Fang and claw had climbed the path ahead of him.

" Mr. Lane stretched a claw-like hand toward him.

Then there is the larkspur, also termed lark's-claw, and lark's-heel, the lamb's-toe being so called from its downy heads of flowers, and the horse-hoof from the shape of the leaf.

The latter carries, as that of the lion was fabled to do, a final claw, not to lash the creature into rage, but for the more practical purpose of striking down an enemy endeavouring to approach it in flank or rear.

A blow from the claw-furnished tail would plough up the thigh or rip open the abdomen of a man.

He clutched her shoulder with a great claw of a hand and drew her closer to him, his face thrust down to hers.

And along had come a ruck of stuff that was dark and dingy and old-fashioned; awkward articles with a vast dull expanse of mahogany, ending in clumsy claw feet; spindle-legged tables inlaid with white wood; old-fashioned mirrors in scarred gilt frames; awkward-looking highboys and the plainest of sofas and lounges.

The articles are those six ball-and-claw-foot chairs with violin backs.

But there had been sold what the catalogue described as "A Colonial sofa with carved dolphin arms, winged claw feet, and carved back" for two hundred and ten dollars, and after that the emotions aroused in Little Arcady were difficult to classify.

At the impact a claw-like hand shot out and the gorilla fingers of the left hand of the brute-man the Ramblin' Kid fought, closed over the throat of the cowboy.

Now, miller, miller dustipoll I'll clapper-claw your jobbernole.

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

His right claw is large and strong, so he uses it to close the door of his stolen home.

You will often see Lobsters with one very large claw, and one small.

Also they often lose a claw in the terrible fights of which they seem so fond.

If one joint of a claw becomes injured the Lobster has no further use for it; he is wise, for his very life depends on his armour.

" She took up the little hand, scarcely bigger than a bird's claw, and while it twined closely about her finger, she looked into its eyes, so like to Gerald's in shape and color.

The parrot listened with ear upturned, and a lump of sugar in her claw, then overtopped all their voices with the cry of "Bon jour, Rosabella!

Her voice is the screeching of an owl, her eye the poison of a cockatrice, her hand the claw of a crocodile, and her heart a cabinet of horror.

Like the crude evolutionistic hypotheses in Rousseau's day, it gave one a more soundly based sympathy for one's fellowssince evolution was not yet "red in tooth and claw."

This worthless outlaw of the mountains was three times as large as Muskwa, and every ounce of him was fighting muscle and bone and claw and sharp teeth.

Every particular claw left its ugly impression.

The real excitement of life, at least to a cat, is when in a morning stroll abroad she goes out of her spherethe hearth-rugand meets some feline friend to whom she extends a claw, playful or otherwise; or possibly meets some merry puppy which induces her to move rapidly up the nearest tree with an agility which you never would believe the mother of a family could boast if you had not been an eye-witness to the interesting scene.

When I was keekin inta t' winda at the nags, he comes behint me and claps his claw on ma shouther, and he gars me gang wi' him, and open the aad coach-house door, and haad the cannle for him, till he pearked into the deed man't feyace; and, as God's my judge, I sid the corpse open its eyes and wark its mouth, like a man smoorin' and strivin' to talk.

There is a quick flash of jewelled rings ungloved to the light, and the reward is placed in that claw-like grasp by the white hand of the marchioness.