"Clutches" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... the lines on Jack's belt showed who he was, the giant lifted him up and laid him gently upon his shoulder, to carry him to his castle; but, as he passed through the thicket, the rustling of the leaves waked Jack; and he was sadly afraid when he found himself in the clutches of Blunderbore. Yet this was nothing to his fright soon after; for, when they reached the castle, he beheld the floor covered all over with the skulls and bones of men and women. The giant took him into a large ...
— The Fairy Book - The Best Popular Stories Selected and Rendered Anew • Dinah Maria Mulock (AKA Miss Mulock)
... shock of the sensations and ideas that crowded upon him. Everything clashed in his brain with tragic violence: certainty, joy, dismay, despair, fury. He was struggling in the clutches of the most hideous nightmare; and he already seemed to see a detective's heavy hand descending ...
— The Teeth of the Tiger • Maurice Leblanc
... is given over to such a woman?" says the dowager: "As for that double-faced traitor, my Lord Marlborough, he has betrayed every man and every woman with whom he has had to deal, except his horrid wife, who makes him tremble. 'Tis all over with the country when it has got into the clutches of such wretches ...
— Henry Esmond; The English Humourists; The Four Georges • William Makepeace Thackeray
... about him," cried the Dodo, impatiently; "he's all right as Panjandrums go, I suppose, but I don't want to get into his clutches again, I ...
— Dick, Marjorie and Fidge - A Search for the Wonderful Dodo • G. E. Farrow
... won't you let me be your friend? You make a scoundrel of me, borrowing money from another man to get out of my clutches." ...
— Song of the Lark • Willa Cather
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