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- verb archaic Third-person singular simple present indicative form of
cling .
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Examples
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It clingeth to the palate and purgeth it of grosser tastes.
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To man clingeth my will; with chains do I bind myself to man, because I am pulled upwards to the Superman: for thither doth mine other will tend.
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The heart whereon his cause hung -- see how clingeth
War Poetry of the South Various
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It was one of those delightful spots to which the heart clingeth.
The Lianhan Shee 1921
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[20] God is the kingdom of heaven to souls; if therefore she leaveth all things and clingeth to God alone, she acquireth God by constraint.
The Following of Christ. c. 1300-1361 1910
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As, if I sell a calf, I may not object to his removal because, forsooth, some portion of earth from my land clingeth to his hoofs.
The Panchronicon Harold Steele MacKaye 1897
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It clingeth to the palate and purgeth it of grosser tastes.
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To man clingeth my will; with chains do I bind myself to man, because I am pulled upwards to the Superman: for thither doth mine other will tend.
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To man clingeth my will; with chains do I bind myself to man, because
Thus Spake Zarathustra A book for all and none Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche 1872
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Master Sweetheart, clingeth to your knee and sanctifieth your hearthstone.
The Holy Cross and Other Tales Eugene Field 1872
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