Like wine-stain to a flask the old distrust still clings
"How greedily They snuff the fishy steam, that to each blade Rank scenting clings!
Liddy still clings to her ghost theory, and points to my wet and muddy boots in the trunk-room as proof.
She clings to the silken floor, she frustrates my attacks, which I am bound to moderate lest I should injure her.
It has been remarked that in times of great religious fervor men sometimes change their religious opinions; whereas in times of general scepticism everyone clings to his own persuasion.