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claw
Using her hands like windshield wipers, she tried to flick snow away from her mouth. When she clawed at her chest and neck, the crumbs maddeningly slid back onto her face. She grew claustrophobic.— (John Branch, « Snow Fall: The Avalanche at Tunnel Creek », dans New York Times)
I cannot hide what I am: I must be sad when I have cause, and smile at no man's jests; eat when I have stomach, and wait for no man's leisure; sleep when I am drowsy, and tend on no man's business; laugh when I am merry, and claw no man in his humour.— (William Shakespeare, Mr. William Shakespears Comedies, Histories, & Tragédies […] : Much Adoe about Nothing, Isaac Iaggard, Londres (1re édition 1623) (OCLC 606515358))
To be ſhort, a wretched and curſed generation they be; hypocrites, pretending friendſhip, but they can not skill of plaine dealing and franke ſpeech. Rich men they claw, ſooth up and flatter: the poore they contemne and despiſe.— (Plutarch, traduit par Philemon Holland, The Philisophie, Commonlie Called, The Morals […] : Of the Novritvre and Edvcation of Children, Arnold Hatfield, Londres, 1603 (OCLC 1051546006), page 15)
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