"Cling to" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... his mind. The old instinct came upon him to cling to the land just a little longer and give it one more chance. He walked the floor feverishly, his mind tortured by indecision. Presently he stopped, took out his pocket book and counted his money. Two hundred and thirty dollars—it was all ...
— The Gilded Age, Complete • Mark Twain and Charles Dudley Warner
... black hull lifts And sinks with the swell's long roll, And the white birds cling to her rotting shrouds Like prayers of a ...
— Pan and Aeolus: Poems • Charles Hamilton Musgrove
... myself, is like calling on the wretch in the act of falling from a precipice, to form a calm judgment by what twig he may best gain the chance of breaking his fall. His answer must necessarily be, that he will cling to that which he can easiest lay hold of, and trust the rest to Providence. I accept therefore your offer of protection in the modified way you are pleased to limit it, and I put my faith in Heaven and ...
— Waverley Volume XII • Sir Walter Scott
... of Fame. It was very steep; at first it seemed that she could find no place to put even one foot. She must cling to very uncertain bits along the way to help her to move up, yet little by little she climbed. It took years and years, and one by one her companions dropped by the way. Those who also neared the top had little of companionship for her. ...
— Fireside Stories for Girls in Their Teens • Margaret White Eggleston
... nothing; make a clerk of him, and he would only ravel the figures; send him to the soldiering, and he would have a sudden impulse to fight on the wrong side. No, no, Miss Ailie says he has a gift for the ministry, and we must cling to that." ...
— Sentimental Tommy - The Story of His Boyhood • J. M. Barrie
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