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The tide no longer throws up the whiskered seal, with its curled ears and sharp jaws, dragging itself along on its nailless paws.
From The Man Who Laughs by Victor Hugo
Here they meant to take ship, but they desisted, perhaps because they feared to trust themselves to the flimsy nailless vessels in which the Arabs braved the dangers of the Indian Ocean.
From Medieval People by Eileen Edna Power
The fourth is represented only by the metacarpal, and one nailless phalange, the first and fifth only by rudimentary metacarpals.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 8, Slice 10 "Echinoderma" to "Edward" by Various
I will never forget those torn, nailless fingers.
From The Trail of '98 A Northland Romance by Robert W. (Robert William) Service
From that character we can safely infer high boots of thick, rigid leather, so that we can diagnose high boots, massive and stiff, with nailless soles, and many sizes too large for the wearer.
From John Thorndyke's Cases related by Christopher Jervis and edited by R. Austin Freeman by R. Austin (Richard Austin) Freeman
