish nematocysts still clinging to the skin, which are then scraped off.

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  • Very often, these children show signs of anxiety, such as difficulty separating from parents, moodiness, clinging behavior, inflexibility, sleep problems, frequent tantrums and crying, and extreme shyness starting in infancy.

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  • They can also regress to behaviors such as thumb sucking, bed wetting, temper tantrums, and clinging to a favorite blanket or toy.

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  • Their claws are adapted for clinging to hair or clothing.

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  • In turn the infant responds with snuggling, babbling, smiling, sucking, and clinging.

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  • The shorts dry easier than most swimsuits and do so without clinging.

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  • If you don't want all eyes on your midriff, a tankini with an A-line top will flare out and away from your body instead of clinging to your middle.

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  • Atlee was swept away and later confirmed dead, but Petra managed to survive the ordeal by clinging to a palm tree for over eight hours.

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  • The image of the frog clinging gently to the skin by itself, or hiding in the branches of a larger tree tattoo is sure to make you smile.

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  • For the best illusion of the frog gently clinging to you, include some dropped shadow below one side of the frog.

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  • Other wall clinging varieties grow in patches on the pool's sides and bottom and can cover these areas entirely.

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  • If your pool has clinging algae brush any areas on the sides and bottom of the pool that have visible algae growth.

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  • Aggressive brushing is necessary to loosen and remove the clinging organisms.

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  • First, if there is loose rust clinging to your carpet fibers you will want to remove it before applying any type of cleaning solution.

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  • The simplest method of cleaning is to use a long-handled wire scrub brush to scrape off any particles of food to still clinging to the grill.

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  • There simply isn't enough fabric to work with to create the necessary shaping and tension at the joints to keep the stockings firmly clinging to the flesh as it moves.

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  • Is it possible to find underwear that stays undetectable under clinging clothing?

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  • Oasis demonstrated that same desire to abandon the industrial claws of Manchester and explore their potential, whilst clinging intensely to their northern identities.

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  • His mind, in spite of its clinging to the outward forms of the old faith, was intensely secular; and he was as devoid of a moral sense as he was of a genuine religious temperament.

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  • In brief, the five aggregates of clinging (that is, the conditions of individuality) are painful.

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  • It is situated on the shore of the Hallstatter-see and at the foot of the Hallstatter Salzberg, and is built in amphitheatre with its houses clinging to the mountain side.

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  • This has only been possible owing to the temper of the Oriental mind which, while clinging tenaciously to its rites, values dogma only in so far as it is expressed in rites.

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  • To escape from these preoccupations and prejudices except upon the path of conscious and deliberate sin was impossible for all but minds of rarest quality and courage; and these were too often reduced to the recantation of their supposed errors no less by some secret clinging sense of guilt than by the church's iron hand.

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  • Sickness is suffering, so is death, so is union with the unloved, and separation from the loved; not to obtain what one desires is suffering; the entire fivefold clinging to the earthly is suffering.

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  • Indeed, as the history of the higher religions shows, religion tends in the end to break away from secular government with its aristocratic traditions, and to revert to the more democratic spirit of the primitive age, having by now obtained a clearer consciousness of its purpose, yet nevertheless clinging to the inveterate forms of human ritual as still adequate to symbolize the consecration of life - the quickening of the will to face life earnestly.

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  • Among the marine productions on the southern coast, a species of kelp, Macrocystis pyrifera, merits special mention because of its extraordinary length, its habit of clinging to the rocks in strong currents and turbulent seas, and its being a shelter for innumerable species of marine animals.

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  • Loving him, believing in his powers, passionately desiring for him a successful career, but clinging with both hands to the old forms of faith from which he floated away, this solitary, intense woman did as much as any one to form, by action and reaction, the mind and character of the young Emerson.

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  • Though ignorant of the legal ritual and prayers, they performed the tawaf with enthusiasm, throwing themselves against the Ka`ba and clinging to its curtains as a child clings to its mother.

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  • But in early Christianity this latter antithesis was as yet undeveloped; faith means simply force in clinging to moral and religious conviction, whatever their rational grounds may be; this force, in the Christian consciousness, being inseparably bound up with personal loyalty and trust towards Christ, the leader in the battle with evil, the ruler of the kingdom to be realized.

