How To Use Clutches In A Sentence
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Larger species usually lay clutches of one to two eggs, where as smaller accipiters and harriers normally lay clutches of five to six eggs.
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In "Austerlitz," W.G. Sebald performs a small but significant miracle: he wrests the Holocaust out of the clutches of stale cliche.
Blending Fact With Fiction
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The office-bearers have also promised to sustain the movement till the country is freed from the clutches of corruption.
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With a quick pull, Baxorth released his scimitar from the ground's clutches and took a couple steps to his left, toward his agile adversary.
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No school and I was totally free from the clutches of evil Physics and Chemistry professors.
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The gearbox gets over both problems by being two half-gearboxes in one case, with two clutches and two transmission shafts, one inside the other.
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This entailed entering the proportion of clutches initiated in each month into the Shannon-Wiener diversity formula and then taking the antilog of the diversity value.
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An unidentified woman clutches a mouchoir while writing a sentimental family letter.
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Many other fish species build nests and fertilize large clutches of eggs externally.
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We collected clutches, incubated the eggs, and took blood samples from hatching young.
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While they aren't exactly capacious, the new breed of clutches are surprisingly roomy.
Times, Sunday Times
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The clutch of one mother failed to produce hatchlings, thus yielding a data set of 22 viable clutches.
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Fear gripped her in icy clutches despite the heat, and then, strangely, it ran down her skin in cold waves like snowmelt down a majestic mountain.
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Instead of bouquets, I had each of them carry matching clutches adorned with calla lilies and peacock feathers—they were elegant, unique, and completely unexpected.
My Fair Wedding
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Females deposited their eggs in clutches with the eggs arranged in rows, which meant that the order of fertilization by the different sires could be distinguished.
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In waders and shorebirds, which have large eggs for their body size, clutches are usually limited to a maximum of four eggs.
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Out with Barry Goater watching tiny flies struggling in the clutches of the science-fiction sundew plants on Dyke Heath, we also clocked two new birds to add to the ninety species already listed in the log: a pair of hobbies, the male perched on a stump, and a spotted flycatcher.
Wildwood
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It has been a failure of all us atheistical Darwinists intent on dragging the world, kicking and screaming, into the 1860s, and out of the clutches of the religion-be-deviled proudly ignorant dark-age-living creationists.
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Males in two species are known to guard egg clutches and carry hatchlings on their backs.
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Meanwhile, the continuing buzz among sports agents is that he would like to reclaim the organization from the clutches of the corporation.
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Bright blues have also hit the runways through flatform heels and clutches.
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All eggs hatched according to laying order, and in all clutches that we predicted to hatch synchronously, eggs hatched within 12 h of each other.
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She manages to prize herself away from the clutches of the circus to be reunited with her friends and family.
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One of the two clutches engages the odd-numbered and the other the even-numbered gears.
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There, deposited into her mother's clutches, Little Edie snubs him on the platform, failing to say goodbye as he stands there pleading as much as his granitelike propriety will allow.
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If you're adding rope clutches and a winch behind a dodger or splashboard, be sure to position them carefully.
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Males in two species are known to guard egg clutches and carry hatchlings on their backs.
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Thou'rt a greedy glead; -- I'se go ask Simon; but I'll warrant thou'lt be hankering after the reward, and the biggest share to thine own clutches.
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He yawns, tries to apologize, looks slightly surprised to find he can't, clutches his chest, begins to gasp.
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The older women are in essence sponging off the daughter, a secretary, who is marrying mainly to escape their clutches.
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In a famous General Motors ad, a man clutches a briefcase while galloping bareback on a horse across open desert.
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Larger species usually lay clutches of one to two eggs, where as smaller accipiters and harriers normally lay clutches of five to six eggs.
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The days of desperately trying to escape the clutches of some crashing bore in the corner of a nightclub are long gone.
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Unlike all the other men, he had no private books, no mezzotints of family grandees, no clutches of letters from admonitory father or teary mother or whispery girl back home.
Son of a Witch
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Weird hath offcast them to the clutches of Grendel.
Beowulf An Anglo-Saxon Epic Poem
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His final turn of the screw is the memory of a grizzled old miner who clutches his wrist as he and his pals are leaving the tunnel and boarding the bus to go home, and sez: ‘Sonny, we'll be here after you've gone.’
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While trying to flee the clutches of his uncle, Caspian is forced to use a magical horn that summons the kings and queens of old.
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The youth was trying to escape the clutches of two drunken female companions.
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This means that power to the engine is cut while the mechanism declutches and changes gear, causing a marked lurching sensation.
