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  • Here, ancient and primitive mammals are represented by the unusual long-clawed mole-vole (Prometheomys schaposchnikowi), and representatives of the genera Mesocricetus, Sicista, and Apodemus.

    Biological diversity in the Caucasus 2008

  • The jailer, as we went out, kept holding out his long-clawed, lean, brown hand, muttering about his promised kum-sha, very fearful lest the other turnkeys, who were still lying on their beds smoking opium, should come in for any share of it.

    The Golden Chersonese and the way thither Isabella Lucy 2004

  • The marks cut deeply by the hooves of the duocorn were half blotted out in places by another spoor -- three long-clawed toes, with faint scuffed spaces between, as if they were united by a webbed membrane.

    The Stars Are Ours Norton, Andre 1954

  • The marks cut deeply by the hooves of the duocorn were half blotted out in places by another spoor -- three long-clawed toes, with faint scuffed spaces between, as if they were united by a webbed membrane.

    The Stars Are Ours Norton, Andre 1954

  • The marks cut deeply by the hooves of the duocorn were half blotted out in places by another spoor — three long-clawed toes, with faint scuffed spaces between, as if they were united by a webbed membrane.

    Star Flight Norton, Andre 1954

  • Tom also caught a perch, and clinging to it as he drew in his line was a large, hard-shelled, long-clawed crab.

    Stories of California Ella M. Sexton

  • Its particular significance lay in the fact that as it shattered down, sliding a distance on the steep hillside, it scraped the snow from the mouth of a winter lair of a scarcely less venerable forest inhabitant, -- a savage, long-clawed, gray-furred grizzly bear.

    The Snowshoe Trail Edison Marshall 1930

  • Then there were thorns, you must know, and abundant long-clawed creepers that grasped the legs and kept them fixed till they were tenderly extricated by the hand.

    A Tramp's Sketches Stephen Graham 1929

  • Then as two lions, long-clawed, deep-mouthed, snarling, with rigid mane, with red-eyed glare, with flashing, sharp-white fangs, they prowled lithely about each other seeking for an opening.

    Irish Fairy Tales James Stephens 1916

  • With a rushing charge Shag was upon the fighters -- only just in time, for Muskwa had A'tim in his long-clawed grasp, and in another instant would have crushed his Dog ribs.

    The Outcasts William Alexander Fraser 1896

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