The old man's clinging arm lost its hold.

He'd brushed her clinging arms off like so many cobwebs and went on his way.

He put aside the clinging arms and looked down on her sternly.

He had a sensation of clinging arms and a warm breath on his cheek.

Kirk pulled free of the clinging arms; and moved toward the door with the slow, ponderous walk of a man walking under water.

Now he looked down, for the first time consciously aware of that pain which gnawed at his heart, of the clinging arms.

Isaac disengaged himself from the clinging arms and put her from him.

Not unkindly but quite firmly he detached her clinging arms from round his neck.

She disengaged herself gently from Shirley's clinging arms and walked away deeply disturbed.

Her clinging arms released their hold of her father's neck, and with a trembling sigh she dropped back on to the pillow.