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However, we hope Sprint-Nextel is preserved from the RBOC clutches to remain one of the best counterbalances to their growing power.
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She clutches her scuffed leather suitcase, traipsing around cities in Europe.
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The Crimson Hand expressed the ineludible gripe, in which mortality clutches the highest and purest of earthly mould, degrading them into kindred with the lowest, and even with the very brutes, like whom their
Mosses from an Old Manse
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The crimson hand expressed the ineludible gripe in which mortality clutches the highest and purest of earthly mould, degrading them into kindred with the lowest, and even with the very brutes, like whom their visible frames return to dust.
The Short-story
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In the process, the notorious Captain's rapier fell from his clutches to catch a safe fall.
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Even though most males caught in her clutches never saw themselves as poor victims.
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If a jam occurs - even during start-up - the engine throttles down and declutches before damage is sustained.
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But they have fallen into the clutches of certain people not as desirable as the Yuppie overman.
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He clutches a bag of roasted peanuts in one hand.
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It's a meal that has escaped the clutches of chefs.
Times, Sunday Times
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She clutches the sides of her skirt until it bunches around her waist.
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The circular pattern is hand-embossed and quilted on totes and soft portfolio clutches in red, blue, pastel, black and white in patent leather, lacquered calfskin or a semi-opaque Nappa leather.
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Stojanovic escaped their clutches by jumping from a moving vehicle.
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When I extricated myself from her clutches and got back to my seat, she turned to the woman beside me and said, ‘He must really love you.’
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She is careful not to overstuff the bag, as heavy and bulky clutches can be difficult to manage.
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Rollo proffered his jackknife, but Conrad ignored him, finally freeing the woman from the clutches of the seine.
AMAGANSETT
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He says self-help groups have delivered people from the clutches of moneylenders who charge 120 per cent as interest.
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NA: Some of your clutches are designed with personal messages in Arabic calligraphy such as "Wisdom and Strength" and "Happiness Is a Journey.
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Having befriended the monstrous Lelio, she agrees to rescue him from the marital clutches of a middle-aged countess by wooing the lady herself.
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But how one clutches at the glimpses of peaceful scenes.
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It's a meal that has escaped the clutches of chefs.
Times, Sunday Times
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The gear sets and electric motors are separated by two electronic clutches.
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You are away from the clutches of your parents, but there is no need to bother thinking about getting a job, at least not a proper one.
Times, Sunday Times
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Her chest heaved, as the fear still possessed her mind in its clutches as well as the guilt.
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Seven females produced a replacement clutch soon after the eggs from their first clutches disappeared.
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The number of clutches of eggs, larvae in each instar, pupae, and new adults emerging in the next generation were recorded.
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The office-bearers have also promised to sustain the movement till the country is freed from the clutches of corruption.
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Laying patterns were cyclical and similar among years, showing a bimodal distribution of clutches each year.
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To be sure, it's no sort of a place for a squeamish person, aboard a loaded schooner whose mudhook clutches bottom while the sea flings her about, but the masters and crews of coal-luggers are not squeamish.
Blow The Man Down A Romance Of The Coast - 1916
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A bandy child, asquat on the doorstep with a paper shuttlecock, crawls sidling after her in spurts, clutches her skirt, scrambles up.
Ulysses
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It had also distanced itself -- as much as was possible -- from the present government foreign policy by alleging that it was not based on consensus and fervently pursued a 'swadeshi' economic policy that allegedly sought to keep India safe from the clutches of wily 'foreign' powers.
Asian Tribune
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Their increased religious activity is giving the impression the places librated from the clutches of the LTTE are now become Buddhist colony.
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Fear gripped her in icy clutches despite the heat, and then, strangely, it ran down her skin in cold waves like snowmelt down a majestic mountain.
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He had managed to escape the clutches of the police yet again.
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The frequency of multiple mating in the population was first calculated using all clutches.
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Lined in nappa leather and available in four colors, the bags have detachable mini clutches inside that are perfect for summer or fall evenings.
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For the type of work we do, that ratio saves on clutches and drivelines.
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Never has America been so thoroughly in the clutches of fawners, lap dogs, toadies, boot lickers, lick spittles, and Snopses.
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Exercise I have of late withdrawn my self: three Hours by the Clock he prays extemporary, which is, for National and Household Blessings: For the first -- 'tis to confound the Interest of the King, that the Lard wou'd deliver him, his Friends, Adherers and Allies, wheresoever scatter'd about the Face of the whole Earth, into the Clutches of the
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Swinging voters will see it as a sign that he has escaped from the clutches of the Chardonnay swilling elites.
