He pointed at the two soldiers with his great hand, extended clawlike. "Well, they--"

In the awful stench of these frightful charnel isles haggard maniacs screamed and gibbered and fought among the torn remnants of their grisly feasts; while on those which contained but clean-picked bones they battled with one another, the weaker furnishing sustenance for the stronger; or with clawlike hands clutched at the bloated bodies that drifted down with the current.

For a long time he lay caressing the emaciated, clawlike thing that had once been the beautiful, shapely white hand of the young Baltimore belle.

Silently, but with the quickness of a tigress the old woman was upon her back, one clawlike paw grasping the wrist which held the dagger.

For a time he could not even speak, but at last regained sufficient composure to tell them how the thing must have swooped silently upon him from above and behind as the first premonition of danger he had received was when the long, clawlike fingers had clutched him beneath either arm.

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.

Remy begins to understand that Elise's "secrets were unmapped mines that exploded when discovered," and tensions rapidly escalate once she tries to extricate herself from Elise's clawlike grip.

The research team flew through stratocumulus clouds at a constant altitude in aircraft equipped with the holographic detector for clouds, or HOLODEC-- a clawlike instrument fixed under the wing of the plane that takes 3D images depicting the shape, size, and spatial position of everything it encounters.

The talons of a clawlike glazed hand mounted above the reservoir shot streams of water into the basin below, where additional groping palms awaited.

He called them "les cancroides," which was later changed to "cheloide" in 1816, referring to the clawlike extension and tendency to extend laterally, like crabs.