| 单词 | crab |
| 例句 | Mom promised to take everybody out for stone crabs to celebrate when the big day arrived. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z The men would go fishing and crabbing at the wharf and catch huge turtles and take them home and make soup and stew out of them. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z They’d have moro crabs and caramel pudding and a vat full of whiskey for Felicia. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z He shook his head, the picture of patient disbelief, and I forgot I was pretending not to care about crabs and devoted my full attention to the pesky varmints. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Riptide, being magic, would appear in my pocket sooner or later, but for now it was stuck somewhere under the wreckage of the crab, and I had no time to retrieve it. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z He inched himself on his bottom, like a shy crab, toward the tip-top of the slope, to the highest spot, where he sat, washed in sunlight, surveying the kingdom that was Snowberger’s. Each Little Bird That Sings 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z We stand in Grace’s driveway, beside her dark pink crab apple tree. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z When the urge for crabs comes upon them, the troop will head for a mangrove swamp to have a feeding bout. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z “Like mammals, reptiles, birds, amphibians? Okay? Then that didn’t work. It was too confusing with the squid and the horseshoe crab.” Landscape with Invisible Hand 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z The famous blue crab of the Chesapeake Bay and other Atlantic Coast areas is an example. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z Seventh-grade Ron had a birthmark shaped like a crab, which made me think of the Crab Nebula. Schooled 2000-02-29T00:00:00Z Instead, I cleared a space in the center of my room and practiced the crab pose for so long the carpet began to burn my palms. A Very Large Expanse of Sea 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z All Pong would think about was how terrifying it would be to be down at the bottom of the dark river, waiting to get pinched by the claws of scratchy-backed crabs. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z Various forms of seafood are packed into ice: mussels, their shells as smooth and dark as river rocks; whole crabs, their pincers lifted to the sky; silver salmon, their brilliant scales gleaming under the lights. I Can Make This Promise 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z I lifted one crab this way, only to find one of its legs had been clamped onto by another crab. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z Not only do the local crabs die, but others moving into a sprayed area from the sea succumb to the lingering poison. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z There were crabs in every pool up the shore. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z A crab scuttles out from under a rock. Al Capone Does My Shirts 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z Startled, she reached out and grabbed for the crab. Orphan Island 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z Every spring a waterman starts out with brand clean crab pots. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z I got my father and two other men from their crab houses, and we raced back to Auntie Braxton’s. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z "Gold," he repeated, scrambling backward like a crab, "more gold than you'll see here in a lifetime. Enough to buy land, women, horses . . . you could be a lord. Lord Mord." A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z “He says the crab is a his. What a freak!” Shouting at the Rain 2019-05-07T00:00:00Z Fishes and crabs were killed in enormous numbers. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z Above from the crab apple tree the frayed end of the rope swung gently. Bridge to Terabithia 1997-10-21T00:00:00Z In the brief tug-of-war, my crab lost a limb. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z Between the cracks in the rocks, I could see the claws of wedged-in crabs, spitting bubbles, sometimes moving slightly like they wanted to keep an eye on us, like they were spying on us. Winger 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z Oysters are not the mysterious creatures that blue crabs are. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z But by the time he saw me dumping the crabs, there were only two bushels left. Red Kayak 2004-09-23T00:00:00Z There were crabs under every patch of floating seaweed. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z The slightest miscue by any one of them would mean catching a crab, and catastrophe. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z She read the pages about the sea urchin, the horseshoe crab, and the moon snail. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z The diners in the packed restaurant had their heads bowed over their plates, spooning curried crab into their mouths or slurping fat, jiggly oysters out of their shells. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z He had the same coloring as the crab on his plate: reddish hair, pale cream skin, and large dots of orange freckles. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z She returned, without the crab, but with more bowls of soy sauce, ginger, and scallions. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z I see her dangling from the crab apple tree, the skipping rope noosed around her neck. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z I could not envision Dad and Kenny out there fishing perch instead of hauling crabs. Red Kayak 2004-09-23T00:00:00Z We ate crabs and burgers and fries and drove the city streets. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z Only the crabs didn’t have an unpalatably bitter or salty taste. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z At the tail end of the crab season Call came home. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z I skirted along the grassy bank, watching the water bubble between the stalks of grass, a sure sign that the fiddler crabs were scrabbling around just out of sight. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z Waverly and Rich lit cigarettes and put a crab shell between them for an ashtray. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z He meant to refuse meat but his past diet of fruit and nuts, with an odd crab or fish, gave him too little resistance. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z After he had caught and salted his crab bait, he did a little fishing to pass the days and even some house repairs. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Even before the battle of Danno-ura, fishermen may have been reluctant to eat such a crab. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z The crabs had arrived from Eastwatch only this morning, packed in a barrel of snow, and they were succulent. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z In the case of the Heike crab it was effected more or less unconsciously by the fishermen, and certainly without any serious contemplation by the crabs. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Just then, I get pinched and drop the crab, which makes another run for it. Shouting at the Rain 2019-05-07T00:00:00Z I scrabbled to my hands and knees—and “scrabbled” is the right word, like a great crab. This Side of Wild 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z My concern for Dad and that crab protest. Red Kayak 2004-09-23T00:00:00Z Big clams, prawns, crab, all kinds of fish, salty and freshwater, the best—otherwise why would so many foreigners come to this port? The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z When they hit the water, they fan out, forming a pincer like a crab's. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z I would come in from a day of progging for crab, sweating and filthy. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z My father and I broke out laughing until the crab let go and plopped back into the water. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z The fiddler crab is not the only creature of tidal marsh and estuary to be threatened by pesticides; others of more obvious importance to man are endangered. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z —Well, we couldn’t find any crabs, so we decided to go wadin’ in this little pool of water that had collected near some rocks on the beach. Tears of a Tiger 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Bits of crab flew from the Lord Commander's mouth as he began to gasp and choke. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z He climbed out well below the crab apple and came running back to where they sat. Bridge to Terabithia 1997-10-21T00:00:00Z But what if Otis should say something to my father about all the crabs he was buying from us? Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Captain Billy’s son Otis ran the crab shipping part of his father’s business, while his father and two brothers ran the ferry. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z We stepped into our rubber overalls, pulled on our rubber gloves, and started winching in crab pots, dumping out crabs, and refilling the bait holders with clams. Red Kayak 2004-09-23T00:00:00Z Trapped in the cold mesh-metal baskets, the crabs formed a furious, writhing column of desperation. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z Their collars clacked together like crab claws, and they let out this awful squeal as they ran. