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some strong verbs have identical past tense and participle, as in cling–clung–clung. In some verbs, the past tense, past participle, or both are identical...

with vowel shortening. When meaning "adhere" the verb is regular. cling – clung – clung Strong, class 3 clothe – clad/clothed – clad/clothed overclothe...

the novel verb spling in line with the pattern seen in fling/flung and cling/clung. However, he shows research showing these sorts of generalizations to...

black bees'. The goddess is associated with bees, hornets, and wasps, which cling to her body, and is thus typically depicted as emanating bees and hornets...

adhered to however unreasonable it may be", or "someone who obstinately clings to an error, bad habit or prejudice, even after the foible has been exposed...

thought she was to blame for the storm and threw her into the sea. She clung to the kayak, but her father cut her fingers off: first the tips, then the...

the Father, he "fills all things" (e.g. Eph. 1:23), and can properly be clung to in the means of grace he provides, such as in the Eucharist. The words...

technique for cutting cloth diagonal to the grain of the fabric, enabling it to cling to the body while stretching and moving with the wearer. While Vionnet herself...

grew. As he put it, "For nearly ten years I had clung to Nanny. For nearly ten more years I was to cling to him, adoring him as I had adored Nanny, so that...

present, it clung to her, but then began venturing off to explore. If frightened, the infant ran back to the surrogate mother and clung to her for a...

in part while living in Cherry Valley with Isabelle McClung. She completed it at the McClungs' home in Pittsburgh. O Pioneers!: The Willa Cather Scholarly...

measurements a second time with a larger sphere. All but one of these scientists clung to the spurious formula despite their empirical observations. Even when...

and third parts of the sutta discuss the 62 beliefs (ditthi) which are clung to by ascetics in India. These are divided into: 18 beliefs related to the...

Remembering the trinket "to which [the brother] clung as he was pulled from the water, to which he still clings", Barney decides to go out to the boulder and...

matter how those who clung to the glorious past soldiered on, it was a tarnished way of life that led to ruin to those who clung to it. The story has...

and there would not be enough lifeboat places for everyone. Some still clung to the hope that the worst would not happen: when Eloise Hughes Smith pleaded...

attempted to mix modernity and tradition. Popular groups such as Tibesti have clung faster to their heritage by drawing on sai, a traditional style of music...

to dipping fruits or vegetables in a liquid, but not when wetness merely clung to those fruits or vegetables. Nowadays this washing is not widely practiced...

capitalist system, or the league of autocratic rulers who clung (and in places, continue to cling) to power thanks to oil revenues or outside military aid...

black individuals were forced to cling to their black identities in order to build community and have since mistakenly clung to that same rhetoric under the...