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.

He has long black whiskers, which gives him a rather fierce look when observed closely, strong claws, sharp as fish-hooks, and the brightest of bright eyes, full of telling speculation.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

He was given the best place by the fire, and held his brown claws over the red coals while the others were finding their places.

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.

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.

Jones strapped a collar around her neck and clipped the sharp yellow claws.

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

what filthy claws!

No woodsman could mistake the high, rocking shoulders, the burly form, the wicked ears laid back against the flat, massive head, the fangs gleaming white, the long, hooked claws slashing through the turf as he ran.

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.

With ears thrown back, brows contracted, mouth open, and glaring yellow eyes scintillating with fury, the cruel claws plucking at the earth, the ridgy hairs on the back stiff and erect as bristles, and the lithe lissome body quivering in every muscle and fibre with wrath and hate, the beast comes down to the charge with a defiant roar, which makes the pulse bound and the breath come short and quick.

The Clue of the marked claw.

This Bernhard Crab in the front, so leisurely pushing away the sand before him with his broad, flat claws, quietly enjoys the meal he finds, undisturbed by fears of a failing supply.

He next gave them some common house flies, which they seized with eagerness in their fore claws, and tore in pieces; notwithstanding this apparent fondness for flies, they continued to destroy each other.

At first, with frantic claws and eager squeals, he tore at the entrances to these until the prey appeared at exits farther on, only to repeat the disappearance when dashed at.

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.