| 单词 | clawlike |
| 例句 | The Orc’s clawlike hand gripped Pippin’s arms like iron; the nails bit into him. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z She waggled the long fingers slowly, displaying the clawlike nails. Coraline 2002-02-24T00:00:00Z His teeth were bared and his clawlike fingernails suddenly became longer and sharper, like talons. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z Then, following a set of instructions I’d programmed into it, the little droid used its clawlike index finger to enter a series of commands on the device’s control panel. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z He ran forward to a boulder, ducked, looked out: dead men, ten, fifteen, lumps of gray, blood spattering everywhere, dirty white skin, a clawlike hand, black sightless eyes. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z Hideous pictures flashed through his mind—a blood-streaked face, clawlike hands grabbing for his throat. I Survived the American Revolution, 1776 2017-08-01T00:00:00Z His clawlike hand grasped a walking stick carved into the shape of a serpent. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z The little creature shifted its clawlike feet on the stem, flapped its brown wings, and trilled again. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z The little finger on his left hand had a long, clawlike nail. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z In their clawlike hands many of them gripped hatchets and maces with spiked heads. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z One minute, it had looked like an arm sticking out of the waves; now it was an ominous black-granite mountain surrounded by half-submerged clawlike reefs. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z Black put one of his clawlike hands inside his robes and took out a crumpled piece of paper, which he smoothed flat and held out to show the others. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z His fingers curl, clawlike, as his knuckle raps one word and another. Rules 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z He regarded her with a concerned shake of his head, the jowly folds under his chin waving back and forth, his clawlike hands clutching the sheets. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z The heads had vulture-faces, and on their great knees were laid clawlike hands. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z The great platen, with its clawlike flanges, was suspended at rest. Kelmscott Press, a Thing of Iron Musculature, Is to Be Sold 2013-12-05T15:00:01Z Interestingly, in an oil on canvas of the same title, Faust's tempter is more dapper and attractive in appearance — although his curled, clawlike right hand still gives his true nature away. Gabriel von Max's monkeys and martyrs, at Frye Art Museum 2011-07-27T22:15:04Z Park staff, working with personnel from Northwest Helicopters in an MD-530 helicopter, minimized risk to rescuers by using a remote-controlled Heli-Tech grabber, a clawlike device suspended from a 100 foot long line. Three bodies recovered on Rainier, believed to be from May accident 2014-08-20T04:00:00Z Her misshapen sculptures refer to ants and spiders in their titles and sometimes sprout clawlike hooks from their elbows. Critic’s Notebook: The Effort to Resurrect the Sculptor Germaine Richier 2014-03-20T21:41:29Z At Mugler, Lady Gaga sported a matte black, clawlike Minx design. T Magazine: America's Got Talons 2011-04-28T21:33:57Z In his 1958 “House With Trees,” with its clawlike tree branches and peaked roof seen in sharp black silhouette, nature and civilization seem equally demonic. Art Review: ‘Radical Terrain’ at the Rubin Museum of Art 2012-12-27T20:03:54Z But Nevena, whose fingers end in black, clawlike nails, will never again be accepted as fully human. Review | Folk-horror film ‘You Won’t Be Alone’: Scares with a side of poetry 2022-03-30T04:00:00Z But she was alarmed to see that her left hand appeared more clawlike. She fell more than 30 times. For three years, doctors couldn’t explain why. 2020-04-24T04:00:00Z The wheel had six soft-rubber clawlike “obtainers” that are able to cup the berries and pivot, imitating the popping action that human pickers make with their wrists. The Age of Robot Farmers 2019-04-08T04:00:00Z On “Catastrophe,” whose second season just began streaming on Amazon, love is never declared; it is silently expressed when, say, one partner cuts the other’s “clawlike” toenails. The Brutal Romantic Behind “Catastrophe” 2016-04-25T04:00:00Z During the Cambrian period, they slashed their way through the sea, using pincers and clawlike appendages to tear apart their prey before shoving it into their mouths. 