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He clung briefly to the railing, and then was pushed overboard into the sea.
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Known for their ultra-defensive playing style, they clung on for five years but eventually were relegated.
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Even after the dissolution of her second marriage, she clung to her exalted title.
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A sphere of fire surrounded the air around the earth and had originally clung to it like the bark round a tree.
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He noted the nails of his shoes and the iron ferrule of his staff clung to a rock.
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The two soldiers clung to their overturned boat, but the boy was lost in the icy water.
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To this faith he clung with earnest devotion and persistence until his death.
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Snow clung to trees which still had most of their leaves.
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The children clung to their parents in fear.
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In another account, a wolverine attacked a polar bear and clung to its throat until the bear suffocated.
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