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I continued my relentless walk through the streets, knife barred into my deep clutches.
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Humanity, gripped in the clutches of its devastating power, is smitten by the evidence of its resistless fury.
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As soon as he was safe from the sea's cold clutches, Arrigo covered his sister's limp form with his jacket, then collapsed beside her.
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During the three-month breeding season, a female can lay several hundred eggs in a number of separate clutches.
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It looks as it has been a good year so far for the wild duck as a few clutches of young Mallard have been noticed on the river.
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His face contorts in pain, and his right arm clutches his heart.
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She runs down the stairs, past her mother and across the garden to her father and 80 clutches his arms.
SEA MUSIC
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We left them in the clutches of the celebrated Turkish guide, "FAR-AWAY MOSES," who will seduce them into buying a ship-load of ottar of roses, splendid Turkish vestments, and all manner of curious things they can never have any use for.
It Never Changes
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Never has America been so thoroughly in the clutches of fawners, lap dogs, toadies, boot lickers, lick spittles, and Snopses.
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In species that forage inshore, clutches are usually larger but brood reduction may occur under adverse circumstances.
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His left hand clutches his belly, for really bad news does feel just like a kick in the belly at first.
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As the birds accumulated the toxins in their fat reserves, the shells in their clutches thinned and broke easily, or never hatched.
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As I entered that all-too-familiar room, the creator spiritus took possession of me, held me in its clutches and chastised me for eight weeks, until the work was all but finished.
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A slight touch on the shift lever and the system automatically declutches, changes gear and re-engages the clutch.
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David Cameron's early burst of touchy-feely decontamination distracted us from Conservative Europhobia; the likes of Ken Clarke and Michael Heseltine remind us that once it didn't have nearly as much purchase on the Tory soul, and it was Labour's ranks that feared the clutches of Brussels.
Europhobia's no swivel-eyed Tory monopoly | John Harris
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He was determined to rescue Lafcadio and keep him out of the clutches of the bughouse.
The Typewriter Is Holy
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She fell into the clutches of the rebel forces.
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Alas, Aries is so-so in talking their way out of the clutches of the Gestapo.
Astrology and Income Tax Evasion
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In recent years the school has been able to sponsor goats, rabbits and clutches of chickens for needy families in African countries.
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Some pairs raise two clutches in a single season.
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As soon as the flywheel starts spinning with requisite speed, the bendix drive declutches from the flywheel.
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But I didn't want to fall into the clutches of the local moneylenders.
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Clutches of 8-15 eggs are deposited in nests that the females dig, and the hatchlings emerge between a year and 16 months later.
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The Egyptian queen clutches the asp with a frightening tenacity, while the naked object of Zeus's golden shower grasps the coins from Olympus as one who fully understands the terms of the consummation being visited upon her.
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When found by the hounds, and the chase has begun, the hare will at times cross streams, bend and double and creep for shelter into clefts and crannied lurking-places; 154 since they have not only the hounds to dread, but eagles also; and, so long as they are yearlings, are apt to be carried off in the clutches of these birds, in the act of crossing some slope or bare hillside.
On Hunting
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Rollo proffered his jackknife, but Conrad ignored him, finally freeing the woman from the clutches of the seine.
AMAGANSETT
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He clutches his chest, staggers to the nearest building and slumps sitting to the sidewalk.
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I've been concerned that my medication has occasionally not been up to the job, and if it weren't for the unbridled joy of Lucy and Tessa, I'd begin to feel the familiar clutches of what Andrew Solomon called the noonday demon.
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Some have more efficient clutches, some have better bale-arm mechanisms; better finishes or smoother gears.
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Some two years ago it was my good fortune to rescue a little yellow-skinned princekin from the clutches of a very fine young tiger (my feet are on his hide at this present writing), who was carrying him off as a tit-bit for his supper.
The Argosy Vol. 51, No. 5, May, 1891
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I want to live to excess! cries Balzac's hero, Raphael de Valentin, as he clutches the magic shagreen, or ass's skin, that will prolong his life of dissipation and pleasure, according to the antiquary who gives it to him.
Decadent Writing Of the 19th Century
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Clutches of eggs from individual females were collected, and each clutch was split in half.
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While the attempt to free it from the clutches of underworld dons and whimsical financiers continues, more and more producers and directors are turning to banks and other credible public financing institutions for funds.
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Fortunately, she had never fallen into our clutches.
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That could explain why so many u-joints, clutches, transmissions, differentials and brakes were used up.
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Last year Matthew earned $506,273 in 27 starts, totted up seven top-ten finishes and, famously, made the putt that regained the Solheim Cup from American clutches.
