Remain attached

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Trace evidence on the body includes fibers and microscopic debris under the fingernails and adhering to blood and to abraded skin and hair.

Supreme Court of the United States shall decide that the States cannot exclude slavery from their limits, are you in favor of acquiescing in, adhering to, and following such decision as a rule of political action?

And in the event, it has hitherto been found, that, though some sensible inconveniencies arise from the maxim of adhering strictly to law, yet the advantages overbalance them, and should render the English grateful to the memory of their ancestors, who, after repeated contests, at last established that noble, though dangerous principle.

Now was led forth, amidst the insults of his enemies, and the tears of the people, this man of illustrious birth, and of the greatest renown in the nation, to suffer, for his adhering to the laws of his country, and the rights of his sovereign, the ignominious death destined to the meanest malefactor.

The city militia, influenced by two aldermen, Tichburn and Ireton, expressed the same resolution of adhering to the good old cause.

I will here give only the case of a minute fly, naturally caught and still alive, which I found adhering by its delicate feet to the glands on the extreme left side of the central disc.

I placed one of these leaves under the microscope, and saw innumerable atoms of lime adhering to the external surface of the secretion.

A small fly was found adhering by its feet to the left side of the disc.

The glands secrete copiously, judging from the quantity of dried secretion adhering to them.

On four leaves of a young and small plant, 8, 10, 14, and 16 minute insects, chiefly Diptera, were found in the autumn adhering to them.

June 23 thirtynine leaves from North Wales, which were selected owing to objects of some kind adhering to them.

A few days later he sent me some plants with sixteen seeds or fruits adhering to fourteen leaves.

All these were arraigned, convicted, and condemned for high treason, in adhering and promising aid to Perkin.

He represented the peril of perpetual innovations, and the necessity of adhering to some system.

Gardiner, Tonstal, and Bonner, who had been confined for their adhering to the Catholic cause, appeared before her, and implored her clemency and protection.