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z When the chicken reaches the railing, I have four crabs left. Shouting at the Rain 2019-05-07T00:00:00Z I tried to remain inconspicuous in the newsroom, but one of the typesetters, a crabbed, chain-smoking woman who always wore a hairnet, took a dislike to me. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z “It’s okay. That was better than eating crab cakes any day,” I say, thinking about how much Papa Joseph would have liked him. Shouting at the Rain 2019-05-07T00:00:00Z My eye could travel down the planking of any one of them and find at the end a shack erected by a waterman for storage and crab packing. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z He remembered waking once on such a night to the clatter of crabs in the pan where he’d left steakbones from the night before. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z I glanced at the fountain, then at the marble floor, already slick from scuttling crab tracks. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z Orr sniggered lewdly, his bulging crab apple cheeks blowing outward with pleasure. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z Collectors tried to amass and describe as many of God’s species as possible and hoped to find new crabs, moths, finches, or ferns. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z Then he reaches out to take the crab from me. Shouting at the Rain 2019-05-07T00:00:00Z We used to have the crab boil on the first Friday of every month. Watch Us Rise 2019-02-12T00:00:00Z As she picked apart a pile of crabs for soup, Jinny looked up at him, stirring wild onions into a pot over the fire. Orphan Island 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z I can’t swear that I fooled the crabs, but our catches were good that summer. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z I go to the kitchen, get the crab crackers and extra napkins. Watch Us Rise 2019-02-12T00:00:00Z As they bowed low, it was easy to imagine them as transformed crabs. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z That left two on the platter: a large crab with a faded orange color, and number eleven, which had the torn-off leg. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z Another plane was crabbing in as low as it could safely fly, two broad searchlight beams stretching and leaping toward the ground before and behind it. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z If I got pinned down in the center of the ship, I was crab chow. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z The captains and commanders aigued over the maps like fishwives over a bucket of crabs. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z My mother heard the report of D day on our ancient radio and walked up to the crab house to tell me. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z The Captain was tending crab lines on his broken-down dock. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z One comfort was that the fishmongers van bringing the first course of dressed crab had broken down. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z They had enough extra fish and crabs that even their hogs were well fed. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z “They crew on a crab boat. No phone.” Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z Here you have a million crabs living in a million crevices. Seedfolks 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z Many of the girls in Troop 11 were from working-class, even poor, families— children of domestic servants, crab pickers, laborers—whose parents spent most of their waking hours trying to make ends meet. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z “Got twelve keepers and a bucket of crab,” I tell him. The Young Man and the Sea 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z Of course Mrs. Weidenbach knew we were right behind her, crabbing her act with an older settler than her daddy. A Long Way from Chicago 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z “I’m goin’ up the river to catch some shrimps and crabs. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z The handle which lifted the latch of the door, a piece of wrought iron shaped like a horse-shoe, was moving softly to the left It moved like a crab, uncertainly. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z Abbott crabbed along beside him until Ben whirled with a reverse dribble, sprinted for the basket, and laid up the first two points of the game. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z “Just once. A blue crab bit her on the big toe, and that’s all she wrote.” Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z A spider crab was embroidered there, white on a grey-green field. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z The snails moved among the bodies of the dead fishes and the moribund crabs, devouring the victims of the death rain of poison. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z Ordinarily we’d pick crabs on a picnic table inside the little screened-in porch we have on the back of the house. Red Kayak 2004-09-23T00:00:00Z He had worn his good ones when he left earlier to see about his own boat and the crab shanty. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Then Orr found two horse chestnuts somewhere and slipped those in until Yossarian detected them and snapped at him again to take the crab apples out of his mouth. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z With Phelan, we moved him to the door of his cell, but there progress ceased, for Massey grabbed the bars and held on like a crab. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Conkers for bullets, crab apples and windfallen pears for heavy artillery. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z “Only you pick that crab. Nobody else take it. I already know this. Everybody else want best quality. You thinking different.” The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z There are crabs to be found here with curious markings on their backs, patterns and indentations that disturbingly resemble the face of a samurai. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z I liked the smell of the sea and the mystery of crabs scrambling onto the shore. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z But no matter how many crabs she caught, no matter how many plomms she pitted, the sky each morning was hazy and bleary. Orphan Island 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z JING-MEI WOO Best Quality Five months ago, after a crab dinner celebrating Chinese New Year, my mother gave me my “life’s importance,” a jade pendant on a gold chain. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z “Great, Toomer. I’ll come here Friday after school and just go on to your place with you,” Ben said, leaving for home, the ends of his fingers abraded from the crab shells. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z Their grandmother had packed a bag of fruit and some cold crab, left over from yesterday’s lunch. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z Six months after he had buried the hen, Aureliano Segundo woke up at midnight with an attack of coughing and the feeling that he was being strangled within by the claws of a crab. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z For a few days I was desolate, but then I decided that if you can’t catch crabs where you are, you move your pots. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z The little boy crossed his legs at the knees, leaned back, and minced forward twice plus twice more, exactly like a crab that could count. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z Ben turned toward Pinkie who was crabbing out to challenge him. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z One part of it was reserved for the fishermen who brought crabs and oysters and bass and flounders. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z And I sat in the bow of our landed skiff and watched as plovers and pipers stenciled the sand with their quick feet, in search of bugs and baby crabs. Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z Only I was not thinking of saving the blue crab now. Red Kayak 2004-09-23T00:00:00Z And it was weird at first, especially since the inside of the fried crab looked like scrambled eggs. As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z “When I was a kid,” Orr replied, ‘T used to walk around all day with crab apples in my cheeks. One in each cheek.” Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z “Remember when your father caught that big crab in a bucket?” We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z Lizzie knelt and packed it with seaweed, sending little crabs scuttling from underneath each handful she dragged up. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z If a crab grabbed on, I lifted it out and into a plastic sack. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z "You make it ten times worse by crabbing about it." The Great Gatsby 1925-04-10T00:00:00Z In places Jon had to put his back to the cold stone and shuffle along sideways like a crab, inch by inch. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z Lord Wyman had brought twenty casks of fish from White Harbor packed in salt and seaweed; whitefish and winkles, crabs and mussels, clams, herring, cod, salmon, lobster and lampreys. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z It looked like a small crab jumping in the violet water. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z As they laughed, he sucked the meat from a crab leg and reached for another. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z The storm blew itself out, the surge waters receded, and there, sticking halfway above the surface, was the lost crab boat. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z I drank clam juice and ate the sharp crab cocktails at stands along the waterfront. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z My parents objected, but I assured them that when the crab season was over, I would go and catch up with the class. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Can’t get nothing for small crab, nobody wants it, too hard to pick the meat out, but I don’t care. The Young Man and the Sea 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z And she was just about to get another ding when a crab scuttled out from under a piece of driftwood. The Wild Robot 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z Hermit crabs like frantic children scamper on the bottom sand. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z At the mile-and-a-half mark, someone in the middle of the Syracuse boat caught a crab. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z From November to March, he was tonging for oysters, and from late April into the fall, he was crabbing. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z The smaller boy yells, “And who hits someone for just picking up a horseshoe crab?” Shouting at the Rain 2019-05-07T00:00:00Z I was the only one who noticed her prying open the shell, sniffing the crab’s body and then getting up to go to the kitchen, plate in hand. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z Been a bumper crop of crabs these past couple weeks, but it’s only because the crabs are on the move now, before winter sets in. Red Kayak 2004-09-23T00:00:00Z When caught, these crabs are not eaten, but are returned to the sea in commemoration of the doleful events at Danno-ura. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Once when I came back from trying to catch crabs with a fish head on a string, our motel door was locked. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z If she prodded or acted too interested or fake in any way at all, Amaya would slip back into her shell like those little hermit crabs she’d read about and probably never come back out. Dactyl Hill Squad 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z “Huh. It would be cool to just shed something and swim away,” he says, crawling on all fours and then picking up the crab. Shouting at the Rain 2019-05-07T00:00:00Z But my mother had counted only ten, because to her way of thinking Shoshana was just a child and didn’t count, at least not as far as crabs were concerned. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z It was still twisted around the branch of the crab apple tree. Bridge to Terabithia 1997-10-21T00:00:00Z Why didn’t I try to stop them from tormenting those crabs? My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z “I’m about to set everything on the table. Honey, can you get the crab crackers?” she says to Dad on her way back to the kitchen. Watch Us Rise 2019-02-12T00:00:00Z “Then you don’t have crabs. If you had them, you’d tell the world.” I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z “We’re coming in from crabbing early these hot mornings,” he blabbed. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z “I’ll be needing this money if my lazy cousin keeps coming up with no crabs!” A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z The gray oysters with ruffles like skirts on the shells, the barnacle- crusted oysters with little bits of weed clinging to the skirts and small crabs climbing over them. The Pearl 1947-01-01T00:00:00Z And sometimes poisoning may be in direct, as in the marshes near Indian River, where scavenger crabs attacked the dying fishes, but soon themselves succumbed to the poison. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z The next day, after a thin lunch of crabs and sorrel salad, Jinny shared the platter of candies. Orphan Island 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z Dad wrapped the line around the bar of the machine that pulls in the crab pots and started moving it slowly. Red Kayak 2004-09-23T00:00:00Z The monkey has a way to deal with the crab’s claws. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z They descend from the trees and take up positions in the water beside crab holes. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z She stacked the crabs in a multileveled steamer that sat over two burners on the stove, put a lid on top, and lit the burners. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z I figured Carl was going to give me grief about not crabbing this summer and all those pots going to waste settin’ there by the shed. Red Kayak 2004-09-23T00:00:00Z It had taken the boys a while to learn how to shake the crabs out of the pots into the basket. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z The boy gasped for air, clutching onto the rope of the crab basket. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z The crabs are running from all directions and climbing onto my chicken leg. Shouting at the Rain 2019-05-07T00:00:00Z Again fishes and crabs were the principal victims. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z Still, I wasn’t going to count too heavily on crabs. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z He had seen a fisherman in ’49 who had been eaten about the face by crabs and crayfish. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z Call and I had been so busy crabbing since school let out that we’d hardly been to visit the Captain together. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z “Yeah,” I say, and crack open another crab leg. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z They ate the crabs from a big plate in the middle of the table. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z Dad’s still crabbing, but only every other day. Red Kayak 2004-09-23T00:00:00Z The fishermen say the Heike samurai wander the bottoms of the Inland Sea still—in the form of crabs. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z When he pulled it away, he grinned, and I knew the crab’s curiosity had made its wobbly eyes peer out. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z His face had turned so red, he looked like a crab that had been boiled so long, its claws were about to crack. The Epic Fail of Arturo Zamora 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z Shiny as a new crab pot, all set to capture the world. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z We gather mussels, oysters, and crabs and bring them to the cook. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z Pinmei gave a small shriek of surprise, but the sound was lost as the guards yelped and clattered, waving their arms like crabs about to be dropped in a pot. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z They circled him, old names and new ones dropping like crab apples. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z Four crew members, armed with crab nets, climbed to the roof of the warehouse. Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z Some older men were fishing off the end of the pier I went down, and a heavyset woman was lowering crab baskets over the side. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z Unfortunately, the average hermit crab isn’t particularly athletic, having to haul a clunky seashell around on its back, so the sports competition part of Abbey’s project sort of fizzled. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z “Why did you walk around with crab apples in your cheeks?” Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z LeAlan: But it’s like crabs in a crab barrel—you got one crab trying to get out, and the others pull him down. Our America: Life and Death on the South Side of Chicago 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z She found sea glass and a fossilized crab leg embedded in a concretion. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z For the next hour, Ben sat with Toomer in the alley helping Toomer clean crabs when no customers were in sight. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z Fiddler crabs scuttled here and there, excavating mud to create burrows before the tide came in. Tiger Boy 2015-10-01T00:00:00Z It’s got fresh water from the river, rabbits, squirrels, birds, mussels, oysters, fish, crabs, strawberries, and mulberries. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z The entire aquatic crab population was apparently destroyed and the fiddler crabs, all but annihilated, survived temporarily only in patches of marsh evidently missed by the pellets. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z And then he lifts the crab and holds it about six inches in front of his face. Shouting at the Rain 2019-05-07T00:00:00Z Small fiddler crabs scurried around me, too fearful to get close but curious enough to linger nearby. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z I knew he had mixed feelings about the new crab regulations because of what he said the other night when he got that message from Tink Bosley. Red Kayak 2004-09-23T00:00:00Z In place of gruel and stale bread and rotten meat, the usual dungeon fare, his keepers brought him fresh-caught fish, bread still warm from the oven, spiced mutton, turnips, carrots, even crabs. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z But even though he could force his body to follow after, his mind hung back, wanting to cling to the crab apple tree the way Joyce Ann might cling to Momma’s skirt. Bridge to Terabithia 1997-10-21T00:00:00Z We picked crab apples and wild blackberries and pawpaws during the summer and fall, and we swiped ears of corn from Old Man Wilson’s farm. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z There were still crabs moving in the Bay and peeling in the floats. