What is "crabs"

Usage examples of "crabs".

But there were blindfish and crabs and other animals that lived aboveground.

But the bay and the inlet, with the fish and the crabs, and the ebbing and flowing tides, were there, very much the same, before Hendrik Hudson and his brave Dutchmen knew any thing whatever about that corner of the world.

The side-boards of the old punt were under water half the time, but the crabs were pretty well penned in.

And, so saying, Dick tumbled over in, with a spatter which made Ford Foster tread on two of three crabs in getting away from it.

These were nothing like the crabs that inhabited the coast or some rivers.

Myrrima glanced down to see a pair of small green kelp crabs scuttling for shelter under the rocks.

The pocket crabs had dug so many holes in the walls that one could hardly follow the lines, and the pigment itself seemed to have faded.

With all of the pocket crabs around, the walls of the tube would be pitted and scarred at least, and might even have caved in.

As Iome had guessed, the walls were pitted with burrows from pocket crabs, but the tunnel seemed passable.

Blood had crusted on the stumps of his arms and legs, and now the crabs tore into him with relish.

Yet we keep on fighting, like a pair of crabs squabbling over a worthless rock.

Every low tide advertises oysters gratis, and occasionally crabs and crayfish for the picking up.

Halting on the verge of the water, it furtively picks up crabs as if it were a trespasser, conscious of a shameful or wicked deed and fearful of detection.

Those who know only the great flat, ruddy crabs with ponderous pincers and pugnacious mien, which frequent fish shop windows, can form but a very unflattering opinion of the fancy varieties which people every mile of the Barrier Reef.

But the truthful historian of the capabilities of crabs, the duty of one who stands sponsor to some of the species and who has the hardihood to indite some of the manifestations of their intelligence, wit, and craft, must discard the prejudices of his race, abandon all flattering sense of superiority, forbear the smiles of patronage, and contemplate them from the standpoint of fellowship and sympathy.