His arms reached out, the hands like claws, and clutched her.

He hurled her to the floor, clutched his left arm.

The woman's arms went out and clutched the master around the neck - a hostile act!

Her arms clutched him more strongly and he knew that she had not yet come to the difficult part for her.

Beside him sat Maudeen, her arms clutching their two young sons.

She reached down again, arm at full stretch and her other hand clutching Joe, and got hold of something else.

I was lying, doubled up, on my right side, both arms clutching at my middle.

But with one arm clutching my sister and the other hanging on to the stair railing, she could not.

A few minutes later he reappeared, arms clutching an angular bundle.

It ended with a little girl's face, eyes tightly closed and thin arms clutching her weeping father's neck.