Away with it lustily, Sailors; It was some pawn that he has got unjustly; Down with it low enough, and let Crabsbreed in't.
Only the cracking shell of certain crabs and the dolorous moaning near the surface of certain fishes, called snorers, alter this silence.
And, so saying, Dick tumbled over in, with a spatter which made Ford Foster tread on two or three crabs in getting away from it.
Dick was disconsolate for a while, but his humility took the form of a determination to go for crabs that day, mainly because his mother had long since set her face against that tribe of animals.
Yes, and the crabs would get their feet wet and so would Dick; but he resigned himself to his circumstances and pushed away.
The side boards of the old punt were under water half the time, but the crabs were pretty well penned in.
We'll turn the clams out of the basket and fill that; but we mustn't put any crabs in the fish-car.
Nice clothes, nice boats, a good many other nice things, were as yet beyond the reach of Dick Lee, but he was quite likely to catch as many crabs as his more aristocratic neighbors.
Yes, crabs and young girls," he answered with a frown.
Upon the endless web of interarching roots great purple crabs were crawling up and down.
In some of the crabs the foot-stalk for the eye remains, though the eye is gone; the stand for the telescope is there, though the telescope with its glasses has been lost.
Besides the fishes there were crabs of several varieties, all brilliant in color; one called the hermit crab had a covering like velvet, with as delicate a pattern as ever came from the loom.
In Ceylon there are crabs with legs like pieces of coral and a color closely resembling the sand upon which they crawl, but the leaf insect surpasses them all.
Lieutenant-Colonel Roosevelt told me that nothing interfered so much at first with his sleep in the field as the noise made by these crabs in the bushes.
All of these crabs are scavengers by profession and night-prowlers by habit, and they do not emerge from their lurking-places in the jungle and make their appearance on the trails until the sun gets low in the west.
While he was looking at these crabs feeding on the turtle, Mr. Kummer went on towards the south, and visited the burying-places of the blacks.
Two men scrambled like huge crabs over the slippery rocks, and relieved Captain Joe of the end of the safety-line.
The derrick-crabs have pulled the tops of the staves off her.
Demi and his aunt ran to the rescue, and found Teddy dancing excitedly in a chair, while two little crabs were scuttling about the floor, having got through the wires of the cage.
Dan, forgetting his foot, and laughing to see the crabs go sidling and backing over the bed.
When the young wife took a dish of crabs from the basket, she apologised to Albert, because she had not been able to buy a single female crab in the whole market.
Wading among the seaweed-covered rocks they had lively times, occasionally getting their toes or fingers nipped, for crabs object to being caught.
Their crabs are very sweet to eat, yet their claws are so strong that they will break the iron of a pickax; and there are small hairycrabs in the sea which are rank poison, as whoever eats of them immediately dies.
It served as both nest and nourishment for myriads of crustaceans and mollusks, for crabs and cuttlefish.
Crabs produce their legs, worms produce their heads and tails.
He bided his time for vengeance, and used his sword on crabs and flatfish and fat groupers.
Sometimes we climbed up a solid road, blasted out of the face of the black cliffs, or crept along the shore of the tranquil lagoon, frightening the land-crabs into their holes as they felt the shake of the approaching carriage.
In a very little while the crabs were restored to their native element, the seaweed was thrown over the dock, the chair and table wiped clean and dry, and everything was again in order.
If catching crabs makes you so brilliant, you'd better catch some more," said Cricket serenely.
Now, then, Cricket, you owe me a lot on those crabs that I furnished you this morning.
Every low tide advertises oysters gratis, and occasionally crabs and crayfish for the picking up.
The pomp of the world he would find personated by coral polyps; its vanities by coy and painted fish; its artfulness represented by crabs that think and plan; its scavenging performed by aureoled worms.
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.
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.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "crabs" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
