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- verb archaic Second-person singular simple present form of
cling .
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Examples
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I am part owner of this ship, and feel concerned for the souls of all its crew; if thou still clingest to thy Pagan ways, which I sadly fear, I beseech thee, remain not for aye a Belial bondsman.
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But I must tell thee that the laws of the Kemi forbid even to the Pharaoh, who hath the first claim upon all women, to take to wife a woman such as her whose hand thou clingest to so warmly.
Pharaoh's Broker Being the Very Remarkable Experiences in Another World of Isidor Werner Ellsworth Douglass
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Ah, ah, thou torturing Love, why clingest thou to me like a leech of the fen, and drainest all the black blood from my body?
Theocritus Bion and Moschus Rendered into English Prose 300 BC-260 BC Theocritus 1878
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Through them infinite love called to thee; and even now thou clingest to earth's love as all.
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The sensation of hunger, unfelt during all the forty days, seems now to have come on in all its keenness -- no doubt to open a door to the tempter, of which he is not slow to avail himself; Thou still clingest to that vainglorious confidence that Thou art the Son of God, carried away by those illusory scenes at the Jordan.
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Who clingest, with all that is left of thee human,
The Complete Poetical Works of James Russell Lowell James Russell Lowell 1855
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Unutterable with thy prying subtilties, wisdom will remain further from thee than she was, (Eccles. vii, 24;) but if, on the other hand, thou clingest to Him by faith, wisdom will stand at thy door.
Light in the Dark Places: or, Memorial of Christian Life in the Middle Ages. 1789-1850 1851
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Who clingest, with all that is left of thee human,
The Complete Works of Whittier John Greenleaf Whittier 1849
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Who clingest, with all that is left of thee human,
Old Portraits, Modern Sketches, Personal Sketches and Tributes Complete, Volume VI., the Works of Whittier John Greenleaf Whittier 1849
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Who clingest, with all that is left of thee human,
Personal Sketches and Tributes, Part 2, from Volume VI., The Works of Whittier: Old Portraits and Modern Sketches John Greenleaf Whittier 1849
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