He saw the basket lying on the ground, and the angry owl clawing at it.
His clawing hands clutched something solid and substantial, an upright bar of metal.
Better take old Buff; he'll bring you home when you get lost, and keep puss from clawing you.
These hideous creatures took off their rags, as if they intended to bathe, and then, clawing open the grassy graves with their long skinny fingers, pulled out the bones and threw them about!