Clutches

Examples

• Dejah Thoris in the clutches of the First Born! Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
• Safety clutches are numerous, by which the machine is quickly and automatically stopped by the action of electro-magnets should a workman or other obstruction be caught in the machinery. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• Be the First Born gods or mortals, they are a powerful race, and we are as fast in their clutches as though we were already dead. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
• An arm of the main conflagration had shot out a half mile south of its parent to embrace this tiny strip of road in its implacable clutches. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
• Once out of her clutches and she cannot harm you. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
• Behind us we left the stricken city in the fierce and brutal clutches of some forty thousand green warriors of the lesser hordes. Edgar Rice Burroughs. A Princess of Mars.
• Clutches (called striking boxes) on the axle of the front gear wheel allowed either running wheel to move independently of the other in turning. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
• The giant rolls were belt-driven, in opposite directions, through friction clutches, although the belt was not depended upon for the actual crushing. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• The thought that the divine Dejah Thoris might fall into the clutches of such an abysmal atavism started the cold sweat upon me. Edgar Rice Burroughs. A Princess of Mars.
• God keep you out of the clutches of such a man as he. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
• Issus, you see, has not struck me dead, nor is she rescuing her faithful Xodar from the clutches of the unbeliever who defamed her fair beauty. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
• Or possibly it might belong to a friendly people, and have wandered by accident almost within the clutches of the pirates and the therns. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
• We stopped there by the way, and there was no getting my wife out of their clutches. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
• The kindly, charitable, good old governor--how could he have fallen into the clutches of such a ruffian! Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
• Improved clutches, gear ratios which permit varying speeds, double-braking systems and electric lights are present-day refinements which add zest to the sport of motorcycling. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.

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