talon [ˈtælən], slanted [ˈslɑ:ntɪd], forward [ˈfɔ:wəd]

Conan was fighting like a wild beast himself, in silence except for his gasps of effort. The black talons of the monster and the awful grasp of those misshapen hands ripped and tore at him, the grinning jaws gaped for his throat. Then Murilo, seeing an opening, sprang and swung the chair with all his power, and with force enough to have brained a human being. The chair glanced from Thak's slanted black skull; but the stunned monster momentarily relaxed his rending grasp, and in that instant Conan, gasping and streaming blood, plunged forward and sank his poniard to the hilt in the ape-man's heart.

With a convulsive shudder, the beast-man started from the floor (судорожно содрогнувшись, зверочеловек вскочил с пола; to start — начинать; вскакивать), then sank limply back (потом безвольно = мешком осел назад). His fierce eyes set and glazed (его свирепые глаза застыли и потускнели; to set — ставить; застывать; становиться неподвижным /о лице, взгляде и т. п./; to glaze — застеклять; /о глазах/ тускнеть, стекленеть), his thick limbs quivered and became rigid (его толстые конечности дернулись и стали неподвижными = замерли; to quiver — дрожать мелкой дрожью; трястись; подрагивать; rigid — жесткий; неподвижный).

Conan staggered dizzily up, shaking the sweat and blood out of his eyes (Конан поднялся, шатаясь от головокружения, и стряхнул = смахнул пот и кровь из глаз = заливавшие ему глаза; to stagger — шататься, покачиваться; идти шатаясь;dizzily — головокружительно). Blood dripped from his poniard and fingers (кровь стекала с его кинжала и пальцев), and trickled in rivulets down his thighs, arms, and breast (и сочилась ручейками по бедрам, рукам и груди). Murilo caught at him to support him (Мурило схватил его, чтобы поддержать /его/; to catch at — схватить, уцепиться), but the barbarian shook him off impatiently (но варвар нетерпеливо стряхнул его; to shake off — стряхнуть).

quiver [ˈkwɪvə], rigid [ˈrɪʤɪd], thigh [Ɵaɪ]

With a convulsive shudder, the beast-man started from the floor, then sank limply back. His fierce eyes set and glazed, his thick limbs quivered and became rigid.