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Examples
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Ever scratch yer kitty on the tummy and have him get all clawful and toothy at you?
Don't Tug On Superman's Cape Steve Perry 2010
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She grabbed for a clawful of something brown and moist'then, like a child suddenly remembering its manners, she shyly offered him some of it-her food, presumably.
The Black Gryphon Lackey, Mercedes 1994
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Then he jumped so suddenly that the owl dropped a whole clawful of the soft white feathers with which she was finishing the neck.
Stories of Birds Lenore Elizabeth Mulets
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The blue Dragon leaped up, and took such a clawful of hair out of the boy's head, that it seemed as if part of the skin went, too.
The Junior Classics — Volume 6 Old-Fashioned Tales William Patten 1902
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Even with talon-tipped claws he is slippery and more than a clawful; so the old hawk took a short cut home across the railroad-track and the corner of the woods where stands the eagle tree.
Roof and Meadow Dallas Lore Sharp 1899
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The blue Dragon leaped up, and took such a clawful of hair out of the boy's head, that it seemed as if part of the skin went, too.
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Susan is nabbed by the military, renamed Ginormica and locked away in a secret government compound, where-in a nod to '50s B movies-she meets and befriends a clawful of mutated misfits.
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And if Dr. Rreszsesrr—the ancient scientist who had probably been reduced to a clawful of ashes by the Sazssgrerrn “mishap”—was to be believed, those eggs had represented the entirety of his own caste’s hopes for the future.
Star Trek: Typhon Pact: Seize the Fire Michael A. Martin 2010
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And if Dr. Rreszsesrr—the ancient scientist who had probably been reduced to a clawful of ashes by the Sazssgrerrn “mishap”—was to be believed, those eggs had represented the entirety of his own caste’s hopes for the future.
Star Trek: Typhon Pact: Seize the Fire Michael A. Martin 2010
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And if Dr. Rreszsesrr—the ancient scientist who had probably been reduced to a clawful of ashes by the Sazssgrerrn “mishap”—was to be believed, those eggs had represented the entirety of his own caste’s hopes for the future.
Star Trek: Typhon Pact: Seize the Fire Michael A. Martin 2010
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