My pesky packrat memory had turned up the right tab and now was pawing away at the shelves in the back of my mind where I keep the useless junk that I don't think about for years on end and am helpless to get rid of.

The consequence is that the reindeer feed is buried not only under a metre or more of snow, which the reindeer can cope with, pawing away at it to reach the lichen that is reindeer moss, but under many inches of solid ice.

Nothing moved save a sparkle of sun on the riffles, but it was plain that the cows had been there; the mud of the bank was cut and churned with drying hoofprints, and in one place, the dying plants had been pawed away in a long, messy trough where something large had wallowed.

Eager hands pawed the wool away, revealing an eight-inch-long ingot of gold, the metal shaved away at one end, and stamped in the center with the royal French fleur-de-lis.

Logan tried not to think of oily fingers pawing away at the schoolgirl.

It twisted ever so slightly, keeping one eye on the two warriors, while turning the other on the halfling pawing at the rubble not twenty feet away.

And in the 72nd minute Distillery keeper Collins pawed the ball away on the goal-line as Gardiner raced in for the kill.

Pawing away at the crack, his claw caught on a piece of cloth.

The lion seemed to be keeping an eye on them while he pawed away at the ball.