'Mother Lode' of Fossils Discovered in Canada 2014-02-11T22:08:00Z Bent, toothless, with unkempt hair and clawlike hands, she looked the picture of a Witch indeed. Great Opera Stories Taken from Original Sources in Old German 2012-01-25T03:00:33.660Z From the folds of his garment he stretched forth a clawlike hand. The Tour A Story of Ancient Egypt 2011-09-23T02:00:23.040Z But I don’t care for any dealings with him; those little clawlike hands of his rake in all they touch. The Wayfarers 2011-08-28T02:00:32.867Z Tess put the silver and pennies in the old woman’s clawlike hand and the longed-for basket came into her possession. The Corner House Girls Among the Gypsies How They Met, What Happened, and How It Ended 2011-06-14T02:00:19.837Z The Slav released his clawlike hold and ran, sobbing, toward his prostrate brother. The Snow-Burner 2011-05-17T02:00:21.527Z He deposited his shapeless hat on the floor, tapped his red kopdoek with a clawlike forefinger, and waited for an inspiration. Outa Karel's Stories South African Folk-Lore Tales 2011-03-14T03:01:04.340Z The Storm Wind's wicked spell had changed him, and the Little Brown Man with flaming eye and clawlike hand was very fierce and terrible to look upon. The Green Forest Fairy Book 2011-03-04T03:01:06.297Z To the east is the Mississippi and its long, clawlike delta that seems to point to the site where the Deepwater Horizon rig exploded and sank. Gulf coast oil slick headed for Grand Isle, Louisiana 2010-05-23T04:00:00Z Then, standing erect, it flung up great clawlike hands with a ghoulish gesture of disappointment, moaning lamentably to the stars! Deep Moat Grange It was a gray, wrinkled featureless thing, except for pinpoint eyes and the tiny clawlike legs upon which it scurried. The World with a Thousand Moons He stretched forth a clawlike hand as he spoke, and pinched the thumb and finger wickedly together. Frances of the Ranges The Old Ranchman's Treasure Donald's vision suddenly became riveted upon the clawlike right hand of the hag. The Wilderness Trail She placed her long, clawlike fingers upon his shoulders, and kissed him on both cheeks. The Moving Finger When he had finished, Sir Basil reached out his clawlike hand to him. Astounding Stories of Super-Science, December 1930 The Governor’s son watched every muscle of Shanklin’s face as if to read the gambler’s intention in his eye, while his hand, stiff-set and clawlike, hovered within three inches of his pistol-butt. Claim Number One It proved to be weeding with a clawlike thing that, wielded by Aunt Jessica’s right hand, grubbed out weeds as fast as she could toss them into a basket with her left. The Camerons of Highboro And each one held in long clawlike hands a thing of shining metal—a lava tip like the one he had found projected and ended in the hissing line of green. Two Thousand Miles Below Instantly the demon sprang forward, and, bending Its clawlike hands, clutched them around some little throat that was not there,—but I could see it in my mind. Masterpieces of Mystery Riddle Stories He quite excelled me in manipulating his "webs"—his tremendous hind feet with long, clawlike toes, covered with stiff and, I judged, waterproof hairs. A Mountain Boyhood O’Hara eased the pressure slightly but retained his hold upon the clawlike hands. Astounding Stories of Super-Science, March 1930 To this end she made weird passes through the air with her clawlike hands, crying in a whispered, high-pitched wail the word, "Labbayk, labbayk," an Arabian word meaning "Here am I." A Forest Hearth: A Romance of Indiana in the Thirties Luckily, on the smooth marble it could not get an efficient grip with its clawlike arms. Astounding Stories of Super-Science July 1930 Guichard stood behind him, a clawlike hand perched on his master's shoulder. Shaman It opened instantly, and a long clawlike hand reached forth, accepted the yellow envelope from the operator's hand, and slowly, silently withdrew, the door closing as quickly and as quietly as it had opened. Peter the Brazen A Mystery Story of Modern China She turned to Simon and seized his wrist with her clawlike hand. The Saracen: Land of the Infidel I know just what I would like,” sighed Henrietta, clasping her clawlike hands. The Campfire Girls of Roselawn Or, a Strange Message from the Air She followed the direction of his eyes, and saw long, clawlike marks on the floor, radiating from the sepia. Astounding Stories of Super-Science July 1930 The joints are enlarged, and irregular and stiff; the fingers become drawn over toward the little finger, or bent toward the palm, and are wasted and clawlike. The Home Medical Library, Volume II (of VI) The King of the Pipes put his clawlike hand upon her shoulder again. Ruth Fielding on the St. Lawrence The Queer Old Man of the Thousand Islands The clawlike fingers began to straighten; imperceptibly at first, and then with a spasmodic motion that flexed the muscles in little jerks. 