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In a minute he began to clean it. Everybody laughed, for it was funny to watch him. He would take the skin of the wing in his mouth and pull and stretch it as if it were rubber. He washed it with his tiny tongue. Then he washed his fur. You see, Flitter is very neat. With the little claw of his thumb he scratched his head and combed his hair.
By this time the Scud was within a mile of the shore, on which the gale was blowing at right angles, with a violence that forbade the idea of showing any additional canvas with a view to claw off.
"If you attempt to pass, the snake will strike you and the owl will tear you. The spirit of wisdom is in our presence. The Stone God has already told me your fate. It is worth your while to hear it." Rita placed her trembling hand in the hag's claw.
It did not take much to cause Bunny to change his mind or his plans when there was any fun to be had. For a while he forgot about looking for red paint to put on his face to make him look funny when he played Mr. Punch, with the hollow lobster claw on his nose. Just now the joy of sliding down the banister rail seemed to be the best in the world.
This claw of the beast was rapped, this hair of the devil was pulled by Nathan with extreme cleverness. The marquise began to ask herself seriously if, up to the present time, she had not been the dupe of her head, and whether her education was complete. Vice what is it? Possibly only the desire to know everything.
Rosamund and her youngsters! What a chance to put something between them and destitution when he had joined the majority! And so he said: "We don't want your silly ships." That claw of a hand waved in deprecation. "They're very good ships doing quite well. It's only my wretched health. If I were a strong man I shouldn't dream...." "What d'you want for 'em?"
The horn of the unicorn, the claw of the griffin, and other relics of equal verity and value, were sought eagerly by those rich enough to procure them, and when obtained were believed to ensure much good fortune to the possessor. A fear of the “evil eye” that bugbear which still disturbs the happiness of the lower class Italians and of the Eastern nations generally was carefully provided against.
She doesn't like one single thing; she hates the damp cave, the rats running over her bare legs, the stiff skin garments, the eating of half-raw meat, her husband's bushy face, the constant battles, and the worship of the spirits who will hoodoo her unless she gives the priests her best claw necklace. Her man protests, 'But it can't all be wrong! and he thinks he has reduced her to absurdity.
Another claw emerged and the neck relaxed its posture of listening reconnoissance. Then, presto, Llewellyn was waddling around like a lumbering old ferry boat and heading straight for the lake.
It will grow again, like a crab's claw." "Thou art a fiend." And Hereward turned away, sulky, and half afraid. "Very like. No man knows what a devil he is, till he tries." "What dost mean?" and Hereward turned angrily back. "Fiends we are all, till God's grace comes." "Little grace has come to thee yet, by thy ungracious tongue." "Rough to men, may be gracious to women."
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