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I had to wrestle with it to keep its jaws away from me, and it would have clawed me to death if my wife had not arrived.

He wants to see money clawed back from tax dodgers spent on cutting tax rates for those who have no option but to pay.

With black eyes and a few teeth missing, the euro clawed its way back over the $1. 20 barrier Wednesday morning.

He clawed his way up the wooden window casing to within inches of the feeder but slid down the slippery glass.

He thought some clawed thing clutched at his leg as he yanked himself back out onto the passageway, shaking from more than the cold.

I must have looked at him the wrong way or something, because he hissed and savagely clawed at my face without warning.

Lee clawed his way back in the first, but Lin held his nerve, aggressively attacking the net to wrap up the first game.

Horrible screeches came through the metal as the thing clawed at the door. Chase was covered with sweat and blood.

With a crushing blow from its clawed hand, a wampa is strong enough to snap the neck of even a hardy tauntaun.

Like the rest of the economy, corporate profits have clawed back from the abyss -- but dizzying heights are still far away.

When foreign capital is being clawed back all over the world, the quality of a regulatory regime really starts to matter.

A group of campers said a bear dragged a woman into the woods, clawed her and bit her, then covered her with brush and left.

Slowly, he clawed his way out from under the collapsed building.

Asajj's rage fueled her power, and she clawed her way up to a position of authority on the lawless world of Rattatak.

Lynn Costa clawed both hands through brambles of red and silver streaked hair, then tugged violently at the hem of her royal blue tunic.

The agreement on bankers' pay calls for a large portion of bonuses to be clawed back if bank performance subsequently deteriorates.

If you looked inside his shirt, you could see the long white marks where the devils had clawed him.

Grievous clawed along the hull of his falling flagship to make for the escape pod bay.

But Dow today has clawed back more than half of that decline and was recently up 78 points.

Petals inserted at rim of floral tube, alternating with sepals, crinkled, clawed or not, frequently caducous, rarely absent.

The tiny fingers clawed desperately underneath the edge of the door.

She clawed at my shirt in her temper.

The climber clawed at the cliff surface as he felt himself slipping.

"I believe they do not wish to bargain, " Druzil said, shuffling about from clawed foot to clawed foot on Aballister's shoulder.

Like those of China, Japan's dragons are usually serpentine creatures with clawed feet and lack the wings of their European counterparts.

The save in the second half when he changed direction in mid air and clawed away a certain goal with his left hand was bordering on unfair.

Angered, the bear clawed at the earth in a vain attempt to reach them.

European Union leaders have agreed to seek a global deal for bankers' bonuses to be clawed back if profits fall.

Petals free, white, blue, purple, or greenish yellow, sometimes spotted, ovate-elliptic, ovate-orbicular, or obovate, sometimes clawed.

The nailed or clawed foot of an animal, especially of a quadruped.

This doucai jar is decorated with a blue, three-clawed dragon among leaves and floral scrolls.

She clawed her way up to the brightest star in the troupe.

His face was badly clawed by his little brother.

usually herbivorous land turtles having clawed elephant-like limbs; worldwide in arid area except Australia and Antarctica.

However, this morning the dollar has clawed back some of its overnight losses after some weaker than expected European data.

The Shock Troopers looked like bipedal battleships, their clawed forearms bulging like ladybug carapaces .

The small Baltic country has clawed its way back from a huge economic bust and bank crisis that followed a breakneck boom.

After losing competitiveness for years, industry clawed it back by holding down wage rises and shifting some production abroad.

His guilt clawed at his throat, where the butterfly kisses had brushed their phantom wings.

The carnivorous reptilian have bony ridges along their spines, leathery wings, two clawed legs, and piercing yellow eyes.

Petals white, purplish or dull cream, obovate, apex broadly inflexed, costa red-brown, conspicuous, base clawed.

Petals white or purple, oblong-ovate or cordate-ovate, base cuneate or shortly clawed, apex notched with small incurved lobule.

He was seriously hurt when one of the lions clawed his back .

He wore a living cape that clung to his shoulders with needle-clawed fingers.

Today, my brother got a pet ferret. He told me it had a flexible spine, so I bent it backwards. It farted, and clawed my face.

Petals scarlet, rarely pinkish or white, ovate or suborbicular, base shortly clawed, apex rounded.

The labour Chancellor should have increased family allowances and clawed it back from rich tax payers.

Petals obovoid-orbicular, shortly clawed, apex emarginate.

Petals ovate or obovate, white or purplish-red, base cuneate or shortly clawed, apex incurved and notched.

Petals 3--5, yellow, narrowly obovate, clawed at base, with a nectary pit covered by a scale above claw.

Petals white with purple, suborbicular, ca. 8 mm in diam. , mid-abaxial surface pubescent, base rounded, clawed, margin fimbriate.

Petals pink, suborbicular, slightly shorter than sepals, base long clawed.

He clawed back eventually, giving up drugs and winning a Grammy, his first for a solo album, in 2006.

Petals spatulate, clawed, enfolding stamens.

Only 10% of them had clawed back five years later, while 15% of today's market leaders vaulted to the top during that recession.

Petals obovate-cucullate, ca. as long as sepals, base shortly clawed, apex rounded or emarginate.

Money misspent one year is clawed back the next.

Petals 5 to many, linear, shortly clawed and with nectary pit above base.

Oni are small ugly demons with staring eyes, unkempt red hair and pot-bellies. They have clawed feet, fangs and porcine faces.

Their computer's hard drive was crammed with snapshots of wild beasts-winged, clawed, and hoofed.

Petals white, oblong or spatulate, nearly as long as or somewhat shorter than sepals, base clawed.