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  • Men of good birth (nearly always, too, of Celtic blood on one side at least), they leave Iceland young and attach themselves to the kings and earls of the north, living in their courts as their henchmen, sharing their adventures in weal and woe, praising their victories, and hymning their deaths if they did not fall by their sides - men of quick passion, unhappy in their loves, jealous of rival poets and of their own fame, ever ready to answer criticism with a satire or with a sword-thrust, but clinging through all to their art, in which they attained most marvellous skill.

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  • Odysseus at length succeeded in making the giant drunk, blinded him by plunging a burning stake into his eye while he lay asleep, and with six of his friends (the others having been devoured by Polyphemus) made his escape by clinging to the bellies of the sheep let out to pasture.

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  • Clinging to his neck, her mouth found his in a long arousing kiss.

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  • Her body no longer under her control, Deidre sank into the state, clinging to the words of Fate about helping Gabriel.

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  • He was an obstinate man, clinging to a guitar twanging Christianity in the face of public opinion.

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  • In particular this dive site is notable for the numerous snakelocks anemones to be found clinging to the steep rock surfaces.

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  • Cuba Economically isolated and stubbornly clinging to Communism - but yes, it has a motorway network.

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  • England have had their chances to tread upon fingernails desperately clinging to the cliff top.

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  • The seaweed itself can be found in some parts of the west coast, clinging to the rocks at low tide.

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  • Clinging confusedly to this imposition on the majority is institutional and personal egotism for which there is no decent excuse.

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  • A few long wisps of white hair, like shreds of a torn spider web, clinging to the domed, blue-veined forehead.

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  • Too much of Religion has the old modernism clinging to its tattered garments.

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  • By summer I have cleared a small glade of land, torn out every stubborn stump, dug up every clinging root.

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  • Cause a regular pencil to defy gravity by clinging to your fingers!

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  • And then they advertize the fact by leaving black grime clinging to the enamel of the bath.

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  • They leave their skin cases behind, which look rather gruesome still clinging, lifeless, to the iris leaves.

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  • A cliff on the way to the coast had about 100 jackdaws clinging to it.

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  • There were no towering columns of spume, no anglers clinging like shipwrecked mariners to the rocks.

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  • They wondered how I could be so narrow-minded, and why I insisted on clinging so stubbornly to my outdated beliefs.

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  • A clinging drive followed by a rolling nick then a stroke swiftly brought him back into the game.

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  • With it's steep wooded valleys, and pretty pastel houses clinging to the hillsides, Dartmouth boasts the prettiest town in England.

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  • Further round the peninsula is Fowey, a small town and port clinging to the steep sides of the river valley.

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  • The tender meat of skate clinging to the strip of cartilage is reminiscent of pork ribs.

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  • In the wheel rut 's clinging dark watch an arc of bright cloud, blue sky.

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  • Why do we persist in clinging to the same old gender stereotypes?

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  • At first I had some heavy rubber thigh waders which preferred clinging to the mud than to my thigh waders which preferred clinging to the mud than to my thighs.

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  • At first I had some heavy rubber thigh waders which preferred clinging to the mud than to my thighs.

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  • The Semang, as they are most usually called by the Malays, are Negritos - a small, very dark people, with features of the negroid type, very prognathous, and with short, woolly hair clinging to the scalp in tiny crisp curls.

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  • On one screen we see a makeshift balcony clinging to the side of a rundown building.

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  • The few stubborn leaves still clinging to the trees rustle in the brisk winter breeze.

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  • More color and atmosphere was added with their clinging sharply patterned dresses, their bodies and arms rolled in a sensuous rhythm.

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  • An inspirational stretch of southern coastline reveals clusters of tiny, colorful villages clinging to cliffs perched high above a dazzling sea.

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  • He 's found much money and a certain satisfaction in lingerie, but now it 's all business and a clinging trophy wife.

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  • We should be putting more effort into removing our own underdog status, not clinging onto it.

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  • I 've climbed into your tree of thoughts, clinging like an ornament to your uppermost branches.

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  • There are four-and-a-half million Norwegians, clinging to an icy strip of tundra on the uttermost edge of the continent.

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  • This would have added authenticity to his alleged semi-divine status among various pagan sects clinging to the divinity of the Winged Planet.

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  • Short and frilly dresses look great when you have beautiful leg; long, body clinging cuts work best with slim and full-figured women.

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  • The problem happens when cats lick their paws during grooming and ingest some of the clinging litter particles.

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  • Remove shoes at the door to prevent pollen clinging to the soles from traveling inside, too.

