And make no mistake: if you are here when he returns that hole will have to be dugunless they throw you out for the claws of the buzzards.

His fingers worked convulsively, as though clawing at some unseen object close beside him, and then his breath whistled through his teeth.

'And claws coming out of the hands, and claws coming out of the feet!' 'Yes,' said Dilly, wildly and recklessly and jumping up and down, 'and claws on the ceiling, and claws on the floor, and claws all over the world!' With one violent slap she was sent sprawling.

He must have been of monstrous growth, judging by the impression of his great feet and claws in the sand.

He sees her more from the new scientific point of view, as "red in tooth and claw with rapine."

She resisted, and shrieked, and clawed like a wild-cat.

While we were moving forward, our combined efforts to walk straight ahead made it impossible for one to turn and go in an opposite direction, but in the few moments of our excitement as we turned and twisted in clawing for the loop where Edith had been tied, we became bewildered.

He only needed to stare at the two ducks through a single eye-glass he had screwed into one of his eyes to make them turn pale and drop their claws to their sides.

Owl and hawk, fox and weasel and wildcat,all the prowlers of the day and night have long since discovered these good hunting-grounds and leave the prints of wing and claw over the records of the wood-mice; but still Tookhees returns, led by his love of the snow-fields, and thrives and multiplies spite of all his enemies.

Whenever Martin would prepare to take a running leap, or a swift run down a slope, the animal, stealing quietly up behind, would put out a claw from his big soft foota great white claw as big as an owl's beakand pull him suddenly back.

Thus he baffled them and sported with the traps, till Kellyan made the door drop into a deep groove so that the Bear could put no claw beneath it.

Again and again Von Kluck's cavalry, supported by artillery and infantry, clawed round the end of the British force, which eluded it as by leaping back again and again.

"Oh! Oooh!" screamed Tunnygate, turning wildly and clawing through the hedge, dragging Andrew after him.

Then she went back to the contents of the first two boxes, clawing about among the limp garments with which the table was strewn.

The big cat had not seized the ox with its claws by the head, but had torn open its throat and neck.

The wind-up came when the lions were seated on benches, and the elephant was between them, and the tigers and leopards made a pyramid, and the monkey was clawing around pa's legs.

"I called Jason to bring a spade; but I could scarcely wait, and I found myself clawing likelike one of the dogs, my dear.

You live peaceably with the dog, who is your messmate; in gratitude to me, you regulate your reception, good or bad, of all the animals under my roof; thus, you raise your claw against such as you imagine mine enemies, while you prick up your tail at the sight of my friends.

This Thrasher was clinging to the end of a slender branch, one claw above the other, so that his head, which was thrown back, looked straight up to the sky.