Pieces of manioc root tied fast to large bowlders sunk in the river are the only bait;--the crawfish will flock to eat it upon any dark night, and then they are caught with scoop-nets and dropped into covered baskets.
I have seen crawfish by actual measurement fifty centimetres long, but these were not considered remarkable.
At first sight one not familiar with the crawfish of these regions can hardly believe he is not viewing some variety of gigantic lobster instead of the common fresh-water crawfish of the east coast.
Under stones in the lower basins crawfish of the most extraordinary size are taken; some will measure thirty-six inches from claw to tail.
We did not succeed in catching anything, but Mrs. Lavarello gave us her catch of three crawfish and two small fish.
Bob was catching crawfishwith a line without any hook, just a piece of meat tied on at the end with a stone to weight it.
At daybreak he would feed near the banks, plunging down deep into the mud and ooze at the bottom, searching among the snake-like lily roots and water weeds for fresh clams, crawfish and in the shallows for shoals of little silvery minnows.
Then after you've shown us a lot ofcrawfish and we've caught them we'll have breakfast.
Every one of these coral keys is built on crawfishand Snake Creek here is full of 'em.
If you'd let me keep the cook I hired we'd have crawfish for breakfast," said Captain Hull.
Ned got overboard and began to haul out crawfish at the rate of two a minute.
There was a great ragged hole at one end, where wind and rain, and perhaps also the burrowing ofcrawfish and of worms, had loosened the bricks, and caused them to slide out of place.
He then took up the little supplicant crawfish and her infant sister and cast them into the stream.
An old crawfish came out warily from the water, and crawled around and over his apparently deceased enemy.
The crawfish would no longer venture near the shore, and the racoon was on the point of starvation.
He approached La Ramee and showing him the crawfishhung up by the thread: "Cardinal," he said.
La Ramee knelt down and made a hole in the floor; meanwhile the duke hung the crawfish up by a thread.
He was going to throw the crawfish out also, when Grimaud snatched it from his hands.
The right man should be able to clean up quite a pile before Saturday Night got after him, and when that happened he could live up to his title and do the crawfish act.
On careful examination I found that the oil-bearing water was coming out of a crawfish hole!
Every farmer knows what a crawfish is, and what a hole it will bore, and what could be more likely than that a crawfish should strike oil?
During the dry spell last year a crawfish kept going down and down and down--you know they always go down until they reach water--until at last he struck oil, and the oil gushed to the surface.
In this uncertainty, and with certain feverish restlessness that is always engendered in anticipation of a battle, the 21st Corps lay about Crawfish Springs and Lee & Gordon's mills.
As late as 1727 men were presented for drunkenness, for being absent one month from church, for swearing, for selling crawfish and posting accounts on Sunday.
For this was crawfish season in Sweden andcrawfish decorated tables everywhere.
If you would rather draw crawfish and bootjacks than men and women, draw crawfish and bootjacks.
The entire atmosphere of the place this morning smacks of the crawfish and his allies.
The session begins with a brief off-hand discussion of the general characteristics and affinities of the group of arthropoda, of which the crawfish is a member.
He has learned to look on the crawfish as a link in a living chain--a creature with physiological, psychological, ontological affinities that give it a human interest not hitherto suspected by the novitiate.
When they had spoken thus theCrawfish laughed, and said: "Fools that you are!
The Crawfish saw from a distance a great pile of bones on the Rock.
When the wicked Crane heard this, she thought to herself, "I am tired of eating fish, so to-day I will take this crawfish for a change!
The Crawfish then bit off the neck of the Crane, and quietly returned to the Pool.
So she allowed the Crawfish to mount on her back, and began the journey to the Rock of sacrifice.
When the Crawfish heard this she repeated to the other inhabitants the words of the Crane; and all the Fishes, the Tortoises, and other Water-people felt their hearts quake with fear and anguish.
When theCrawfish heard this she said: "Friend, what is the reason for this renunciation of all appetite?
Then I took the road again; but by this time I had relinquished all thought of walking to Crawfish Springs, and so did nothing but idle along.
This little animal is thecrawfish (Astacus Mississippiensis) of the western states, and bores its way both vertically and laterally into the levees.
There they remain until hatched; but the young crawfish does not experience the metamorphosis peculiar to most decapods.
The Mississippi crawfish is about four inches in length, and has all the appearance of a lobster; its breeding habits being also similar.
This species of crawfish builds a habitation nearly a foot in height on the surface of the ground, to which it retreats, at times, during high water.
In her fright she flung the crawfish out on the bank.
He told me that his mother, while washing clothes at a stream, turned over a flat rock and a crawfish caught her by the thumb with one of its big claws.
The male crawfish picks up the fertilized eggs with his feelers, that are arranged in a double row underneath his tail, and, by means of these feelers, he carries the eggs close to his body until they are nearly ready to hatch.
Ordered to relieve General Hazen, who held position on the road to Crawfish Springs; but as he had received no orders, and as mine were but verbal, he declined to move, and I therefore continued my march and bivouacked at the springs.
One cavalryman came to each company, secured their canteens, went to Crawfish Springs, over a mile away, and returned them to us filled with much-needed water.
Whether the shrimps orcrawfish gray, Or crafty mermaids stole them away, Nobody knew; and nobody knows How the Pobble was robbed of his twice five toes!
So the crawfish and the parrot Sauntered slowly toward the sea, While the bluebird stole the carrot And returned the glue to me.
Next morning, Marjorie carried off one of this pair by the name of Jim to look for crawfish and shiners in the creek.
I am sure, Mr. Lamb, that it would afford Mr. Bigglethorpe and Marjorie additional satisfaction, to know that their wading aftercrawfish brought up memories of your barefooted youth.
Mr. Bigglethorpe provided rods and lines, and baited the hooks for the ladies, with grasshoppers, frogs, crawfish and minnows.
But it sorter coppers my appetite, an' Crawfish saves on sheep-meat an' sow-belly by his discourse powerful.
This yere Crawfish Jim was a pecooliar person; plumb locoed, like all sheep-men.
It's at this crisis Crawfish Jim starts in to make himse'f a general fav'ritc.
Of course, I'm a heap interested in this yere snake knowledge, an' tells Crawfish so.
This time, however, Crawfish pints up for Wolfville.
Why, we digs a grave out back of the dance-hall an' plants Crawfish an' his pets tharin.
New gun that a-way, an' Crawfish not up on his practice; of course he overshoots.
I reckons we better bury them reptiles, too,' says Doc Peets, as we gets Crawfish stretched out all comfortable in the bottom.
But I'm yere to remark I never runs up on a gent who goes plumb mad with sadness ontil I seesCrawfish that day Jack Moore immolates his bull-snake pets.
As I was sayin', along comes pore old Crawfish over to Wolfville; rides in on a burro.
Crawfish don't pack no gun, or I allers allowed we'd had notice of him some, while them bullsnakes is cashin' in.
Therefore Crawfish was sent down to bring up a little earth.
But someone else reached there first, and when Opossum reached there the crawfish were all gone.
The crawfish soon began to show their red noses, and, when done, we set to work on them.
The old lady looked at us with astonishment as we seized a saucepan, put in the crawfish with a little salt, filled it up with water, and set it on the fire; they had always thought them only fit for bait.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "crawfish" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: clam; crab; limpet; lobster; oyster; prawn; scallop; shellfish; shrimp; snail; steamer; whelk