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  • Winter decorations in the bathroom can be as simple as a few plants, like a Christmas cactus and poinsettias installed on a windowsill, to a mob of motion activated, singing elves clinging to your shower curtain.

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  • For a moment she surrendered to his warm lips and secure embrace, clinging to him as her heart stepped up pace.

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  • Destiny cried harder, clinging to her hands and trying to get back into her arms.

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  • He started the engine and she clamped her arms around him, clinging to him as he spun the tires in a spray of pebbles and rocks.

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  • He smiled, his gaze absently dropping to her clinging shirt.

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  • She called to him as he hunkered down beside a rose bush with a few brown leaves clinging to it.

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  • Quinn, surprised we were still clinging to our project, slumped down in an easy chair, journals in hand.

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  • She described the skeleton as gross, with dead stuff clinging to some of the bones.

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  • Deidre's eyes fell to the tall teen demoness, who was shaking and clinging to Darkyn's mate.

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  • It had to be difficult to maintain any semblance of authority with a toddler clinging to his face, but he managed to do it.

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  • Destiny watched him warily, still clinging to Carmen.

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  • With a deep breath, she crossed through the clinging cold, at a run by the time she reached the other side out of fear the portals might all disappear before she was safe.

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  • It was muggier than she was used to, the air clinging to her already hot skin.

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  • He wore the long-sleeve knit shirt, snug enough to show his physique without clinging to it, the snug jeans low on his lean hips.

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  • She shoved his hands away, clinging to him.

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  • The Qatwali warriors had looked her over in full light, as if to ensure she was no threat, then dismissed her with a look that said she ranked lower than the tarantula cat clinging to one wall.

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  • Dean spent much time clinging to the sideboards until his wife, with a heart full of charity and an arm about his waist, supported him in slow glides around the oval.

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  • All seemed to be in perilously dangerous situations, clinging to the sheer walls with outstretched arms and spread legs, somehow adhered to the clear surface before them.

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  • As they sat on the sofa, he thought of the girl lying here just hours before, clinging to life because of him.

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  • It was as if they were one person, clinging to each other - neither wanting to be the first to end the embrace.

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  • He was still above the timberline, devoid of any trees that would impair visibility so it was clear enough to follow the road with its many switchbacks and curves traversing the mountain below him, a black line clinging to the side of the cliff like a pen­cil drawing.

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  • For instance, the swampy character of malarial areas is explained by their breeding in stagnant water; the effect of drainage, and the general immunity of high-lying, dry localities, by the lack of breeding facilities; the danger of the night air, by their nocturnal habits; the comparative immunity of the upper storeys of houses, by the fact that they fly low; the confinement of malaria to well-marked areas and the diminution of danger with distance, by their habit of clinging to the breeding-grounds and not flying far.

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  • The Order, clinging to its rights with the conservatism of an ecclesiastical corporation, still maintained its claims to East Prussia, and pressed them tenaciously even against the electors of Brandenburg themselves, when they inherited the land on the failure of Albert's descendants in 1618.

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  • Even in summer cold and thick fogs are often seen hanging over the rivers, and clinging to the lower parts of the hills, and hoar-frosts are by no means unknown even in June and July.

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  • Napoleon's habit of clinging to his own preconceptions never received so strange and disastrous an illustration as it did during the month spent at Moscow.

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  • The mature dragon-fly nymph, for example, makes its way out of the water in which the early stages have been passed and, clinging to some water-plant, undergoes the final ecdysis that the imago may emerge into the air.

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  • Unhappily, clinging to the conviction that all the lands which the crusaders would traverse were the "lost provinces" of his empire, he induced the crusaders to do him homage, so that, whatever they conquered, they would conquer in his name, and whatever they held, they would hold by his grant and as his vassals.

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  • Their slopes enclose well-watered valleys of great fertility, in which the Berber tribes cultivate tiny irrigated fields, their houses clinging to the hill-sides.

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  • Both sexes wear the langouti or loincloth, which the men supplement with a short jacket, the women with a long scarf draped round the figure or with a long clinging robe.

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  • Monro arrived and recommended evacuation of the peninsula, the Ottoman host gathered about the Dardanelles was already decidedly stronger in point of numbers than was the army which was clinging to patches of littoral without a sheltered base.

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  • But the only hitherto apparent evidence of such defects is an excessive clinging to the letter of the law; a marked reluctance to exercise discretion; and that, perhaps, i5 attributable rather to the habit of obedience.