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z And then she pointed her crab leg toward her future son- in-law, Rich, and said, “See how this one doesn’t know how to eat Chinese food.” The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z Gull Island had fiddler crabs and piping plovers. Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z With his wide stance and his grippy feet, the crab could crawl up and down any rock face. The Wild Robot 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z We sold our soft crabs, peelers, and the terrapin to Otis, then split the money and the hard crabs. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z It was treacherously easy to catch nothing but air between waves or to dig too deeply into a wave and catch a crab. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z The first pot they’d just opened, and the crabs had fled sideways in a turbulence of muddy water. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z The woman didn’t answer, but instead lifted up the basket and poured the teeming mass of crabs into the water. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z I had watched with growing dread, as the water heated up and the pot began to clatter with this crab trying to tap his way out of his own hot soup. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z Inside, I found a cream-colored envelope—thick paper, crisp and very formal—but the handwriting was crabbed and childish as a fifth-grader’s, in pencil. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z He walked like a crab, side to side, and probably if he had wanted to be a ballet dancer, he would have been doomed to a miserable life of endless frustration. The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z Baltimore is home of the B&O Railroad and the best crab cakes anywhere. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z I poled my skiff from float to float, fishing out the soft crabs and taking them to the crab house to pack them in boxes filled with eelgrass for shipping. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Most traps have at least a crab or two, but it happens. The Young Man and the Sea 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z Then he looks the bubbling crab in the eyes and says, “I dub you with the name Darwin. And now you owe me one, Darwin.” Shouting at the Rain 2019-05-07T00:00:00Z Dicey felt like following her—she could imagine how those crabs felt, and she had had that feeling herself at times—but she wasn’t going to back down before those eyes. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z We swam near a long, curved section of wall to watch a family of giant crabs picking among five pillars. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z Their grandmother picked crab meat and chewed and listened. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z “No, they just take some blood and let the animals go. But I’d like to work on figuring out how to make man-made crab blood so we can leave them alone completely.” Shouting at the Rain 2019-05-07T00:00:00Z Perhaps it was not a crab, but a spider, and Paris was the spider’s web, each road a strand of silk leading back to the great stone beast at its center. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z There was an old crab apple tree there, just at the bank of the creek bed, from which someone long forgotten had hung a rope. Bridge to Terabithia 1997-10-21T00:00:00Z He was worn out from crabbing all day. Red Kayak 2004-09-23T00:00:00Z Alba had no trouble obtaining the key to her mother’s pantry, arguing that there was no need to hoard ordinary flour and poor men’s beans when you could buy Baltic crab and Swiss chocolate. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z The crabs flexed their legs in midair between sink and stove. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z Folks would go down to the whaif and throw out nets for crabs and turtles and haul in human bodies. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z If there was more money in it, he’d be out there, too, fishing oysters and crabs year-round. Red Kayak 2004-09-23T00:00:00Z Like, a whole crab with legs and pincher claws, all fried up, wedged between two pieces of white bread. As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z “Except crabs are bigger and have meat in them,” I said. Keep It Together, Keiko Carter 2020-05-05T00:00:00Z They sold spicy crabs in one shack, I remember. The Cay 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z I never had to eat turtles and crabs out of the wharf like a lot of folks did. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z “Pardon me if this is out of line,” she said, “but you sure don’t look like you work on a crab boat.” Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z It was a crisp, blue day that made me feel as I walked across the quadrangle that out near Rass the crabs were beginning to move. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Just the day before, I had helped Osh carry home a bushel of blue crabs all the way from the toe of West End Pond. Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z Her arms and legs were so tired that she felt like an old crab crawling on rocks. Where the Mountain Meets the Moon 2009-07-01T00:00:00Z And he was sure that before he drowned at the bottom of that great river, he was going to be crawled over by dozens and dozens of horrible crabs. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z On Stockton Street, we wandered from one fish store to another, looking for the liveliest crabs. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z We’d catch food there, like fish and shrimp and blue crabs. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z And after more sharp words, that crab and its leg were put into our sack. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z The thought of our sodden, muck-filled downstairs dragged at me like a lead weight on a crab pot. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Sunny had already been staring and shrieking at the figure for some time when Klaus looked up from the spiny crab he was examining, and saw it too. The Bad Beginning 1999-08-25T00:00:00Z “That crab die. Even a beggar don’t want it.” The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z “Hi,” he said while his fingers scratched at the air like the legs on a turned-over crab. Joey Pigza Swallowed the Key 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z Getting into the car, Olive seems like a crab that’s been caught and dropped in a pail. Shouting at the Rain 2019-05-07T00:00:00Z “Bring me apples, Danby, and chestnuts too. Run, Danby, run. Bring me crab apples and horse chestnuts before it’s too late, and get some for yourself.” Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z “Well, sure, so do I,” said Jinny, tossing down a crab shell. Orphan Island 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z This would be true also of the stone crab and other crustaceans which have direct economic importance as human food. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z His amiability to the crab, I feared, was merely a pretense to stop our running. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z In the daytime we went snorkeling or crabbing or wakeboarding behind the skiff. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z She had been watching a pale crab in a low pool for about an hour—maybe die same crab that had tumbled onto her toe the day before. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z Evidence #2: The hermit crabs need me because no one deserves to live in a filthy tank. The Benefits of Being an Octopus 2018-09-04T00:00:00Z So I set my alarm for 4 A.M. in order to check my crab pots before school, then laid out my clothes for the morning. Red Kayak 2004-09-23T00:00:00Z Char’s hand was large and round, the letters evenly spaced, each fully formed—completely unlike my crabbed, spiky writing. Ella Enchanted 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z The two of them clung to it, their backs warmed by the Pacific sun, and together watched starfish and rock crabs. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z She sent the question out to the middle of the table, as if she was asking the platter of crabs. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z I must have cracked and picked a dozen crabs before I even started getting full. Red Kayak 2004-09-23T00:00:00Z Like some giant crab, all spines and legs, but larger than a castle. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z Mormont picked up a crab claw and cracked it in his fist. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z It oozes and flows toward a feeding crab, and as it comes close its yellow eyes burn and its body turns rosy with the pulsing color of anticipation and rage. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z Japanese waters are also rich in clams and oysters and other shellfish, crabs and shrimp and crayfish, and edible seaweeds. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z “Blue mussels here. And here’s a dead stone crab, can you feel his claw? Watch your head now.” All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z I must have been a strange sight, always dressed in men’s work clothes, my hands as rough and weathered as the sides of the crab house where I worked. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z The sun backs away from the world like a crab and the days grow shorter, the nights grow longer, more dark and dangerous. Grendel 1971-01-01T00:00:00Z The rain continued sporadically, so that by Wednesday the creek had swollen to the trunk of the crab apple and they were running through ankle-deep water to make their flight into Terabithia. Bridge to Terabithia 1997-10-21T00:00:00Z In a cardboard box, a half dozen deviled crabs shifted as Ben placed the box in the wagon. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z This was a pose called hollowback, and it was a move that might’ve been, for me, even harder than the crab walk. A Very Large Expanse of Sea 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z Around her, neighbors scrambled with wooden buckets, looting the beach for stranded fish and crabs. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z I was still at the crab house, but bored with lack of crabs to watch and pack, when suddenly the light from the doorway was blocked. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z “Why did you walk around all day with rubber balls in your hands ?” “Because rubber balls—” said Orr. “—are better than crab apples ?” Orr sniggered as he shook his head. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z Just then, two boys swim over to it, and the shorter one catches the horseshoe crab and holds it up. Shouting at the Rain 2019-05-07T00:00:00Z It had nothing to do with the scarcity of crabs or feeling sorry for the bay. Red Kayak 2004-09-23T00:00:00Z Ezeka’s crabbed handwriting had listed all he had sent on the front of the sheet. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z “I am lost at sea,” she said as she limped along beside her meandering rivulet, “so perhaps I’ll find some crabs, or a nice fat fish.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z At last year’s Chinese New Year dinner, my mother had cooked eleven crabs, one crab for each person, plus an extra. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z His long black hair and beard were streaked with silver, and a great overhanging forehead shadowed his glinting eyes, putting Harry in mind of a crab looking out from beneath a rock. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z Arturo walked like a crab over to the bucket, careful to keep his footing on the slanted roof. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z I could crab like a man if I chose. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z At the top of the stairs, I squat down and scoot like a crab under the windows. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z “You find any crabs?” he shouted to the kid. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z I poked the crabs with a pencil to see how feisty they were. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z When the platter of steaming crabs was passed around, Waverly was first and she picked the best crab, the brightest, the plumpest, and put it on her daughter’s plate. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z He turns the crab toward his own face, looks it in the eye, and smiles. Shouting at the Rain 2019-05-07T00:00:00Z The crab walk was exactly as strange as it sounded. A Very Large Expanse of Sea 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z The German haunts her: in nightmares, he’s a spider crab three meters high; he clacks his claws and whispers One simple question into her ear. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z When they got going again, the number three man caught another crab. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z “Were going to teach you how to do the crab walk. That will be your signature power move.” A Very Large Expanse of Sea 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z She did, however, propose that we wash the windows, a job we had done quite thoroughly at the end of the crab season. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z But among crabs, as among people, there are many different hereditary lines. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z “You’re not allowed to harvest horseshoe crabs here. It’s against the law.” Shouting at the Rain 2019-05-07T00:00:00Z “Look at you,” he said, pointing to her cupped hands, “you can’t even feed yourself with those crab claws. How can you keep anyone else in good health?” Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z It doesn’t move forward; it sort of moves sideways, like a crab. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z I was getting better at holding the crab pose now—I’d almost managed to hold my body weight up on my elbows yesterday—and I wanted to see if I’d make more progress this afternoon. A Very Large Expanse of Sea 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z I crammed in as much schooling at home as possible, because once the crabs were moving, I’d be back on duty at the floats and in the crab house. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z It’s seafood night, and Mom is making her special crab boil: crab legs, corn on the cob, andouille sausage, crawfish, jumbo shrimp, and small red potatoes. Watch Us Rise 2019-02-12T00:00:00Z “Who wanted to eat a lobster or a crab? Why not a stinkbug or an earwig?” Keep It Together, Keiko Carter 2020-05-05T00:00:00Z The crab and anemone recognize each other as partners by molecular configurations, as do the anemones and their symbiotic damsel fish. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z At first I thought my parents would put up a fight when one Sunday morning I just didn’t come back from the crab house in time for church. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z All my crab money, my boarding school money—to feed a pack of yowling, stinking cats. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Sponge crabs—those are the females, with their eggs. Red Kayak 2004-09-23T00:00:00Z She wanted to paint the feel of the sand beneath her toes, the crackling of dry empty crab shells as she popped them between her palms. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z Evidence #1: Hermit crabs in the science classroom don’t look down on me. The Benefits of Being an Octopus 2018-09-04T00:00:00Z The taller boy reaches over and grabs ahold of one of the crab’s legs. Shouting at the Rain 2019-05-07T00:00:00Z I was not too fond of crab, ever since I saw my birthday crab boiled alive, but 1 knew 1 could not refuse. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z These had been designed to make Abwehr messages harder to crack, but the British had picked up on the patterns, which they called “lobsters” and “crabs.” The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z The crab moves sideways, running for the edge, but hits Ronan’s foot. Shouting at the Rain 2019-05-07T00:00:00Z The horseshoe crab is a primitive fossil of a beast, ancient and uncitified, but he is just as vulnerable to disorganization by endotoxin as a rabbit or a man. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z One of them began to lack and talk about a basket full of crabs. The Awakening 1899-01-01T00:00:00Z They began with a broth of crab and monkfish, and cold egg lime soup as well. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z Our crab house was gone and the floats as well, but we had our boat. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z “Why don’t you just teach a crab to play the piano?” Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z I knock the crabs off with my hand and pull the chicken out for another round. Shouting at the Rain 2019-05-07T00:00:00Z She picks at a crab with a fork. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z Dozens of people, many of them children, treaded water, checking crab traps and hoisting river prawns up to their parents and friends, who waited up top with buckets. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z He claimed to have consistently warned the staff of the danger—“so much so that I see myself as an ‘old crab,’ but now maybe warnings will be given more respect.” Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z Fiddler crabs scurry when you’re ten yards away; howler monkeys stir in their branches when you’re at twenty; African buffaloes react at seventy-five. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z There, crabs had already begun feasting on the eyes of the dead. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z He reminisced about walking down the street with my mom to the Super 99, the dust blowing up everywhere, the heat pounding down, and about looking for crabs between the rocks along the bay. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z Fish swam on the water, and crabs ran about the sandy bottom. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z Once, after she heard one of my dreams about a crow and a crab, she got quiet. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z Eventually, there come to be a great many samurai crabs. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z No solid contour was certain, but all devolved with the evening into one crabbed mass, gnarled and dark beneath the moon. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z Even though Leah and I had been crabbing at each other all week, that afternoon in the palace at Abomey for some reason we all got quiet as dead bats. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z Sammy and James took the few bony fish they had caught and baited the crab traps. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z At that same instant, in Fernanda's bed, his twin brother came to the end of the prolonged and terrible martyrdom of the steel crabs that were eating his throat away. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z I’d mastered the crab walk pretty well, believe it or not. A Very Large Expanse of Sea 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z After Call left, I gave up progging and took over the responsibility of my father’s crab floats. