Nearer came the sounds, and then I saw something come up above the sill, and clutch at the broken window-frame.

Hence we read of old-world warriors,of Gog and Magog and the Kings of Bashan; of the sons of Anak; of Hercules, with his lion-skin and club; of Beówulf, who, dragging the sea-monster from her lair, plunged beneath the drift of sea-foam and the flame of dragon-breath, and met the clutch of dragon-teeth.

Babette sunk down on her pillow again, her baby clutched in her arms.

If notkindly relax that crablike clutch on my elbow before partial paralysis ensues.

And then there came a pause over all the place, an awful stillness,hundreds of men and women standing clutching with desperate movements at their hearts as if to tear them out, moving their heads as if to dash them against the wall, wringing their hands, with a look upon all their convulsed faces which I can never forget.

And since it took them some moments to come to their senses and appreciate that all this was not an evil dream, Duchemin's hands were clutching for the back of the carriage when the horses broke suddenly into an awkward, lumbering gallop and whisked it out of reach.

Sir Gilles half stood, half sat upon the table, while the nun faced him, cold and proud and disdainful, the gleaming dagger clutched to her quick-heaving bosom; and Sir Gilles, assured and confident, laughed softly as he leaned so lazily, yet ever he watched that gleaming steel, waiting his chance to spring.

Parker exclaimed, as he jammed the clutch into gear and the car sprang forward.

He had me in his clutches like a cat with a mouse, and he was going to get the full zest of it.

All seemed as if they was jest bilin over to get their clutches about my breethin apparatus.

For a few months life was but a feverish clutch after varied sensation, especially the dear tickle of applause; he caught the facile atheistic flippancy of that poor creature, the 'modern young man,' all-knowing and all-foolish, and he came very near losing his soul in the nightmare.

I evaded his clutch by leaping aside, but the space was far too small to permit these tactics to carry long, and finally he had me.

[As Yardsley speaks the portiere is violently clutched from without, and Jennie's head is thrust into the room.

The whip fell from his clutch over the dasher, and in recovering it his hat fell off; shame kept him silent for the rest of the ride.

The finger-bones of this arm were still tightly shut, clutching between them a roll of something that looked like birch-bark.

nodding toward the brassie, still tightly clutched in West's hand.

The poetry of it captivated her fancy, the dread of what it conjured clutched like cold hands at her heart.

In her black calico sunbonnet and dress, and long, drab apron, with her hand tightly clutched to John's arm, and dark apprehension written upon her blind face, she was indeed a pitiable sight.

I saw by the early twilight this fair young head, as it was sinking down to darknesssaw this marble arm, as it rose above her head and her treacherous grave, tossing, faultering, rising, clutching as at some false deceiving hand stretched out from the cloudssaw this marble arm uttering her dying hope, and then her dying despair.

He came presently to talus, and among the rocks he notedfor he was an observant manan unfamiliar fern that seemed to clutch out of the crevices with intense green hands.