devil's claws

The marks and scratches on the stone were caused by the devil's claws.

Might the memory not haunt them until at last they despair of his grace and fall into the Devil's claws?

These implements are familiarly known as "devil's claws."

Protection: The Devil's claws are long but it uses them to climb trees, dig holes, and drag its food.

"Bush, if anything, follows the pattern of many Christian moralizers by overstating how bad he was, and how close to the Devil's claws.

No fairy fingers can have pressed the gold, but devil's claws have left their mouldings there since yesterday," murmured Starbuck to himself, leaning against the bulwarks. "

There were four of them crammed into a six-by-six refuge, squeezed between winches, brackets, chain hoists, devil's claws, bumpers, fenders, double-fluked antiroll hooks, all equipment for maneuvering large cargo in space.

These areas are prone to condensation and hence to rust which swells, expands and breaks the stone. The statue of St Michael is made of spun copper 1 mm thick, marked by corrosion and hits from firearm projectiles, and has cast bronze features (sword, cross, hands, devil's claws).