We strip down to our briefs, clutch the trunk of the tree with both arms and shimmy up.
Another time, motionless with a compound bow high up in a deer stand in the pre-dawn gray near Auburn, N.Y., I stopped thinking about the cold when a great horned owl alighted in the tree beside me, clutching a warm and freshly snatched gray squirrel, and proceeded to eat it, shred by shred.
A clutch can automatically shut down the motor, and an alarm sounds if the tree's revolutions are obstructed.
Elsie climbs the tree, clutching a flashlight, and finds the snake with "two tiny claws sticking out of its mouth.
Of course, many bird species eat insects, and if they're not careful, the birds can become stuck in the tree's clutches while trying to snag a free lunch.
Clutch the TV remote, point and click.
The tree gasps and clutches itself, shakes and sweats with fever (the typical symptoms of malaria) and shrivels to the ground.
Now the tree rises while she, right before it, clutches the ballet's tiny protagonist to her heart.
Tucked among the trees, off to the left, is a clutch of women dressed in blue.
The man in a striped shirt stood on the roof of his car, clutching a tree branch as the water rushed at his feet.
I looked down into the trees around the house and saw the guards, clutching their rifles and standing alert by their posts.
