clinging

They were indeed a queer-looking party that assembled on the bank—the birds with draggled feathers, the animals with their fur clinging close to them, and all dripping wet, cross, and uncomfortable.

Marilla disengaged Anne’s clinging hands stonily.

Allan, clinging to that slippery old pile with no way of getting up or down.

Anne, clinging desperately to her precarious foothold, saw their flying forms and heard their shrieks.