Petals obovate, white, medial rib yellow, apex narrow inflexed, base clawed.

inner tepals abaxially longitudinally streaked with purplish green at center, wider than outer ones, clawed at base.

freshwater carnivorous mammal having webbed and clawed feet and dark brown fur.

Petals pinkish, obovate, base shortly clawed, apex rounded.

Petals oblong to broad-ovate, white or purple-red, base clawed, apex narrow, inflexed.

I clawed at the floor, pulling myself along toward the phone.

In the insert shot of Baba's severed hand, those fins were not available so a hairy clawed hand was used instead.

Still, he says he wants his children to appreciate what they have since he 'clawed and scrapped for everything. '

Petals free, blue or purple, sometimes white, obovate, clawed.

Calyx teeth obsolete. Petals white, base shortly clawed.

African clawed frog; in some classifications made the type genus of a separate family Xenopodidae.

She clawed a hole in my shirt in her temper.

Petals 5, free, imbricate, unequal, clawed, adnate from middle to upper part of calyx tube.

Not even the cold blue water, under which we still clawed at each other, could bring relief.

They are ugly and wild with staring eyes, unkempt red hair and pot-bellies. They have clawed feet, fangs and porcine faces.

Petals white, broadly ovate, base cuneate to shortly clawed, margin apically erose.

Most of Antarctica is covered by ice and clawed by howling winds, a landscape as blank and hostile as the moon.

It uses its long clawed feet to grab the fish in the water surface and then feeds on the wing.

Petals 5, pink or white, obcordate, clawed, connate and bearded at base, apex fimbriate .

Petals free, blue, spatulate or orbicular, inner (anterior) 2 larger and clawed.

The prisoner clawed at the cell door in desperation.

Fascination and disgust clawed at one another in my confused mind.

Labellum white with reddish base and yellow middle, orbicular, ca. 1. 7 cm in diam. , concave, base shortly clawed, apex entire.

Petals 5, base clawed, upper part deeply concave, apex with long narrow appendage.

petals (4 or)5, clawed, auriculate or not, white, yellow, or pink.

Petals 4 or 5, rarely absent, usually smaller than sepals, concave or hooded, rarely nearly flat, often shortly clawed.

They too should have their past profits clawed back.

According to police reports, the sisters "bit, clawed, and kicked" the officers.

petals 3, yellow, less often white or blue, free, base clawed or sometimes connate, or forming a long tube.

Posterior 2 petals orbicular, anterior one obovate, all blue-purple or pale blue, ca. 8 mm, shortly clawed.

lodicules 3, abaxially light brown, adaxially transparent, base contracted, clawed.

lip suborbicular , 1. 7-2 cm in diam. , concave, fimbriate on the margin, densely papillose-pubescent on center, shortly clawed at base.

Petals white, lanceolate, 1. 5-3 mm, not crumpled, much shorter than floral tube, possibly sometimes missing, not or scarcely clawed.

The short- clawed otter is the smallest type of otter in the world.

Staminodes 3 or rarely absent, alternate with petals, often clawed, 2-cleft or 2-brachiate and branches with penicillate hairs.

At the same time, her six legs clawed, curled, blackened, and ceased, disappearing utterly.

They clawed their way back, but only to stalemate.

he clawed a hole in my shirt in his temper .

They clawed each other at the conference.

Petals pink in bud, becoming white, obovate, ca. 1. 5 cm, base shortly clawed, apex rounded.

The ACC has clawed back around 3 billion leones ($800, 000) in assets from those found guilty of corruption.

Petals 5, yellow or white, not clawed, entire, explanate or recurved.

His face was badly clawed.

Petals 5, base saccate to shortly clawed.

upper sepal galeate, ca. 2 cm high, clawed, ca. 1. 5 cm from base to beak, lower margin oblique upward, concave.

Petals 4, broadly obovate, clawed, abaxial surface of claw villous, adaxially with 1 reflexed cristate appendage.

Red clawed crabs are a kind of the grapsids.

Petals 5--10 or more, clawed, adaxially often nectariferous.

Gold and silver clawed back earlier losses with gold at 1160 and silver back towards 18. 50 area.

Petals 5, equal to each other or 2-lipped, clawed and usually with auriculate appendage.

Petals 5, much smaller than sepals, basally tubulose or shallowly scrotiform and shortly clawed.

The cats clawed at each other.

Petals (3-)5(-8), mostly free, clawed to sessile, contorted or imbricate.

Flowers actinomorphic; petals 5, basally long clawed, with 2 ear like scales at base adaxially.

Labellum obovate, ca. 1. 5 cm, base clawed, apex 2-cleft.

Funds clawed back some of the losses last year but have struggled to build on that recovery.

Studies on the Characteristic of Population Dynamics of the Clawed Jird

A preliminary study on the control effect of the sterilant on the population of clawed gerbil

Investigation Team collected in the South China tiger connecting the clawed

Tiger Running Spring Tiger-clawed Spring Tiger Dug Spring Tiger Spring

Balaur bondoc's double sickle-clawed foot: Credit: Mick Ellison

petals not clawed, without apiculus;

Sepals and petals 5, petals [usually] clawed, without apiculus;

clawed by the hawk's talons

Petals obovate or obovate-oblong, 1. 1-1. 5 cm, ciliolate and brown-glandular on upper half of margin, narrowly clawed at base;

lateral united petals not clawed, subovate, 9-17 mm, unequally 2-lobed;

Petals 5, lanceolate, ca. 2. 5 mm, abaxially villous at base or subglabrous, long clawed;

petals 4(or 5), greenish white, spatulate to clawed, ca. 1. 8 mm;

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