Clawhammer

But he also crushed any doubts about his chops with "Clawhammer Melody," a mash-up of standards on which he showed off the unusual style of clawhammering, or frailing.

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The softest of treads and suddenly the bloated shape of Gottfried Clawhammer glided from the gloomlike a conga eel from behind a nigger-head.

Black Butterfly Mark Gatiss 2008

Clawhammer held out his free hand and the sleeve of the kimono gaped like the sickle-mouth of the Hammerhead.

Black Butterfly Mark Gatiss 2008

Looking forward to dear old rain-swept England and getting away, far away, from the sweaty horror that had been the search for Gottfried Clawhammer.

Black Butterfly Mark Gatiss 2008

Clawhammer had emptied the pistol but had discarded it on the Aquarium floor.

Black Butterfly Mark Gatiss 2008

And I have to get after Clawhammer and that damned Leibach.

Black Butterfly Mark Gatiss 2008

From the freezing saltmines of Petrograd to the nightclubs of Macao and finally to a confrontation with Clawhammer himself: twenty stones of pallid flesh, the shaved head like a bullet, the eyes obscenely liquid just like those of the deep-sea creatures that twisted and writhed in this very Aquarium.

Black Butterfly Mark Gatiss 2008

Clawhammer stooped to pick it up, opened the chamber and let the ammunition clatter to the floor.

Black Butterfly Mark Gatiss 2008

Clawhammer 'bout James Dean, an 'he t'ink som' wan git los 'mak' de yell.

Connie Morgan in the Fur Country 1921

Clawhammer com ''long an' he say he ain 'fin' no track.

Connie Morgan in the Fur Country 1921