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One chubby little pipe-mouthed fellow clutches a coke and fries; elsewhere a hamburger is being crucified.
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They were glad to have escaped the clutches of winter for another year.
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The females lay small clutches of large eggs.
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Born in St. Paul, Minnesota in 1929, he escaped the clutches of a military father and an unhinged alcoholic mother to try his luck first at acting, then puppeteering.
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Vehicle treatment alone does not stimulate hatching, as vehicle-treated eggs hatched before untreated eggs in only 3 of 10 clutches.
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It was not the Church's policy to execute the members of noble families retrieved from Jeopardy's clutches.
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The Torsen system is a unique approach to AWD in that it does not rely on electrical input, clutches or wheel slippage to operate.
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She sacrificed everything to keep the bottle from falling into Lord Carstairs ' clutches.
SANDS OF TIME
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He clutches her hand, but remains silent and dry-eyed.
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The evil church is experimenting on children, reducing them to spiritless robots called gobblers and it is up to the heroic gypsies, polar bears, witches and the star child to rescue them from the clutches of the church and their Russian speaking cossack guards.
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The demure grey-haired lady in the seat next to me clutches her glittering pink and gold programme to her chest.
Times, Sunday Times
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She moves out, leaving him in the clutches of the two strangers.
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Listing the clutches he has taken of various host birds with greater honeyguide eggs in them, he says, “I am not a modest collector, as you know, I am a vast collector!”
A Year on the Wing
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A female caged with an impotent male produced clutches at roughly one month intervals.
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Not only did swallow colony size almost halve with the disappearance of cattle, but birds that remained on these ‘cattle-free farms’ laid smaller clutches and were less likely to lay a second time.
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And as he reeled unseeing, smashing his great groping clutches through the air at me, I was in and short-dirked him thrice in belly, thigh, and buttock, than which I could reach no higher up the mighty frame of him.
Chapter 17
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The cold clutches of reality gripped her stomach with a death hold as she realized… It was all real.
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Beside her in the passenger's seat, Beth clutches her hands together so hard that the fingers are white and bloodless.
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You are away from the clutches of your parents, but there is no need to bother thinking about getting a job, at least not a proper one.
Times, Sunday Times
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And to force them away from evil clutches would mean fighting the Darkness face to face.
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Products on display included automotive rubber parts like oil seals, o-rings and gaskets, clutches and brakes and acid resisting bricks and mortars.
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I was successful in liberating a total of 16 chocolate eggs from your clutches, notwithstanding additional emergency supplies in the form of mini eggs, buttons and cake.
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Not surprisingly, offspring from clutches with no malformed young survived significantly better than offspring from clutches in which young were malformed.
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The youth was trying to escape the clutches of two drunken female companions.
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Some heart attacks have the classic symptoms you see on television or in the movies - where someone clutches their chest and writhes in excruciating pain.
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But how one clutches at the glimpses of peaceful scenes.
TOLKIEN AND THE GREAT WAR: The Threshold of Middle-earth
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Two electronically controlled clutches deliver torque to the front wheels individually.
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And as he reeled unseeing, smashing his great groping clutches through the air at me, I was in and short-dirked him thrice in belly, thigh and buttock, than which I could reach no higher up the mighty frame of him.
The Jacket (Star-Rover)
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They would indulge together in orgies and exterminate whoever fell into their clutches '.
Arms and the Woman: Just Warriors and Greek Feminist Identity
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In rheas, very small and very large clutches are more likely to be abandoned during incubation compared to intermediate-sized clutches.
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His left hand clutches his belly, for really bad news does feel just like a kick in the belly at first.
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‘We just save you from the clutches of the she-devil,’ Nate said angrily, ‘and this is how you thank us?’
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The youth was trying to escape the clutches of two drunken female companions.
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But as L. J. Davis, reviewing the DSM in Harper's, once wrote: "It may very well be that the frotteurist is a helpless victim in the clutches of his obsession, but it's equally possible that he's simply a bored creep looking for a cheap thrill.
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She manages to prize herself away from the clutches of the circus to be reunited with her friends and family.
The Sun
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A drunken, bleary Jerry Lee Lewis, still clad in gold lamé, clutches a bottle as he staggers down a Memphis street.
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I have to admit that I don’t know what kind of flycatcher they are although they’ve raised many clutches either on the shutter or in a nest a foot away from the back door.
Marlowe day!
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A demon child is rescued during infancy from the evil clutches of the Nazis.
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She fell into the clutches of the rebel forces.
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Their brakes fade, clutches burn and chassis flex; they dig in, roll around and break traction at absurdly low speeds, but with great drama.
