And then when you're asleep they tear a little hole in your neck with their sharp claws, and they suck the blood with their red lips.

The spikes are gone, and now it has tiny claws, and two eyes at the end of stalks.

But every drop of blood seemed frozen in his frame as he beheld an enormous claw thrust through the roof, member as it seemed of some being too gigantic to be contained in the chamber or the tower itself.

But he was afraid, and he continued to whimper softly to himself as he dug his little claws bravely into the shale.

One terrific claw, outreaching as he turned, ripped open Varronius' tunic and brought a little stream of crimson trickling down his left arm.

" A hand extended upon the table unclosed and closed slowly, with fingers tensed, like a murderous claw.

It was permitted to sit on the lady's knee, and scratch its yellow beak with its little yellow claw; but I never cared to let it remain long upon my shouldera perch it ardently affected.

But the wolf with his cruel claw made her his prize, And to darkness her spirit hath flown.

I have no information, but I know that it is not content with a vegetarian diet, like its black relative, but hankers after sheep and goats, and I guess that its murderous thoughts flow down its nerves to those keen claws.

The Clue of the marked claw.

The toes of a few end in broad, flat nails, and of most others, in pointed claws.

For boiling, choose rabbits with smooth and sharp claws, as that denotes they are young: should these be blunt and rugged, the ears dry and tough, the animal is old.

The twisted claw, by Franklin W. Dixon, pseud. of Harriet S. Adams & Edna C. Squier.

Suddenly from the black waves the sea monsters raised their misshapen heads, snatched at me with extended claws, and I awoke in terror.

The Dorking's chief characteristic is that he has five claws on each foot; the extra claw, however, is never of sufficient length to encumber the foot, or to cause it to "drag" its nest, or scratch out the eggs.

While he paced he heard Bill Gregg saying that they must start at once and put three thousand miles between them and that devil, John Mark; and he heard Caroline say that there was no longer anything to fearthe claws of the devil had been trimmed, and he would not reach after themhe had promised.

It was almost with an effort that I commanded myself so as not to withdraw my dress from the yellow crumpled filthy claws that griped it, and it was not at last without the authoritative voice of the overseer that the poor creature released her hold of me.

It was a desperate need which reached out a gaunt claw and plucked at them when, high on the flank of the mountain, as they swung around the corner of a densely wooded road, they saw a wild-eyed man in overalls leap down from the bushes and yell at them.

He is extremely lean, his limbs are atrophied, his body is black with filth and dust, his hair is long and dishevelled, his beard is shaggy, his finger and toe nails have become genuine claws, and his aspect is frightful.

In the Royal Collection at Windsor there are anatomical drawings for the construction of an imaginary quadruped with gigantic claws.

with unblushing face Dare ye claim sonship to our heavenly Sire, Who serve brute vices, crouching in the mire To hounds and conies, beasts that ape our race? Such truckling is called virtue by the base Hucksters of sophistry, the priest and friar, Gilt claws of tyrant brutes,who lie for hire, Preaching that God delights in this disgrace.

Ho, ho, how good it is to relax the nerves and to imagine that, with gleeful claws, one tears the enemies' flesh in bloody shreds!

Had it not been for the respect his hairy claws and his frowning eye-brows inspired, the rabble would have eaten him alive.

Oh, the ridiculous effort of a weak animalits tiny ineffectual claws and pointed wings beating against my face!

The entire ship trembled from keel to masthead, from quarter-deck to forecastle, with a deadly shuddering as though invisible claws had just checked it at full speed.