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But it was absolutely necessary for Karenin to think thus; it was so necessary for him in his humiliation to possess at least this imaginary exaltation, from the height of which he, the despised of all, was able to despise others, that he clung to this mock salvation as if it were the real thing.
'The sculptor's shadows so little resembled shadows that they even clung to a ladder,' said Levin.
Dolly, struggling with difficulty with the skirts that clung to her legs, no longer walked but ran, her eyes fixed on the children.
The bottom of the nurse's dress was dry, but Kitty's dress was wet through and clung close to her.
He still looked at her as she clung to him, pressing him with her two tremulous arms, her face raised with such supplicating love that he was deeply moved.
Frightened bats flew about and clung to the roof of the gallery.
I clung to it.
He gathered only about ten shellfish per dive, because he had to tear them from the banks where each clung with its tough mass of filaments.
As for zoophytes, for a few moments I was able to marvel at a wonderful, orange-hued hydra from the genus Galeolaria that clung to the glass of our port panel; it consisted of a long, lean filament that spread out into countless branches and ended in the most delicate lace ever spun by the followers of Arachne.
Those poor men leaped up into the shrouds, clung to the masts, writhed beneath the waters.
They looked at one another and their thoughts, confounded in the same agony, clung close together like two throbbing breasts.
She clung to Rodolphe.
For she clung with her expiring virtue to the Virgin, the sculptures, the tombs—anything.
Often they had started when, with a sudden movement, his hat entered the diligence through the small window, while he clung with his other arm to the footboard, between the wheels splashing mud.
Then, though she might feel humiliated at the baseness of such enjoyment, she clung to it from habit or from corruption, and each day she hungered after them the more, exhausting all felicity in wishing for too much of it.
As his affections vanished, he clung more closely to the love of his child.
She had any number of purchases to make in the town, and declared that she absolutely must dine in a tavern; in spite of anything her husband might say or do, she clung to her idea.
But never has it been so resplendent, never have the damask strips been so well hung as they are today, have they clung so to the pillars.''At last, he is going to tell me his secret,' thought Julien, 'here he is talking to me of himself; he is beginning to expand.'
The persistence with which he clung to these six words began to impress the crowd.
Julien clung to the iron latch intended to hold the shutter open, and, risking a thousand falls, gave the ladder a violent shake, and displaced it a little.
At the time of our tale, we were a divided people, and Sarah thought it was no more than her duty to cherish the institutions of that country to which she yet clung as the land of her forefathers; but there were other and more cogent reasons for the silent preference she was giving to the Englishman.
And the two clung together with beating hearts.
They clung together in terror, in the thick gloom that followed.
The tittering rose higher and higher--the cat was within six inches of the absorbed teacher's head--down, down, a little lower, and she grabbed his wig with her desperate claws, clung to it, and was snatched up into the garret in an instant with her trophy still in her possession!
Becky clung to his side in an anguish of fear, and tried hard to keep back the tears, but they would come.
He sat down by her and put his arms around her; she buried her face in his bosom, she clung to him, she poured out her terrors, her unavailing regrets, and the far echoes turned them all to jeering laughter.
Then, they clung to the idea of their forthcoming marriage.
When he had passed the entrance to the cellar, he clung to the opposite wall where a mass of darkness terrified him.
With haggard look and hair on end, he clung to his mattress, imagining the jerks were becoming more and more violent.
A shudder of terror had suddenly shaken his limbs, and had clung to him.
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