6 Metaphors for claws

An' it's too broad an' clubby f'r a grizzly, an' the claws are too long f'r the length of the foot.

And the sharp sword of Knowledge cleft the deep vault, and shone therein, where the basilisk killed, and the animal's body was dissolved in a death-bringing vapour: its claw extended from the fermenting wine-cask; its eyes were air, that burnt when the fresh wind touched it.

It was about a foot from head to taile, above a foot about; the wings one and twenty inches long, nine broad; the claw, whereby it hung on the trees, was two inches," &c.

Both fell to the earth and took root; the claw becoming a species of thorn, which Dr. Kuhn identifies as the "Mimosa catechu," and the feather a "palasa tree," which has a red sap and scarlet blossoms.

Thor was a digger, and his claws were dulled; the black was not a digger, but a tree-climber, and his claws were like knives.

His claws were an inch and a quarter long, and curved like simitars.

6 Metaphors for  claws