It is many years since I lost the loveliest infant ever seen, while my poor Stephen was left to be the mockery of every urchin in the street!
How do the Starfish and Sea-urchin keep themselves clean?
If the Urchinis on a rock he clings tightly with these sucker-feet; then, if he wishes to move away, you will see the long thin tubes stretch out and bend about.
Besides these spines and suckers, the Sea-urchin owns another set of tools.
The Starfish, we found, had a terrible mouth, but that of the Urchin is worse still.
The Sea-urchin can walk by moving its spines, tilting its body along from one place to another on the bed of the sea.
There is a great deal more to know about Five-fingers; and the Sea-urchin still has his secrets which no one can explain.
Again the horseman shouted, and this time the cabin door opened cautiously and a dirty-faced urchin thrust forth a tousled head.
Catching the oldest urchin by the arm, the woman gave him a vigorous cuff on the side of the head and then whispered a few words in his attentive ear.
I'll show you the urchin I couldn't get," said Edna.
First from the office, then from the Tide Mill, later from your house propelled by Miss Lacey, and ultimately from that rock, to discover by what magic there was some big urchin that Miss Derwent couldn't get.
In fact, the urchin had begun dragging itself in a stately and scarcely perceptible progress across the rock toward its native pool.
Driesch[40] found almost invariably to follow the double fertilization of the sea-urchin egg.
But the urchinremaining silent, the elder boy's indignation began immediately to settle down.
The urchin obeyed, pillowed his head on Clare's chest, and went fast asleep.
The urchin painter may assert himself in the presence of Velasquez, providing he keeps within the limits of his own originality.
An urchin may dispute with a Plato, if the urchin sticks to the things he knows.
The crowd at length began to disperse; the windows were left, except now and then an urchin of a boy showed his ragged head at the grille.
Just a simple little picture, yet its charm is o'er me still, And again my boyish spirit seems to glow, And once more a barefoot urchin am I wandering at will Down that little country road I used to know.
Late that afternoon, after Barbara had sent the last little urchin homeward, she stood at a window looking out over the fields at the autumn foliage of the woods beyond.
She caught the eye of the tattered urchin clinging to the pillar, and radiantly smiled on him.
Forty thousand persons were gathered in the Square of St. Mark and in front of the Palace, and I recall a pretty incident in which the gracious Queen and a little street urchin figured.
Suppose that the valve of the Crania upon which a coralline has fixed itself in the way just described, is so attached to the sea-urchin that no part of it is more than an inch above the face upon which the sea-urchin rests.
In this case, we see clearly that the sea-urchin first lived from youth to age, then died and lost its spines, which were carried away.
Lo, and behold, there was David Dodd crossing the very nearest field and coming toward her, anurchin in each hand.
The sound of the knives and forks had woke the urchin out of a deep sleep.
The Mendelian Law in connection with past achievements in plant breeding, and the experiments of Loeb in crossing the sea urchin and the star fish are profoundly suggestive.
Petra and he got into conversation, while the boy and a little urchin continued to heap up the old shoes.
He began at the lowest form with the name of a small urchin sitting near John.
I shall leave Master Lubin to measure his own; a lazy young urchin like him would not move a finger if he could help it; I would not give one of my minutes for his chance of winning the crown of Success!
The urchin in the enemy's tree was not the most unfortunate of the nestlings.
The fact is that he did disappear in the nest, where he remained for two or three hours, for it is probably safe to assume that the urchin who came up later was the same.
He had some difficulty in recognizing Detective Caldew as the village urchin of a score of years before who had touched his cap to the moat-house butler as a great personage, second only in importance to Sir Philip Heredith himself.
He saw in him only the village urchin of a score of years ago, whose mischievous pranks on the Heredith estate had been a constant source of worry to him.
The veriest urchin steers her, with a little fat hand on the heavy tiller twelve feet long, and a hunch of good rye-bread in his other fist.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "urchin" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
