After Ebenezer felt rested, he found his ear of corn again, nibbled a bit at it to stay his hunger, then dragged his tired body home, and clawing his way heavily up into the home tree, rolled himself up comfortably and slept.
Half-scrambled back to his feet and out of balance, he was caught by Bert's fist, and this time wentclawing down the slope that was slippery with short, dry grass.
Without pause, as the returning sea rushed up, he was around the sharp corner and clawing upward hand and foot to escape being caught.
With his other hand he shoved the kobun's face away, clawing at his eyes, and again they rolled over, with the Japanese once more against the carpet.
In a flash of lightning Vance saw hands clawing at a neck.
He was there in one mad scramble and had dragged the fellow from her; was astride the rubbery inflated covering, clawing and tearing.
Blaine loosed himself and pounced on him, swinging one of his hooks in a sweeping, clawing arc.
The youngster had reached the extreme end of the limb, and he was clawing madly at the rock to obtain a footing.
I sat down while the Fijian gathered a pile of rotten wood, but before he could set fire to the heap I was on my feet clawing my way into the darkness in front.
After flapping him with their wings, and pecking him with their filthy beaks, and clawing him with their talons, the zamuros saw it was all to no purpose, and desisted.
He was but a few feet from it, but it cost him a good deal of pulling and dragging, and clawing the sand, before he could get into it.
He tore the drugget from the floor, and in an instant was down on his hands and knees clawing at each of the squares of wood beneath it.
He shrank away and then fell forward upon the table, coughing furiously and clawing among the papers.
To these belonged the frowzy serving-women; to these the rows of ash-barrels, in which the decrepit children and mothers of the streets were clawing for bits of coal.
A noise made itself heard in the next room, as if the door were furtively opened, and a faint sound of tiptoeing and of hands clawing on a table.
Becton would have liked to answer her according to her cattishness, with a good clawing sarcasm that would leave its smart in her pride; but he was being good, and he could not change all at once.
The man came abreast of them, between Rick and the building, and in that moment, clawing wildly for balance, Rick lost his hold on Scotty's shoulder.
The fierce animal had drawn the turtle up out of the water and was clawingbetween the two shells trying to scratch the meat out.
Meanwhile the panthers were clawing and kicking at the rays, making frightful splashes in the water and tossing up ray fish by the barrel full.
Nero tried hard enough, jumping up and clawing at the dirt, some of which got into his eyes, but jump though he did, and roar though he did, he could not get out.
So he splashed and scrambled his way to shore, clawing and spluttering and half choking, for lions are not good swimmers.
They moved along a path beaten through fern and clawing blackberry vine toward the camp, Benton carrying the two grips.
A draft from an open window fluttered some sheet music down off the piano rack, and Stella rescued it from Jack Junior's tiny, clawing hands.
Then why are hands clawing near my back as if a panther was near?
I’ve always hankered to git a chance at ye,” he panted, clawing at Sevier’s eyes.
Now he rode recklessly, bending low to escape the clawing boughs and trusting to his horse to keep to the path.
Then came Ward, staggering like a drunken man and clawing at his left shoulder.
A dancer went down, coughing and clawing at his throat, while yelps of surprise and pain told me others had been wounded.
From the Granville cabin a gun roared loudly; and an Indian, clawing at his bloody breast, shot up in the heart of a clump of bushes and pitched forward on his face.
The other, startled by the unexpected attack, and scarcely realizing even yet the nature of his antagonist, struggled blindly to escape the fingers clawing at him, and flung one hand down to the knife in his belt.
The negro ended the affair in his own way, clawing blindly at the combatants in the darkness, and finally, determining which was the enemy, he struck the gambler with the stock of his gun, laying him out unconscious.
An instant later his clawing fingers caught at a thrusting root, his feet struck bottom, and with a strangled sob he half pulled himself, half crawled onto a slippery shelf of rock.
Clawing desperately at the smooth surface of the bank, he felt himself plunging down the deep incline, heard a smothered cry from Shrimp, and struck the water with a tremendous splash.
Of course, when I heard her voice, I was upstairs two steps at a time, with the cat under my arm clawing like a vixen.
This time Flitch did not go back, but toppled forward, clawingat Bullard's waistcoat, and reached the floor with a thud and a single gasp.
He fell, clawing at the wall, and lay stupefied, at the mercy of the unknown, who promptly proceeded with whipcord to truss him up both neatly and securely.
In the few seconds of liberty, Plutina abandoned blows, and resorted to savage clawing at the evil face.
She felt Death clawing at her over the brow of the ledge, fierce to drag her into the depths.
Clawing frantically, Sandy clutched at the base of the enormous pectoral fin, clinging with maniacal strength, mad with fear.
And, out of the north, before the wind, the sea advanced in the long, smooth folds of a weighty swell over which the Karluk wore her way into the breeze, clawing steadily on to the Aleutians and a passage through to Bering Strait.
Wulfrey's nose came two clammy black hands clawingnervously at the bulwark.
It was interesting to see how, once having got her under way, they could allow nothing to stop them; but needs must crash through obstructions regardless; slipping scrambling, literally clawing their way along.
He lay on the ground sobbing and cursing; striving to drag himself along with clawing hands.
