Pawing
in example sentence
The mare was frightened and lifted her foot directly Meaulnes tried to touch it,
pawing
the ground with her heavy clumsy hoof.
More example sentences with word pawing
A video of the experiments included in the Netflix documentary “Dirty Money” shows a monkey in a state of panic,
pawing
at the window of the chamber in a desperate effort to escape.
She stopped to let pass a black horse,
pawing
the ground between the shafts of a tilbury, driven by a gentleman in sable furs.
There was an instant of gleaming breastplates, waving swords, tossing manes, fierce red nostrils opening and shutting, and hoofs
pawing
the air before us; and then down came the line of muskets, and our bullets smacked up against their armour like the clatter of a hailstorm upon a window.
With a last howl of agony and a vicious snap in the air, it rolled upon its back, four feet
pawing
furiously, and then fell limp upon its side.
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