Your comment about Mark T. being a "snake in your talons" is a gem.    From Wordnik.com.  [Government blues] Reference

She discovered quickly that seizing rigging in her talons was a bad idea.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ship Of Destiny]

To rend their talons from the adhesive soil.    From Wordnik.com.  [Canto I] Reference

In his talons was the small body of Brimstone.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Darkest Edge of Dawn] Reference

But certainly Toni had her talons deep into Riggs.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Widow In A Deadly Web] Reference

You're in our talons now, and we're never letting go.    From Wordnik.com.  [Bowerbirds Rock the 'BPP' Jukebox] Reference

"Because of your talons," somebody ventured to explain.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lippincott's Magazine, November 1885] Reference

  He is holding a baby vulture by her matchstick talons.    From Wordnik.com.  [After the Badlands] Reference

Our eagle proudly soars to-day, his talons bathed in gore.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Continental Monthly, Vol. 6, No 2, August, 1864 Devoted to Literature and National Policy] Reference

A hawk perched on theTowerofLondon, in its talons a white pigeon.    From Wordnik.com.  [An Admirer Visits Paul Bowles] Reference

The hawk dropped like a thunderbolt and caught him in its talons 143.    From Wordnik.com.  [Followers of the Trail] Reference

Three nasty looking fingers they were, with nails as long as talons. '.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Beetle] Reference

Later, he produced Mut-mut's baag-nouk, laying it, talons upward, beside the Webley.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ambrotox and Limping Dick] Reference

A rabbit fallen from a hawk's claws, it's fur bloodied where talons pierced the skin?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Refuge] Reference

A shoulder patch for sale shows an American bald eagle sharpening its talons with a file.    From Wordnik.com.  [Waiting For Showtime] Reference

The world that inflicted this global war upon her might withdraw its talons from her soul.    From Wordnik.com.  [Creatures: A Memoir] Reference

He had but one eye, his teeth were long and sharp, and his nails like the talons of a bird.    From Wordnik.com.  [Favorite Fairy Tales] Reference

I feel her talons pierce the light wool of my pants when she, at long last, steps onto my lap.    From Wordnik.com.  [Early Thoughts on the Oedipus Complex] Reference

I could see her talons clamping around the table's edge, like she wanted to lunge at my throat.    From Wordnik.com.  [Women Making Love to Monsters] Reference

From somewhere behind him a set of talons snatched out and ripped through the back of his shirt.    From Wordnik.com.  [David and the Phoenix] Reference

The golden wings spread, the golden neck curved back, the golden talons pushed against the rock.    From Wordnik.com.  [David and the Phoenix] Reference

But she scorned his offer, and the eagle made a swoop downward to pick up the Sampo in its talons.    From Wordnik.com.  [Finnish Legends for English Children] Reference

So Ilmarinen went to work and forged an eagle in his smithy: talons of iron, beak of steel and copper.    From Wordnik.com.  [Finnish Legends for English Children] Reference

Page 130 fine gold-chased ornament upon it representing a flying eagle gripping in its talons a small animal.    From Wordnik.com.  [The American Journal of Archaeology, 1893-1] Reference

And all of it, from crest to talons, was a burnished gold that reflected the sun in a thousand dazzling lights.    From Wordnik.com.  [David and the Phoenix] Reference

A hawk with a flapping fish clutched in its talons scaled in from the south and disappeared among the evergreens.    From Wordnik.com.  [Jim Spurling, Fisherman or Making Good] Reference

But the guardian male resented this bold intrusion, and attacked him with beak and talons and fiercely-flapping wings.    From Wordnik.com.  [Kiddie the Scout] Reference

It dug its talons deep into the flanks of an ox that had stampeded in the wrong direction and was lagging behind the others.    From Wordnik.com.  [Jewish Fairy Tales and Legends] Reference

The brain of the man has proved a better weapon than beak or talons, and so it has come to pass that man is lord of creation.    From Wordnik.com.  [By the Christmas Fire] Reference

Eagle, holding many lords and ladies in its talons while it soared far above the lands, and those on the land were worshiping it.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Revolutions of Time] Reference

Papers could find nothing to sink their talons into except for his wife Cherie's vaguely New Age ideas and sometimes odd fashion sense.    From Wordnik.com.  [Periscope] Reference