One expects a lot from Satan according to King, but, alas, the demon is pure wax: burning orange eyes, foul breath, clawlike hands and superhuman strength. |
Polaski stalks the stage with confidence, her clawlike hands in a constant state of threatening menace. |
Silently, but with the quickness of a tigress the old woman was upon her back, one clawlike paw grasping the wrist which held the dagger. |
Sue had a vision of a black and voluminous cloak spread upon the smouldering fire, of clawlike fingers scrabbling in the embers, a waxed and hideous face turned toward her. |
But in the process, he managed to mangle all of her clawlike false nails. |
For a long time he lay caressing the emaciated, clawlike thing that had once been the beautiful, shapely white hand of the young Baltimore belle. |