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Letter "C" » claws
«A young woman has young claws, well sharpened. If she has character, that is. And if she hasn't so much the worse for you.»
«Death makes angels of us all and gives us wings where we had shoulders smooth as ravens claws.»
Author: Jim Morrison
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Poet,
Singer)
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About:
Death and dying
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Keywords:
angels,
Angel of death,
claw,
clawing,
claws,
death angel,
ravens,
shoulders,
shoulder in,
smooth,
The Raven,
The Ravens,
wings
«Their steaks are often good, but the lobsters-with claws the size of Arnold Schwarzenegger's forearms-are as glazed and tough as most of the customers.»
Author: Malcolm S. Forbes
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About:
Restaurants
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Keywords:
Arnold,
Arnold Schwarzenegger,
claw,
claws,
forearm,
forearmed,
forearms,
glaze,
glazed,
glazing,
lobster,
lobsters,
steaks
«Be on the alert, like the red ant that moves with its claws wide open. Uganda»
Author: African Proverb
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Keywords:
alert,
alerting,
ant,
be on,
claw,
clawing,
claws,
moves,
on the alert,
Open Wide,
red,
The Ants,
Uganda,
wide-open,
wide
«The same hour was the thing fulfilled upon Nebuchadnezzar: and he was driven from men, and did eat grass as oxen, and his body was wet with the dew of heaven, till his hairs were grown like eagles' feathers, and his nails like birds' claws.»
«And every beast that parteth the hoof, and cleaveth the cleft into two claws, and cheweth the cud among the beasts, that ye shall eat.»
Author: Bible
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Keywords:
beasts,
claw,
claws,
cleaved,
cleaving,
cleft,
clefts,
cud,
hoof,
hoofs,
hooves
«Do not put your trust in rivers, men who carry weapons, beasts with claws or horns, women, and members of a royal family.»
«For luck you carried a horse chestnut and a rabbit's foot in your right pocket. The fur had been worn off the rabbit's foot long ago and the bones and the sinews were polished by the wear. The claws scratched in the lining of your pocket and you knew your luck was still there.»
Author: Ernest Hemingway
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Keywords:
carry off,
chestnut,
claw,
claws,
fur,
horse chestnut,
lining,
long ago,
Long line,
polished,
rabbit,
scratched,
sinew,
sinews,
wear off,
worn
«Nature will come through the claws, and the hound will follow the hare»
«I should have been a pair of ragged claws / Scuttling across the floors of silent seas.»
Author: T.S. Eliot
(
Critic,
Editor,
Playwright,
Poet)
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Keywords:
claw,
claws,
floors,
pair,
ragged,
scuttle,
scuttled,
Scuttling,
seas