I had removed the only means of reaching the window, and, as none of the other windows had any adjacent water pipes, to tempt the climbing powers of the monsters, I began to feel more confident of escaping their clutches.

Their object was definite, and if the sight of the low gallery in which I lay, should suggest to them all its possibilities as a hiding-place, I should know in just one moment more what it is for the helpless quarry to feel the clutch of the captor.

Or if occasion arises for slowing down in a crowded street, the same kind of driver throws out his clutch and applies the brakes with the throttle wide open so the motor can race unhindered.

" Then, after a few moments, making a final clutch at economy before the warmth and the whisky subdued him altogether: "Say, Nicholas, have you gothasn't the Ol' Chief got anyless glorious breeches than those?" "Hey?" "Anything little cheaper?" "Nuh," says Nicholas.

The terror plucked him from his sleep; for a moment he wrestled and struggled to raise his head from the pillow and loosen the clutch of the night-hag who had suddenly seized him, and with choking throat and streaming brow he sat up in bed.

For while the English government had fostered slavery prior to the Revolution, and had only a few years before Douglass's visit abolished it in its own colonies, this wretched system had never fastened its clutches upon the home islands.

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.

And what avails reviling? Such pitch without defiling Can "Prince" or "Patriot" touch? This quicksand unromantic Closes on him, the Antic, Whose hands with gestures frantic Contiguous coat-tails clutch.

Reno headed the retreat, and they tore pell mell across the valley, and at the new ford they were lucky to strike, there was great confusion, it being every man for himself, and the devil take the hindmost; and, as is usually the case, the (red) devil got his clutches on more than one.

Without a word, but with a good deal of apparent reluctance, he took the long, bony hand in his, and probably, would have instantly dropped it again, had not Mrs Keswick given him a most hearty clutch, and a vigorous and long-continued shake.

The next instant a great rock reared like a living thing in his face; he plunged against it, was beaten over it, and again he was going downdownin that deadly clutch of maelstrom and undertow.

Edward still held his clutch of Margaret's arm.

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

"I am afraid you are rather wet," the stranger said in a tone of rueful apology, keeping his clutch on Katherine as she struggled to a kneeling posture.

For the first time she knew the cold clutch of despair at her heart.

It gained upon all, it laid its clutch upon Shere Ali.

And you may have it correct today and tomorrow it will need readjustment, caused by the wear in the shoes; you will have to learn the clutch by patience and experience.

Then he loosed his clutch and disappeared.

But he was a man of tough nerve, and maintained his clutch upon it.

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.

the three letters L, I, E. The child to whom they are offered very probably clutches at both.

Remember that, any time you shift the gears, you'll have to pull the clutch.

The cold was no longer felt, but her arms did not at once relax their instinctive clutch, and the little one slumbered on.

The men who were guarding the boys evidently knew what was taking place, for they released their clutches on the lads and moved away.

Even the Big Warrior, who had been true to the whites, and remained faithful during the war, was for the moment visibly affected, and more than once I saw his huge hand clutch, spasmodically, the handle of his knife....