'Drag' Harlan The clawlike hands dropped from the freckled face. The Campfire Girls of Roselawn Or, a Strange Message from the Air And something was tearing, clawlike, at his throat and at his vitals. The Rich Little Poor Boy Slowly, deliberately, a clawlike hand was withdrawn from a fold of the blanket, and the feeble rays of the fire glinted weakly upon the cold, gray steel of a polished blade. The Promise A Tale of the Great Northwest Then a clawlike hand came out through the bushes and seemed to reach toward him, while a howl that was blood-curdling came from the creature's lips. Frank Merriwell's Cruise He fairly yelled the last words, and stiffened, holding 202 the fingers of his right hand clawlike, above the butt of the holstered pistol. 'Drag' Harlan Rakkan bowed politely, sparing Lancaster the decision of whether or not to shake the clawlike hand. Security Joseph's, that clawlike hand, with the broken, stained and shapeless nails, which once had wielded a brush that created the laughing face of Irina Petrovna—the woman who had brought him down to death? The Genius A skinny hand was withdrawn from the blanket and the clawlike fingers clutched a fragment of broken knife-blade. The Promise A Tale of the Great Northwest The monster snarled with satisfaction and sought to clutch his throat with those clawlike hands. Frank Merriwell's Cruise It went only a few inches; it was still far below the holster when Latimer’s clawlike fingers descended to the butt of his own weapon. 'Drag' Harlan Teddy Malone, Morris, Dominick, and Jabez leaned eagerly over the bows with outstretched arms and clawlike fingers. The Island Queen “I will trust you, of course,” answered Harry, reaching out at the cost of some pain and squeezing the old creature’s clawlike hand. Harry Escombe A Tale of Adventure in Peru Then he pushed the clawlike hands of the excited jeweler away from his lapels. The Cross-Cut They trod one another under foot; they yelled and screamed in their terror; they tore each other with their clawlike fingers. Edison's Conquest of Mars "This Italian next door says they're advertising for, cotton pickers in Texas," Daddy said, cradling Sally in one arm while he held her little clawlike hand in his, feeling its fever. Across the Fruited Plain Tom had rigged up a jointed, clawlike mechanical arrangement with sensitive diaphragms in its "finger tips." Tom Swift and The Visitor from Planet X The clawlike hands or handlike claws lifted him and thrust him on the way that was being chosen for him. Operation Terror He had tentatively extended his right hand, the fingers spread, clawlike. The Trail Horde The eyes of all were centered on the grimy, stiffened, clawlike fist. The Luck of the Mounted A Tale of the Royal Northwest Mounted Police As he spoke he stretched forth his hand and caught in his clawlike grasp the dainty white ruff that encircled Madge's neck. Dorothy Vernon of Haddon Hall Then he fell upon his knees, and, with his clawlike fingers, scraped more earth from the rock whence he had chipped it. In Old Kentucky Then his boat had drifted away and since then he had lived the life of a wild man, setting snares for rabbits and partridges, and eating them raw, tearing them with his clawlike fingers. The Boy Inventors' Radio Telephone Within half a dozen paces of them, in the full moonlight, the shambling figure halted and salaamed with clawlike hands extended. The Lamp in the Desert She took his face between her two clawlike fingers. Broken to the Plow His clawlike fingers clutched, in rigor mortis, her abandoned robe. Port O' Gold A History-Romance of the San Francisco Argonauts The old fellow grunted and turned the can over and over in clawlike hands, and said he wanted a match and a paper. Casey Ryan His hands were busy with the bandages, dexterous, clawlike hands that looked as if they were delving for treasure. The Top of the World Still laughing, they sat down in the hot sand, near the clawlike distortions of the acacias. The Flying Legion At that moment Mrs. Hilmer's clawlike fingers closed over her