Read full poem →Vivie received humbly the strictest injunctions to engage in no more
disabling work for the present, to keep out of police clutches and
the risk of going to prison or of attracting too much police
Dictionary Entry
The claw of a predatory animal or bird.
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Common Phrases
. clutchesclutches friction
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Poetry examples for “clutches”
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Read full poem →Beneath his cool pomegranate-trees,
Clutches his sword in fierce surmise
When on the mountain-side he sees
Read full poem →Beneath his cool pomegranate-trees,
Clutches his sword in fierce surmise
When on the mountain-side he sees
Read full poem →aimlessly until some emotion grips him when the
knuckles harden and he clutches at his knees or at the
edge of the table. And all the while he will be breathing
Read full poem →Ge. CALY.
Friction Clutches )
Whitman, A. E., N. Y. Representative of Swasey, Raymon