"I was 19, he was 34," she said, shaking her head as if bad memories were still clinging to her scalp.

The stain was still there, in spite of him, just as the memory of the murder would cling always to the place.

For a week he had lived close to the legends that surrounded the Dark Mage; the memory of Suraklin clung to the land like a decaying ghost.

Dairine shuddered; memory clung about her as a foul cloak.

While a child on the privy outside a strange cottage at night, he once nearly sat on one, and the memory has clung to him for life.

House-cleaning is tedious and repetitious anyway, so the memory of having done it isn't the sort of memory one clings to very hard.

Like the beard that covers the coach's boyish face, the memories of the season, both happy and sad, cling to Carlesimo.

'Any memories I have I cling to like a dying man'

"Everywhere," said Dawn Wilson, shaking her head as if the memories were clinging to her scalp.

Four weeks before, with the memories of everyday life clinging more closely, it would have met with immediate ridicule.