When Henry clung to my neck as I lifted him into the carriage and placed him by her side, when I arranged her own wrapping to make her warm, though she turned her head from me, I saw the tears start to her eyes.
To see her now, one would think she had never pressed her cheek to my shoulder, or clung to me with tenderness or trust.
There was much about love in the ballad--faithful love that refused to abandon its object; love that disaster could not shake; love that in calamity waxed fonder, in poverty clung closer.
Norman obeyed, and once more clung to the steep face by the help of a bush; and this process was repeated several times till the black uttered a low laugh.
Only I, my boys," said Mrs Bedford in a low voice, and she kissed each in turn, and clungto the sturdy lads for a few moments.
He was longer this time, and as Norman clung to the tough stem of some gnarled bush, he looked out anxiously in the direction of their camp; but all now below was of intense blackness, not even a star appearing above to afford light.
The ship was cleaned of the vegetable growths that clung to her sides; masts were refixed, fittings tested and replaced, and ample stores put aboard.
Dorothy clung to her, and they reached the house together.
She believed him, and clung to him in white terror.
The last string he clung to long, and before he threw it to be caught and whirled after its fellows, he tore off a single bunch of fifty shells.
Elizabeth, or Bessy, as they afterwards named her, clung to her new friend, and a sad smile hovered on her wan little face.
Instinctively she clung to Paul; but he only saw an expression of tender affection in what was really the appeal to him for protection and help.
Hilda gave a shriek of terror and clungwildly to the gunwale.
The unlucky little Barringtons were possessed of parents who clung to theories which they themselves described as "wholesome ideas," and their friends denounced as "absurd cranks.
Isobel sat with her arm round poor little Hilda, who clungto her very closely, watching the water with a white, frightened face, though she was too plucky to cry.
She at once clung to him, and he had hard work to disengage her arm from his neck; then, after turning her so that her face was above water, he looked round.
My heart clung to her and I went forth from the bazaar and followed on her track.
The man, hearing this, caught hold of a cord that hung from the ceiling and clung to it, whilst they went round about the house and searched but found no one.
On the way they met a friend of my brother who clung to his skirt and implored his protection, begging him to stand by him and help to deliver him out of their hands.
Rose Red clung to her two friends closely, and loyally fought their battles.
Louisa and Ellen Gray were inconsolable; and Bella, with a very small pocket handkerchief held tightly in her hand, clung to Katy every moment, crying, and declaring that she would not let her go.
The girls would not cry, but they clung very tightly to papa, and put as much feeling into their last kisses as would have furnished forth half a dozen fits of tears.
In addition to those penned up inside, there were two passengers positioned on top, to the rear of the driver, where they clung to the trunk railings to keep from being jostled off.
Charity was the least of all old Joe's redeeming characteristics; charity was the very thing he did not recognize, yet some wag had facetiously branded him Charity Joe, and the appellation had clung to him ever since.
She turned her wonder-stricken face towards him still; but drew back, and clungcloser to her friend.
He stopped; for Bertha had drawn closer round his neck, and from the arm that clung about him, came a warning pressure which he understood too well.
Methinks ye have clung to outward things, and forgotten the inner things, and say that which ye do not.
Have ye clung to the standards fixed by your own selves, and cast the standards of God behind your backs?
The poor boy still clung on as if glued to the glass by his blood-stained hands.
Speechless and invisible they clung together on the brink, trembling at the frightful tempest the Prince of the Air had raised in his fury.
Crushed by this fearful blow, her strength gave way for a time, and she clung to George Neville, and told him she had nothing left but him, and one day implored him not to die and leave her.
She clung sobbing to him, and could not be comforted.
He stubbornly clung to that idea; he could not conceive that a person should refuse to soften the rigour of justice by an ingenious presentation of the facts.
His yellow skin clung like parchment to the projecting bones of his cheeks and jaw.
Moreover, it was scientific Positivism that he clung to; in his hatred of all mysticism he would have naught to do with the fantastic religious leanings of Comte in his last years.
No, no, he could not divest himself of that gown which clung so tightly to his flesh.
Cloistered, living alone with her fixed idea, Bernadette, naturally enough, obstinatelyclung to it.
But she clung to the hand-rest of the box, and shouted yet more loudly, though without any show of temper.
This supplied fresh food for the discussion on visible sores, for the little fair-haired gentleman clung obstinately to his idea of organising a special ward.
And, at first, he obstinately clung to the falsehood born of his fraternal charity.
With sagacious self-control they had given up powder, clung to their rouge, and shortened their waists without lessening the girth of their hoop.
But then the alternative--to betray the very incarnation of his ideal of womanhood to what for her was worse than hell itself; to shake off the delicate despairing suppliant who had clung to him so trustingly.
It was nothing but a simple robe of the softest primrose silk, which clung about her perfect figure voluptuously, and frankly expressed every graceful movement of her limbs.
The old sign swung and creaked in the winter wind, the snow fell upon it, the sleet clung to it, and in the summer the birds sang and twittered and made love upon it.
Hermia clung to Quintard, her eyes shining out of the dark.
Her high ideals still clung to her; but perhaps this was her mission in life—to remold Cryder.
Her disheveled hairclung about her flushed face, and through its tangle her eyes glittered like those of a snake.
Jacques continued to drink, holding the bottle in his left hand; suddenly, he closed and tightened the fingers of his right hand with a convulsive movement; his hair clung to his icy forehead, and his countenance revealed an agony of pain.
The exclamation of Rose completely roused her from her lethargy, and she clungto her sister, again sharing the fright without knowing its cause.
Cora and her chums clung to one another as they leaned their bodies against the blast, and peered through the mist.
Then Cora, who, with Jack, had come up from the breakfast room, clung to her brother, and a look of fear came into her eyes.
A few clung almost sullenly to the old homes, low and red things crouching on a wide level; but the children stirred restlessly and walked often to town and saw its wonders.
The tears streamed down the woman's cheeks and she clungto his arm until the perfume of her breath swept his face and he felt the tremors racing through her body.
The herd carried now upon its flank three figures which clung alongside and poured sharp blue jets of smoke into the swirling cloud of ashy dust.
Their way now led among ragged plum thickets, and occasional tangles of wild grapevines, or such smaller growths as clung close to the water among the larger, ragged cottonwoods that dotted the floor of the valley.
In this way the behaviour of an ex-minister towards his former colleagues, which is sometimes attributed to rancour, may very well be due to a natural expansion of opinions which were held in check while he clung to the cabinet.
Metternich and Lord Palmerston clung to the belief that the Ottoman Empire could still be reconstructed.
He clung to Shumla, however, and the Turks at Varna were forced to surrender.
In Colombia, the Nueva Granada of the Spaniards, Bolivar clung to the dictatorship.
A good dog, however, generally succeeded in fastening to the throat of his prey, and there clung with such tenacity as to sink and rise with the buck, avoiding the terrific strokes of its hoofs by laying close to the deer's body.
The chief was for making love to my beautiful Betsy, but I clung fast to her, and assuming an air of composure, I demanded whether their nation was at war with the Americans.
On the other hand, the Indians clung to them with a tenacity and fondness which made the spectators forget that they were gazing upon savages.
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