Strike he did too, and away flew the ball out of Blackall's very clutches.

We had snatched her from the very clutches of Du-seen, who halted, mystified and raging.

It has the feel of a joyful recovery of life from the very clutches of oblivion.

I hurled myself across the dyke, and escaping out of the very clutches of my foes threw myself into the stream.