He appeared to be thinking otherwise, as he made a vain attempt to remove the clinging grip of the two men-at-arms who had attached themselves to him.

Perched aloft beside Jeffries, a cloak was little protection against the driving rain; still less was it a help when he was forced to dismount-as he did every few minutes, it seemed-and put his shoulder to the wheel to free the miserable contrivance from the clinging grip of a mudhole.

She pulled herself free of the girl Emily's clinging grip.

Lunzie hated the daily effort to worm her way into a clean pressure garment, the intimate adjustments necessary for bodily functions, the clinging grip that made her feel trapped all the time.

Claude pulled the axe out of him the way a good woodsman will pull his axe out of a softwood tree, kind of rocking it back and forth to loosen the clinging grip of the sappy wood.

We seem powerless to protect ourselves and those we love from its clinging and relentless grip.

Before Sam could get a hold, long legs and arms were wound round him pinning his arms, and a clinging grip, soft but horribly strong, was squeezing him like slowly tightening cords; clammy fingers were feeling for his throat.