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  • Rayleigh points out that this clinging of the sound to the surface of a concave wall does not depend on the exactness of the spherical form.

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  • Between Bakhchi-sarai and Chufut-kaleh is the Uspenskiy monastery, clinging like a swallow's nest to the face of the cliffs, and the scene of a great pilgrimage on the 15th (29th) of August every year.

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  • The legs are stout and spiny, and well adapted for clinging to the hair or feathers of the host animal.

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  • The members of both groups appear to have a power like that possessed by geckos of clinging to vertical surfaces of rocks and trees by the soles of their feet.

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  • Sir John Alleyne and two men, all badly wounded, clinging to a skiff.

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  • Hence the weakness and the dark-grey fracture of this iron, and hence, by brushing this fracture with a wire brush and so detaching these loosely clinging flakes of graphite, the colour can be changed nearly to the very light-grey of pure iron.

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  • He has been represented as a determined apologist of intellectual orthodoxy animated by an almost fanatical "hatred of reason," and possessed with a purpose to overthrow the appeal to reason; as a sceptic and pessimist of a far deeper dye than Montaigne, anxious chiefly to show how any positive decision on matters beyond the range of experience is impossible; as a nervous believer clinging to conclusions which his clearer and better sense showed to be indefensible; as an almost ferocious ascetic and paradoxer affecting the credo quia impossibile in intellectual matters and the odi quia amabile in matters moral and sensuous; as a wanderer in the regions of doubt and belief, alternately bringing a vast though vague power of thought and an unequalled power of expression to the expression of ideas incompatible and irreconcilable.

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  • The Essenes, while clinging to what they held to be original Mosaism, yet conceived and practised their ancestral faith in ways which showed distinct traces of syncretism, or the operation of influences foreign to Judaism proper.

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  • The spirit of revolutionary France had not yet touched the heart of the Habsburg empire, and national rivalries were expressed, not so much in expansive ambitions, aš in a somnolent clinging to traditional privileges.

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  • I also saw poor Niobe with her youngest child clinging close to her while she implored the cruel goddess not to kill her last darling.

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  • Petya, clinging to his legs, kept shouting, "And me too!"

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  • 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.

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  • The girls were sitting up in bed clinging to each other, and trembling with terror.

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  • Who can forget the powerful image American celebrity photographer Annie Leibovitz snapped of a naked John Lennonclinging to Yoko Ono just hours before he was shot and killed?

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  • Part of this personality disorder includes a constant feeling of emptiness that the person tries to fill by clinging onto other people.

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  • Those D-listers who seem to be clinging to what little bit of time is left in their 15 minutes of fame.

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  • These types of reality competitions can often turn into a circus of B-list celebs clinging to any airtime they can to revive their careers.

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  • This will help remove staining caused by tearing from the eyes and urine clinging to the inside of the back legs.

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  • Weight - A heavier fabric will flow freely over the hips and legs, without clinging to the body.

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  • The rayon gives a drape to the fabric which keeps it from clinging or pulling on a woman with a fuller figure.

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  • It contains just enough spandex to give it some stretch without clinging or binding.

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  • Chose one in a light fabric that skims the body without clinging.

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  • If you go with legging style shorts, choose shorts that skim the legs without clinging.

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  • Fishnets look great on the skin, clinging and enhancing the look of curves.

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  • Many women love wearing camisoles under their clothes in order to have a smooth look and to prevent clothes from clinging.

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  • It will not only keep your clothes from clinging but will feel great against your skin.

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  • It will prevent clinging as well as give you a smooth silhouette.

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  • She was riding behind Cade, her hands clinging to his lean hips.

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  • These later stages, comprising the greater part of the larval history, are adapted for an inquiline or a parasitic life, where shelter is assured and food abundant, while the short-lived, active condition enables the newly-hatched insect to make its way to the spot favourable for its future development, clinging, for example, in the case of an oil-beetle's larva, to the hairs of a bee as she flies towards her nest.

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  • At that point Jonathan came into the kitchen with Matthew holding on to one hand and Natalie clinging desperately to the hand on his short arm.

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  • But, still clinging to the groundless belief, for which British statesmen had, of late at least, afforded Turkey no justification, that Great Britain at all events would support him, he obstinately refused to give ear to the pressing requests of the Powers that the necessary reforms should be instituted.

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