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Bald eagle talons can measure as long as two inches.talons = sharp hooked claws
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Bird talons are similar to a dog's nails.
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A lump forms in my throat and I want the talons off. (source)
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It struck the surface with its talons and rose back into the sky, carrying a large struggling fish. (source)
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A bird-creature swung in low, huge wings flapping, talons extended. (source)
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It checked itself at the last minute, only its talons breaking the surface of the waves, just for an instant. (source)
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Even with my makeshift armguard, her sharp talons dug into my skin. (source)talons = sharp hooked claws
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This is the hour of pride and power, Talon and tush and claw. (source)Talon = sharp hooked claw
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He raised up the taloned paw and pointed at me.† (source)
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Blood to the tearing, the talon'd, the beaked one.† (source)
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Snarling like a wild animal, she grabbed a football-playing sheep, lifted it, and in one practiced motion slashed its throat with her abnormally strong, talonlike fingernails, burying her face in the animal's bleeding throat.† (source)
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with a son of invincible spurious humility slept on a pallet on the floor, the child lying there between them unasleep in some hiatus of passive and hopeless despair aware of this, aware of the woman on the bed whose every look and action toward him, whose every touch of the capable hands seemed at the moment of touching his body to lose all warmth and become imbued with cold implacable antipathy, and the woman on the pallet upon whom he had already come to look as might some delicate talonless and fangless wild beast crouched in its cage in some hopeless and desperate similitude of ferocity (and your grandfather said, 'Suffer little children to come unto Me': and what did He mean by that?† (source)talonless = without sharp hooked clawsstandard suffix: The suffix "-less" in talonless means without and reverses the meaning of talon. This is the same pattern you see in words like harmless, fearless, and powerless.
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It would slash at him with beak and talons when he came near: For weeks his wrists and hands were always bleeding. (source)talons = sharp hooked claws
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She struck the room, tall and straight and sudden-white, a talon of lightning in the midnight sky.† (source)talon = sharp hooked claw
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The one dark red leg that they could see ended in a webbed foot and three powerful, taloned toes.† (source)
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"Ye of our bridge!" he cried, "keen-talon'd fiends!† (source)
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