husband's mangled thumb with a clutch of triumph and she had turned with a painful twist to dart her venomous scorn at Helen. Broken to the Plow Perhaps the baby was fearful, too, for it reached up its little clawlike hands and clasped her tight about the neck. The Precipice The snapping black eyes under the ruffle were never still, and the clawlike little hands were never at rest. Round Anvil Rock A Romance The old terrorist, raising an uncertain and clawlike hand, gave a swaggering tilt to a black felt sombrero shading the hollows and ridges of his wasted face. The Secret Agent a Simple Tale Straight across the stream they were pulled, their clawlike ends coming to a rest on the opposite bank. Tom Swift and His War Tank, or, Doing His Bit for Uncle Sam About him on all sides men were tearing their meat with clawlike hands, digging their fangs into it in wolfish ferocity… A dishpan of rice was circulated. Broken to the Plow The brute was quite close now—creeping with clawlike hands extended toward her around the end of the altar. Return of Tarzan It was quite evident from his very mannerism that Thurid had keenly guessed the man's weakness—even the clawlike, clutching movement of the fingers betokened the avariciousness of the miser. Warlord of Mars Constantly its clawlike fingers played with one or the other of these weapons. Out of Time's Abyss The grippers also had a sort of clawlike arrangement on either end, working on the principle of an "orange-peel" shovel, and these claws were designed to grip the earth to prevent slipping. Tom Swift and His War Tank, or, Doing His Bit for Uncle Sam After that they made certain there never was a gun within reach of Ladd's clutching, clawlike hands. Desert Gold "I will try," said the Indian, and stretched forth a clawlike hand for the money. The Mucker I took one long look at his lean, clawlike fingers, and put both hands around my neck. Laddie; a true blue story Loud wails arose, great wings opened and closed with a loud, beating noise and many clawlike hands reached forth to clutch him. Out of Time's Abyss "Let me alone," he said, sternly, forcibly removing his uncle's hands from his face, but not before the clawlike nails had drawn blood. Brave and Bold The Fortunes of Robert Rushton And patted the little clawlike hand, and the bit of white hair beneath the fluted cap, and a bit of old lace fastened with an old ivory cameo and covering the old throat. Humoresque A Laugh on Life with a Tear Behind It One bony arm with its clawlike hand encircled the rag doll that she had held that day when Helen took the two children into the country. Helen of the Old House One sprawling, spatulate, clawlike hand lay on the forest moss. Darkness and Dawn Instantly the clawlike fingers released their hold, and the creature sank limply to the floor beside Bradley, who lay for several minutes gasping painfully in an effort to regain his breath. Out of Time's Abyss With a hoarse cry like that of an animal deprived of its young, his uncle sprang upon him, and fastened his clawlike nails in the face of his burly nephew. Brave and Bold The Fortunes of Robert Rushton It was impossible to conceive of that keen, sharp eye and that clawlike hand sending a bullet far from the center of the target. Bull Hunter The tiny, clawlike fingers plucked at the coverlet. Helen of the Old House It appeared to be supporting itself by two clawlike hands upon the windowsill. The House on the Borderland Nodding gloomily, Simon rose and went out, whereupon the Ancient leaned over and laid a yellow, clawlike hand upon my arm. The Broad Highway With a rough gesture he put his clawlike hand under her delicate chin, forcing her to turn round and to look at him. I Will Repay His hands grew clawlike as he reached for the guns. The Rainbow Trail His clawlike hand swept out for the belt, lifted and weighed it. The Border Legion He shrugged his shoulders and made play with his clawlike hands, as if he understood me not. To Have and to Hold The girl fought down a physical shudder when Aunt Kate's clawlike hands seized her by both shoulders, and she stooped to kiss the visitor. Nan Sherwood at Pine Camp or, the Old Lumberman's Secret Amont these, a few pencil jottings for his great defence of Charlotte Corday were eagerly seized upon by Merlin, and his grimy, clawlike hands fastened upon this scrap of paper, as upon a welcome prey. I Will Repay "You tell me what you know!" she stormed, her clawlike hands shaking the top rail of the fence. Janice Day the Young Homemaker |
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