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Frank J. Wilstach, comp.  A Dictionary of Similes.  1916.
 
Cling
 
  Cling around the soul, as the sky clings round the mute earth forever beautiful.
            —Anonymous		  1
  Clinging … as ivy clings about an oak; as tuft-hunters with buzz and purr about a fellow-commoner.
            —Anonymous		  2
  Cling like a forlorn hope.
            —Anonymous		  3
  Clinging like a wet towel to a nail.
            —Anonymous		  4
  Cling like moss to a damp wall.
            —Anonymous		  5
  Clung … like a damp dish-cloth around a stove pipe.
            —Anonymous		  6
  Clung like a drowning man.
            —Anonymous		  7
  Clings like the wicked stench of the harlot’s room.
            —John Antrobus		  8
  Clung like a beast’s hide to his fleshless bones.
            —Edwin Arnold		  9
  Clung to the merry music of her words, like a bird on a bough, high swaying in the wind.
            —Philip James Bailey		  10
  Clings fast as the clinging vine.
            —Elizabeth Barrett Browning		  11
  Clings like an octopus.
            —Robert Browning		  12
  Clinging … as friend with friend, or husband with wife,
Makes hand in hand the passage of life.
            —William Cullen Bryant		  13
  Cling like Death’s embrace.
            —H. C. Bunner		  14
  Cling like Ivy.
            —Robert Burton		  15
  Clung like a cuirass to his breast.
            —Lord Byron		  16
  Clinging like a faint odor.
            —Henry A. Clapp		  17
  Cling to the memory as tenaciously as the fragrance of lavender clings to glove or lace.
            —Henry A. Clapp		  18
  Clung to the soil like Caliban.
            —Charles Dickens		  19
  Cling to the old house as barnacles to a wrecked and stranded vessel.
            —Sir Arthur Conan Doyle		  20
  Clinging … like pigeons on a roof-slope.
            —Thomas Hardy		  21
  Clung … like ivy to a tree.
            —Maurice Hewlett		  22
  Cling … like the spokes of a wheel.
            —Oliver Wendell Holmes		  23
  Clings … like the weed in the face of the cliff.
            —Thomas Hood		  24
Clings cruelly to us, like the gnawing sloth
On the deer’s tender haunches.
            —John Keats		  25
  Cling like the sloth.
            —Rudyard Kipling		  26
  Clings about thee close, like moss to stones.
            —Walter S. Landor		  27
  Cling, like bees about a flower’s wine-cup.
            —Gerald Massey		  28
                Cling
Like flies to the sheer precipice.
            —Lewis Morris		  29
  Clung like a spectral snow.
            —John G. Neihardt		  30
  Clung … like magnet to steel.
            —T. Buchanan Read		  31
  Clung like drowning men beneath the wave.
            —Bayard Taylor		  32
                Clung
  Like serpent eggs together.
            —Alfred Tennyson		  33
Her kisses burn where they close and cling
Like pain of longing or fire of hell.
            —George Sylvester Viereck		  34
  Clinging like sentry to his post.
            —Virgil		  35
  Clings … like pitch.
            —Virgil		  36
Cling, as clings the tufted moss,
To bear the winter’s lightning chills.
            —John Greenleaf Whittier		  37
 
 
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