" He caught Dionus" sleeve with claw-like fingers.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Coming of Conan The Cimmerian]

Zelaya's claw-like hand seized the girl's shoulder.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ruth Fielding and the Gypsies The Missing Pearl Necklace] Reference

And he saw the claw-like hands clench spasmodically.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Monster] Reference

His hands were as small as a woman's, but claw-like.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Scarlet Feather] Reference

The long arms ended in claw-like travesties of hands.    From Wordnik.com.  [Devil Crystals of Arret] Reference

Its hands and feet were claw-like travesties of human members.    From Wordnik.com.  [Devil Crystals of Arret] Reference

What is that dark claw-like shape emerging from her decolletage?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Tony Blair: The Next Labour Prime Minister?] Reference

This thing, with the ferocious claw-like nose and chin, was a female.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Idler Magazine, Volume III, April 1893 An Illustrated Monthly] Reference

They looked much like if your hand were bent in a claw-like posture.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Jul 17, 2004] Reference

It means to say, that he robs and pillages us with his claw-like hands.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Eleven Comedies, Volume 1] Reference

When he pointed to Donna, she clasped her claw-like hands beneath her chin.    From Wordnik.com.  [Standoff]

She raised her claw-like hand and struck the bold girl sharply upon the cheek.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ruth Fielding and the Gypsies The Missing Pearl Necklace] Reference

His little friend took his claw-like hand tenderly in hers and stroked it gently.    From Wordnik.com.  [Little Pollie Or a Bunch of Violets] Reference

The woman stretched a claw-like hand forth and laid it on the shoulder of the girl.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Shield of Silence] Reference

I inquired cheerfully, and he, staying his claw-like hand in mid-air, made reply.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Holiday in the Happy Valley with Pen and Pencil] Reference

He bit and tore at Larry with strong claw-like fingers and lashed out with his feet.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Place in the Sun] Reference

With small, claw-like hands, the old man drew a glass of beer, and sat it on the bar.    From Wordnik.com.  [BEFORE THE NEBRASKA SEA] Reference

White, claw-like hand clutched at the drunken curtain and ripped it from its fastenings.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Fool There Was] Reference

Rosemary of a bird and little, eager claw-like hands that were strangely bird-like, too.    From Wordnik.com.  [Rainbow Hill] Reference

Weakly, fearfully, the claw-like hands worked while Nancy stood fascinated and bewildered.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Shield of Silence] Reference

Then the claw-like hands at his throat roused the young cowpuncher to a frenzy of madness.    From Wordnik.com.  [People of the Dark]

He clutched the stuffed rabbit skin in one claw-like hand and his face was warped with fury.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Bane of The Black Sword]

But he sure does know how to bite the gnarled, hand-esque, claw-like appendage that feeds him.    From Wordnik.com.  [Joseph Minton Amann and Tom Breuer: Media Drunk Tank: Dreams of My Fellatio] Reference

"Look - here's something for you, " and he pressed the two half-crowns into her claw-like hand.    From Wordnik.com.  [Five Go To Billycock Hill]

She was dressed in a black cloak, from which protruded her long skinny arms and claw-like hands.    From Wordnik.com.  [More Tales in the Land of Nursery Rhyme] Reference

He carefully extricated a bottle of cognac and pried out the cork with stiff, claw-like fingers.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Glass Books of the Dream Eaters]

An arm shot out and a claw-like hand suddenly gripped his shoulder in a swift, steel-like movement.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Monster] Reference

"You shall!" hissed the horrible old creature, suddenly stretching forth one of her claw-like hands.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ruth Fielding and the Gypsies The Missing Pearl Necklace] Reference

And ever Iko pointed further and further up his finger until at last they had reached his claw-like nail.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Book of Missionary Heroes] Reference

From the dark shadows of his study the spectre of the tempter lifted its claw-like hand against his reason.    From Wordnik.com.  [The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Volume 12] Reference

"I had already heard of thee," said Leh Shin, scratching his loose sleeves with his long, claw-like fingers.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Pointing Man A Burmese Mystery] Reference

He held out his claw-like hand -- so dirty that Pollie almost shrank from touching it as she gave him the violets.    From Wordnik.com.  [Little Pollie Or a Bunch of Violets] Reference

An old, tattered shawl covered her bent shoulders, and the hand that grasped the knotted stick was claw-like and emaciated.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Outdoor Girls on Pine Island Or, A Cave and What It Contained] Reference

They trod one another under foot; they yelled and screamed in their terror; they tore each other with their claw-like fingers.    From Wordnik.com.  [Edison's Conquest of Mars] Reference

He was horribly afraid of Lois Ann for no reason that he could have given; he was afraid of her eyes -- her thin, claw-like hands.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Man Thou Gavest] Reference

Dorchester Academy; and as she put her old, gaunt, claw-like black fingers on the face of the delicate, refined academy teacher, Aunt.    From Wordnik.com.  [The American Missionary — Volume 54, No. 3, July, 1900] Reference

Nothing but her arm was out, and from the nervous grip of her little claw-like fingers the old man could only guess her terrible fear.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Bishop of Cottontown A Story of the Southern Cotton Mills] Reference

She held out a rather claw-like little hand for Nan to shake, and the unexpectedly tense and energetic grip of it was somewhat surprising.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Moon out of Reach] Reference