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Penfeather's black brows flickered and his keen eyes glanced from his rent doublet round about the room: "Howbeit he was here, Joel!" said he. "Why then, Cap'n, the dying woman's curse holds and he can't die?" says Bym, clawing at his great beard. "He was here, Joel, in this room," says Penfeather, busy with powder-horn, "man to man, knife to knife and I missed him.
A convulsive scream and a frantic clawing gesture in the direction of her daughter was the immediate reaction, much to the confusion of the codfish, which was only just saved by Nancy from a premature end upon the hearth. Following the rescue, the heroine, who had some shopping to do, began making motions of departure.
Then, before Tom could get ready for another blow, the gobbler landed back of the lad, and came on with another rush. "Look out!" cried Bunny, but his warning came too late. The turkey landed on Tom's back and began nipping and clawing him. "Get off! Get off!" cried the poorhouse lad, trying in vain to reach up with his club and hit the gobbler hard enough to knock him to the ground.
They were traveling the familiar route to the Iroquois country, and in time they came to a fishing-station, the occupants of which greeted the returning warriors uproariously. One of them struck Radisson, who, at a sign from his "keeper," clinched with him. The two fought furiously, wrestling and "clawing one another with hands, tooth, and nails."
Then Mung went down into a waste of Afrik, and came upon the drought Umbool as he sat in the desert upon iron rocks, clawing with miserly grasp at the bones of men and breathing hot. And Mung stood before him as his dry sides heaved, and ever as they sank his hot breath blasted dry sticks and bones. Then Mung said: "Friend of Mung!
She was not strong enough for life, if this was what it brought, these fierce, clawing passions that did not wait for your bidding to go or come, but left you as though you were dead and then pounced on you like tigers. She had not iron in her either to live ruthlessly, or to stamp out that upward leap of flame which meant the renewal of priceless youth and passion.
Believing, I suppose, that he might leave the tramp for a moment, now that I had arrived, he had dashed away to another tree, where he was barking furiously, standing on his hind legs and clawing at the trunk. "What's the matter over there?" I asked. "Oh, that's the other fellow," said Pomona. "He's no harm."
He gave a sort of snarling howl, and jerked out his feet so suddenly that he must have injured himself still more by doing so, and, with a relief that can hardly be understood, Ned heard him clawing hastily along the trunk until he reached the land, when he scampered away into the woods, and nothing more was seen of him.
But somehow, as it bounded up and saw the twittering finger and thumb which de Lapp held out behind him, its fury died suddenly away, and we saw it wagging its thumb of a tail and clawing at his knee. "Your dog then, Major?" said he, as its owner came hobbling up. "Ah, it is a fine beast a fine, pretty thing!" The Major was blowing hard, for he had covered the ground nearly as fast as I.
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. By the time Basil and Isabel reached Broadway there were already some omnibuses beginning their long day's travel up and down the handsome, tiresome length of that avenue; but for the most part it was empty.
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