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Usage examples of urchin.

Still doubtful, Alec pulled the smallest urchin gingerly from the bowl by one of its spines.

He bagged some urchins and sea cucumbers, but the crabs were elusive, and when he swam along the edge of the bay with his knife unsheathed to pry off the purple scallops, fierce currents threatened to drag him against the rocks.

Lindsay returned the compliment, taking in a hennaed urchin cut over straight brows and eyes the same muddy colour as the supermarket coffee.

Some rural urchins who had ambled back were inoculated and ready to prowl for zombies.

She had been leaving a plumassier in Oxford Street, having purchased a number of feathers to adorn a new bonnet, when a scruffy urchin ran past, snatching at her reticule.

It was almost a year since he had first seen her, surrounded by bemused merchants and urchins in the Sabzi Market, looking terrified.

He feels anemones and urchins and realizes with sudden sadness that this is the first time he has swum close enough to the seabed to sense its life, and it is almost certainly the last, and it is too dark to see.

It was just such lack of attention to detail which leads to downfall and, Ikey told himself, if a mistake of the same magnitude of neglect had occurred with one of his urchins, the young tooler would have been most severely punished.

And as the coughing urchin groans, and claps his hand to his mouth, distained is the snowball that drops unlaunched at his feet.

My little urchins on the rafts will drift away tonight, and Witchy will be with them.

Lexi loved the sea urchins that lurked like dark black blobs in the sea, and she never seemed to tire of watching the mullet and bream and wrasse swimming lazily by beneath their dangling feet.

Kat said between clenched teeth to the wrigglesome urchin next to her.

At each crossroads and turn, Lirenda was balked by piled-up snow, street stalls swarming with commerce and stopped carts, and racing urchins playing a northcountry game with flat sticks and a stitched leather ball.

It was an experiment of the Scientists to interfere with Scutari gastrulation, coaxing the blastulas that they had somehow acquired to develop more like sea urchins or Darghinni or even human beings.

The soldiers would not hesitate to round up the entire group, meting out whatever justice a band of Touched urchins could expect on a misty morning when a prince had just been murdered.