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Miniature traffic lights on the overhead gantry turn from red to green and drivers simply drop their clutches and bury their accelerator pedals.
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Well-documented cooperative species with joint-paternity clutches include the acorn woodpecker, pukeko, Tasmanian hen, dunnock, Galapagos hawk, trumpeter, and stepmother breeding units of the scrubwren.
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Davis posted seven the nine and five from frees, showing more than a noticeable lack of positiveness by his colleagues who were happy to find his reliable clutches rather than shoulder responsibility.
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Cutting, trimming, finishing, pressing: it was taxing work, though not for the bosses who upped and relocated their operations to other sites nearby in order to escape the clutches of the VAT man.
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Almost 10,000 clutches of chicks were purchased for families in Central America.
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ÂFemales with high levels of corticosterone produced clutches of eggs that were extremely male-biased.
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The Chorus of Furies insists that no one can save him from their clutches, because the crime of matricide is an unforgivable sin no matter what, adding that they want to drain away all of his blood and take his life.
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But how one clutches at the glimpses of peaceful scenes.
TOLKIEN AND THE GREAT WAR: The Threshold of Middle-earth
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Our spiral retaining rings are used for clutches, transmissions and many other automotive components.
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He seeks the best and wisest expert to repair them, dragging him away from the clutches of the evil rock and roll empire.
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She manages to prize herself away from the clutches of the circus to be reunited with her friends and family.
The Sun
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He seemed a black lump looming over the desk like a vulture on a high tor, waiting for his prey to walk into his clutches.
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She clutches the sides of her skirt until it bunches around her waist.
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As that old couple traveled to various national parks, they must have had a great time telling the bizarre story of thirty-three men who appeared out of the mist one morning to lift their truck from the clutches of the sea, only to disappear moments later back into the mist.
Manifesting Michelangelo
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He met it with a long looping header which went way beyond the desperate clutches of his opponent and into the far corner of the net.
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Computerized servos shift the helical gears and operate the wet clutches.
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At least he's moved on and escaped the clutches of the mother-in-law from hell.
The Sun
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If you're self-employed keeping your hard-earned money from the taxman's clutches is a priority.
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And as he reeled unseeing, smashing his great groping clutches through the air at me, I was in and short-dirked him thrice in belly, thigh and buttock, than which
Chapter 17
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It's ploddy, 4/4 guitar driven indie that clutches on the coat tails of just about every band that came out of England in the 90's.
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And on the odd occasion Redfearn escaped the clutches of Bauress, Steve Hollis was on hand to look after the ex-Premiership star.
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It has a welded tubular steel frame; hardened steel gears and clutches for traction, and the wing and rear mowers.
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Smokers are not creatures of habit, smokers are people caught in the clutches of addiction.
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Steven LevyThe Big One Not Over YetIn "Austerlitz," W.G. Sebald performs a small but significant miracle: he wrests the Holocaust out of the clutches of stereotypes.
Periscope
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Our Constitution, consecrated by the callous consuetude of sixty years, and grasped in triumphant argument by the left hand of him whose right hand clutches the clotted slave-whip.
The Complete Poetical Works of James Russell Lowell
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Charlie also is trying to escape the clutches of the villainous Rafi, who has masterminded the evil plot.
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He attributed increased mortality to inefficient incubation of enlarged clutches, which resulted in more dead embryos.
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I want to live to excess! cries Balzac's hero, Raphael de Valentin, as he clutches the magic shagreen, or ass's skin, that will prolong his life of dissipation and pleasure, according to the antiquary who gives it to him.
Decadent Writing Of the 19th Century
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Electronic solenoids actuate the clutch elements and these are close coupled to the clutches to optimize response time.
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It's a meal that has escaped the clutches of chefs.
Times, Sunday Times
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Liam has big plans to rescue Jean from the clutches of the two bullying men in her life by spiriting her away to the drug-free zone of the countryside.
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Her quest leads her into the clutches of others who are eager to use her to satisfy their own sexual peccadillos.
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In these pages the grim reality of life as an Allied POW in the dying clutches of Nazi Germany is laid bare.
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While Ms. Gonzalez tends to leave flashier clutches with metallic or jeweled detailing for evening, she sometimes likes pieces with glazed exotic skins, as the slight sheen adds panache.
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Can they escape the clutches of the next century's power mad phone company?
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She shows me weekend bags, handbags and clutches, beach towels and sandals and ballerina flats.
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You are away from the clutches of your parents, but there is no need to bother thinking about getting a job, at least not a proper one.
Times, Sunday Times