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z No lobsters, no crabs, no bait left in the kitchen. The Young Man and the Sea 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z Dad swerved the boat, cut speed, and ducked the craft into a little branch canal and under an ancient, crumbling stone wharf that smelled of crab flesh. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z A crab creature was staring directly at him from the distance. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z No gulls were flying, the otter lay quiet in the kelp, and the little crabs were deep in their holes. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z The girls crabbed their way up, using their hands and feet in combination. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z “Tss! Why you listen to her? Why you want to follow behind her, chasing her words? She is like this crab.” The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z Back home, my mother unwrapped the crabs from their newspaper liners and then dumped them into a sinkful of cold water. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z I guess any kind of pet’s okay once you get used to it, but I wouldn’t trade Shiloh for all the hermit crabs in the world. Shiloh 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z I backed away, crablike, further into darkness—like a crab retreating in pain when you strike two stones at the mouth of his underwater den. Grendel 1971-01-01T00:00:00Z This evening they had supped on oxtail soup, summer greens tossed with pecans, grapes, red fennel, and crumbled cheese, hot crab pie, spiced squash, and quails drowned in butter. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z “It has to sit on the bottom somewhere so the crabs can get to it.” Shouting at the Rain 2019-05-07T00:00:00Z It must have been my own voice, because now I know, of course, that crabs have no vocal cords. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z He waved the fingers of one hand, gripping tightly to the rope of his crab trap with the other. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z There was not much he could do about the peelers in our floats, except hope the storm would leave him a few of the floats and spare his crab shanty for one more season. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z More fiddler crabs emerged from their holes, scurrying crazily and getting closer to where we sat. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z “Was a time when I’d have twice as many crabs here for the work we done this mornin’,” Dad said soberly as he surveyed the catch. Red Kayak 2004-09-23T00:00:00Z I’d watch them there in the float, knowing once they shed that last time and turned into grown-up lady crabs there was nothing left for them. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Dead fish and lobsters and pink crabs lay everywhere, and two small whales were stranded against the rock walls of the cove. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z One thing’s for sure: If none of this had happened, I’d be out there crabbing every day, baiting my pots in the morning and pulling them in after school. Red Kayak 2004-09-23T00:00:00Z “We have to be orderly there and not act like idiots. We took our stuff already. And Will caught three jellyfish at the big beach and also a dead crab. Will you come see them?” We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z I dip my crab cakes in tartar sauce, and imagine Ashley yelling at me for doing so. Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z Nearby, Lord Celtigar coughed fitfully and covered his wrinkled face with a square of linen embroidered in red crabs. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z It stood there for a moment, like a crab tasting the air, and then it made one triumphant, nail-clacking leap onto the center of the paper tablecloth. Coraline 2002-02-24T00:00:00Z Then, one by one, she grabbed the crabs by their back, hoisted them out of the sink and shook them dry and awake. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z “He has the crab in his pocket, but the jellies are in a bucket of water,” says Taft, and runs off. We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z During the end of March and most of April, my father caught and salted alewives for crab bait, overhauled the motor on the Portia Sue, and converted it once more for crabbing. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z And then, almost at once, we will be in the harbor, tying up beside Captain Billy’s unpainted two-story ferry house, which leans wearily against a long, low shed used for the captain’s crab shipping business. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z I order miso soup, shrimp tempura, and California rolls with cooked fake crab. Black Brother, Black Brother 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z Abbey’s new project was building an Olympic village for hermit crabs, and Dad really got into it. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z I watched the little crab dart away beneath the waves. Red Kayak 2004-09-23T00:00:00Z Once, I started with terror at a ratcheting upon my foot, to find a horseshoe crab trundling past in search of a pool, its saber-tail and lobed armor grotesque in the extreme. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z Rather than argue, I put my crab bucket and money on the edge of the porch and stepped out of my overalls. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z “What if someone else had picked that crab?” The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z Still, he says he’ll haul out those crab pots again in the spring. Red Kayak 2004-09-23T00:00:00Z "We have to be careful. Once we get an epidemic of lice, or crabs, or scabies, it is near impossible to get rid of 'em." Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z A tiny crab fell out and skittered into a corner. Red Kayak 2004-09-23T00:00:00Z Averaging a pound and a half per trap, keeper size, and more crab than I know what to do with. The Young Man and the Sea 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z Ms. Clark sat behind the front desk computer, her lunch spread out, tuna on white bread with a bag of Utz crab chips. Monday's Not Coming 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z I was aware of his clean, masculine smell and at the same time of the smell of salt water and crab, which was my only perfume. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Maybe it was because I didn’t like crab in the first place. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z After a brief standoff, the crab cautiously backed away. The Wild Robot 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z Sometimes they found small water creatures like crabs or clams to eat. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z He reached down and scooped up a baby blue crab, which he cupped in his hands. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z “Do they kill the crabs to do that?” Shouting at the Rain 2019-05-07T00:00:00Z We paused to net a huge male crab, a true number one Jimmy, swimming doubled over a she-crab. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Or she would skip the meat and cream altogether and serve crab cakes. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z At 4 A.M., when I heard Dad get up to go crabbing, I got up to go with him. Red Kayak 2004-09-23T00:00:00Z He quickly pushed something—a crab trap, perhaps?—down under the water. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z Then he moved again, crabbing forward, but when he got there Kiowa was almost completely under. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z So Call was surprised when, on a Tuesday, I proposed that we wind up the crabbing an hour early and pay a visit to the Captain. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z “You know why. They were going to hurt that horseshoe crab.” Shouting at the Rain 2019-05-07T00:00:00Z Then the newly soft crabs will be packed in eelgrass and the boxes taken to Captain Billy’s for shipping to the mainland. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z I'm wearing undies and a hospital gown that flaps open in the back, so when she asks me to walk, heel to toe, across the room, I sidestep like a crab. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z “Under the sea the mermen feast on starfish soup, • and all the serving men are crabs,” Patchface proclaimed as they went. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z I thought I was doing the right thing, taking the crab with the missing leg. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z “Rangoon. Deep-fried dumplings with crab, garlic, and cream cheese inside.” Free Lunch 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z At about seven I would head home for breakfast and then back to the crab house and floats until our four-thirty supper. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Paul had taken me crabbing, and when he’d brought up a net full of the things, he’d shown me how crabs have a chink in their armor, right in the middle of their ugly bellies. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z If I arrive in late spring, the crab houses will be surrounded by slat floats that hold and protect peeler crabs in the water of the Bay until they have shed. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Auntie Lindo gestured with a crab leg to my mother’s red sweater. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z The shells of crabs snapped under our heels. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z It had a cheap fragrance, which I tried to fool myself would cover the essence of crab. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Two feet over the water, a crab lets go. Shouting at the Rain 2019-05-07T00:00:00Z And in the fountain squatted a giant crab. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z A crab scampering over the bottom raised a little cloud of sand, and when it settled the pearl was gone. The Pearl 1947-01-01T00:00:00Z “The crabs now, they don’t crave music, but oysters,” he explained shyly, “there’s nothing they favor more than a purty tune.” Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Felicia, Fani, and Emilia could admire him from tables covered with moro crabs and caramel puddings. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z My father poked at the remnants of his crab. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z So I said, ‘Honey, come see what I’m making Alvin for his supper. A pot of gumbo. With shrimp and fresh crabs. It’s just about ready. Come on, honey, have a taste.’ In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z I knew almost as much about blue crabs as a seasoned waterman. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z And after all that watching, she figured the crab deserved a name, and so she gave it one: Zerubabel. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z The sea recedes for a moment, exposing a family of silvery crabs. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z When school let out in the middle of May, I began getting up long before dawn to go crabbing. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z He started talking loudly to my mother in Cantonese, and my mother, who spoke Cantonese so poorly it sounded just like her Mandarin, was talking loudly back, pointing to the crab and its missing leg. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z Each crab had two larger chunks of meat in it, and an awful lot of stringy little pieces. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z One afternoon I came in for supper from the crab house to find Momma trying to bake bread. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Mouse paid no attention to anything except a mole crab that decided it had lived long enough and tunneled up through the sand directly between her front paws. Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z By the time the water had left the yard and street, most of our downstairs, though smelling more like a crab shanty than a proper house, was at least cleaned out. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z One look at a crab’s swimming leg and I could tell almost to the hour when the critter was going to shed. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Porky snapped—literally, since he clicked his fingers to his thumbs like crab claws. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z We feel that a man should be able to change his name as he changes, the way a hermit crab can throw away his shell when it’s too small and find another one. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z “Just think,” Dad went on as he plucked out a small crab from the wooden bin where everything from each pot got dumped and sorted. Red Kayak 2004-09-23T00:00:00Z So curry wasn’t a big part of our meals, but I could tell you what crab cake and barbecue are supposed to taste like. The Boy in the Black Suit 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z Even the leeches and mosquitoes that wanted to suck my blood, even the land crabs whose shells sparkled like turquoise in the moonlight no longer seemed alien to me. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z Coach Hedge leaned toward the crab man and sniffed his glittery wet suit. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z When I was eight, I had played with a crab my mother had brought home for my birthday dinner. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z The essence of artificial selection—for a Heike crab, a dog, a cow or an ear of corn—is this: Many physical and behavioral traits of plants and animals are inherited. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z All this has nothing to do with what the crabs want. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z In the algae that covered the shells of some hawksbills I sometimes found small crabs and barnacles. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z After eating, I helped Mom do the dishes while Dad got rid of the messy mountain of empty crab shells we’d left on the table. Red Kayak 2004-09-23T00:00:00Z From a nearby crab apple tree, a small ball of confused bees hung like a ragged skein of yarn. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z “It is, especially such a language as this crabbed but glorious Deutsch. I wonder when St. John will come home.” Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z When I was six my father taught me how to pole a skiff so I could net crabs in the eelgrass near the shore. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Fall’s a great time for catching crabs before the females head south and the males burrow into the mud. Red Kayak 2004-09-23T00:00:00Z Two aged crab apple trees, bent with the wind, stripped of leaves but still heavy with berry-sized red fruits and bushy crowns of white-beaded mistletoe, stood sentinel on either side of the front door. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z Esther came back with transparent packets of pills, on which instructions, but no names, were written in a crabbed handwriting in blue ink. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z The eyeball became a severed hand, which flipped over and began to creep along the floor like a crab. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z Shrimp and crab shells were littered around the floor of the small cave. Tiger Boy 2015-10-01T00:00:00Z “Too many crab pots, too many trotlines. You have to take the long look.” Red Kayak 2004-09-23T00:00:00Z He is of middle age, cloaked in excremental mud, crabbing slowly along the knife tip of a cliff, his thin hair uncombed and hanging wet across his face. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z —Well, on the night before we were to leave for home, he and I sneaked out to see if we could catch crabs on the beach in the moonlight. Tears of a Tiger 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z By late morning, we had several bushels of crabs sitting there, all separated in bushel baskets. Red Kayak 2004-09-23T00:00:00Z It was back in the days when nearly every boat on the Bay was under sail, before hard blue crabs brought in much money. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Evenings, I threw the ball for Tilly, helped Dad repair some of his broken crab pots, and even offered to help my mother with the dishes one night when it wasn’t my turn. Red Kayak 2004-09-23T00:00:00Z “The locusts are in bloom, so that means the crabs is havin’ their first molt. Red Kayak 2004-09-23T00:00:00Z Johnny sports a snorkeling mask and holds a crab in one hand. We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z In throwing it back, they set in motion an evolutionary process: If you are a crab and your carapace is ordinary, the humans will eat you. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Birds, fish, crabs, and useful insects were killed. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z It was almost ten years before he was strong enough to buy a boat of his own and go after crabs and oysters like a true Rass waterman. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z You have never seen me eat a crab to this day and you never will. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z She kissed us all, including the Captain and Call, who turned the color of steamed crab at her touch. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Mouse mistook my toe for a mole crab, and I used the excuse to duck away and off down the beach to sit by myself for a while. Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z I’m sure I turned the color of steamed crab. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Those big crabs made me nervous about going out at night. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z The closer he came to the dry creek bed and the crab apple tree rope the more he could feel the beating of his heart. Bridge to Terabithia 1997-10-21T00:00:00Z Illegal to keep them in Maryland—you know, an effort to help boost the crab population. Red Kayak 2004-09-23T00:00:00Z It was always a long wait between fresh crops of crabs. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z “There ain’t nothing here tuh do but count legs,” Georgia Boy said as we sat in our barracks watching the land crabs scuttling up and down the coconut trees. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z “Get back there and don’t come up again unless you’ve got a crab in each hand!” A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z He flailed at his oars, George noted, “like a bewildered crab.” The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z Lizzie Griffin, who belonged to the toe, grinned at the crab’s frantic turnings as it tried to sort out claws and legs. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z The little crabs scampered and skittered out of their way. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z Me and Mom always get shrimp fried rice, Aunt Sophie gets crab sticks, which I always thought was a weird choice, and King nine times out of ten orders a cheeseburger with two egg rolls. Ghost 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z Did I feed them to the crabs instead? A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z If you’ve ever seen a crab’s mouth, all foamy and gross with whiskers and snapping bits, you can imagine this one didn’t look any better blown up to billboard size. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z Milton, along with everyone else, leapt into the confusion—the black rocks, the sucking undertow, the Mexican beer bottles, the startled crabs. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z "There isn't more than a ha'porth of meat in a crab." Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z They stopped for a picnic at the side of a meadow, under a crab apple tree. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z It leaps savagely on the crab, there is a puff of black fluid, and the struggling mass is obscured in the sepia cloud while the octopus murders the crab. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z Rather than walk facing forward, he rotated his body and moved sideways, like a crab. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z "Because if you want a fire to cook fish or crab, you can jolly well go up the mountain. That way we'll be certain." Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z I knew her more than I knew myself: her favorite color was pink, she loved crab legs and corn on the cob, hated running late, and was allergic to peanuts. Monday's Not Coming 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z This remarkable star, 5,000 light-years distant, is now called the Crab Supernova, because an astronomer centuries later was unaccountably reminded of a crab when looking at the explosion remnant through his telescope. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z The horseshoe crab splashes into the water and swims away. Shouting at the Rain 2019-05-07T00:00:00Z I had forgotten that life, like a crab pot, catches a lot of trash you haven’t bargained for. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Most of the parents had once been fishermen—not crabbing around the docks but out on the river, with boats and nets of their own. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z Riding the muddy surface were sections of picket fence, giant tree limbs, crab pots, remnants of floats and crab houses, boats, and...“What’s that?” Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z These crabs are so highly susceptible to insecticides that every spraying of creeks, ditches, and ponds in tidal marshes kills most of the crabs living there. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z The patterns on the crab’s shell are inherited. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Spiky red flowers aim their petals toward the dwarf sun like a spiny crab reaching out with its claws. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z I breathe in a lot Of good fresh Saturday air And let my Fingers run like A wild crab Across the strings. Neighborhood Odes 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z He walked sideways on bowed legs like a crab, his back hunched, his arms raised on either side like he was holding invisible plates. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z I want to say that I am a rock crab and Tressa is a seagull, but I know Grammy would say I am being dramatic. Shouting at the Rain 2019-05-07T00:00:00Z They found the first body in one of the cabins, a shirtless man, his eyes still wide, crabs lurking in his guts. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z My old friends the giant land crabs were there, too. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z She taught her to dig for clams along the beach and to pluck the fish from the nets and the crabs from their traps without squealing. Orphan Island 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z “Suppose someone gives things to you? Like when people brought bushels of crabs and dishes of cooked food to the house when Gran died?” Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z My first thought was to stay home and help with the crabs until September. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z The beach for blacks someone told me, was a strip of rock littered with seaweed and dead crabs some three miles from where I was staying. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z When I was a child I once saw four boys, much bigger than I was, pulling the legs off crabs. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z Her valentine hairline, the heart in her ribs and all the ones on her sleeves twinkled like the pinchers of the crab in the sky. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z Call and I were right smart crabbers, and we could always come home with a little money as well as plenty of crab for supper. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Then I began to catch crabs and soon I was just chopping along again with a thin brown taste of bile from having rowed too hard after the brandy. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z The third man scrabbled away like a crab, slipped into the pool, and then he began to climb frantically, to climb up the cliff where the water penciled down. The Pearl 1947-01-01T00:00:00Z Falteringly I work my way farther, I move off over the ground like a crab and rip my hands sorely on the jagged splinters, as sharp as razor blades. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z More important than the crab houses, however, are the boats, tied along the docks. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Frogmore stew didn’t have frogs in it, but it did have crab and shrimp cooked in a rich tomato broth with corn and potatoes. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z “So what else did you do at the market? Did the peas sell out? Get another crab sandwich?” As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z Suppose that, by chance, among the distant ancestors of this crab, one arose with a pattern that resembled, even slightly, a human face. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z The taste of strawberry soda had to be right up there with El Patron’s moro crabs flown in from Yucatan. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z Matt felt sure that if there was a heaven, it contained moro crabs flown in from Yucatan and a table covered with caramel puddings. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z His sisters were gone to Morton in my stead: I sat reading Schiller; he, deciphering his crabbed Oriental scrolls. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z He grabs the crab from behind as it emerges from its hole and rips off the claws and throws them away and then devours the rest of the crab. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z They never seemed to bother each other, those rats and land crabs, but they sure as shootin’ bothered me. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z Probably there are only jellyfish and tiny crabs, but even with those slim pickings we have snorkeled at the tiny beach, always. We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z Here a crab tears a leg from his brother. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z Kinda soggy and cool crab Rangoon, but still. Ask the Passengers 2012-10-23T00:00:00Z The old, on the other hand, are shrewd, “sour-tempered,” crabbed with disappointment, and have “many opinions but no knowledge”: they never leap wholeheartedly into a thing, but always hedge around it with “maybe” and “perhaps.” Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z Shoshana had wandered over to the piano and was banging notes out with a crab claw in each hand. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z However, it belongs to the same group of arthropods as the blue crab, has essentially the same physiology, and would presumably suffer the same effects. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z When he bent down to inspect it, the crab promptly fastened its miniature claws to his nose and hung there, like a weird painted ornament. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z I could pole a skiff quickly and quietly, and nearsighted as he was he could spy a crab by just a tip of the claw through grass and muck. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z The grass surrounding the cabins was short and prickly, and pale pink crabs skittered at their feet, each the size of a fingertip. Orphan Island 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z I got braver like a crab going sideways. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Once you have been at sea for a couple of days, it smells like every fish you have ever eaten, every crab you have ever caught, every jellyfish that has ever bitten your leg. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z I wasn’t sorry or glad not to have them, but made a mental note to look up “crabs” in the library on my next trip. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z No one had told me to turn over all the money I made crabbing. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Instead I feel something cold and round and plastic, and when I look, it’s a fishbowl with sand in it and a hermit crab, scurrying around with a shell on its back. Shiloh 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z When Dae Hyun was thirteen and still living in South Korea, his father began grooming him to take over the family’s meager crab fishing business. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z I dig my fingernails into that other boy’s stomach and hang on tight like a crab. The Skin I'm In 1998-10-16T00:00:00Z I observe a small crab rising out of his shirt pocket. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z I hitched my skiff to the pine and started at a trot for the back porch, a bucket of hard crabs in one hand and a fistful of money in the other. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z “I don’t like to talk about that stuff. But I do talk to Delsie all the time. Did she tell you about Darwin, the crab that I threw back into the water?” Shouting at the Rain 2019-05-07T00:00:00Z In a soft voice she explained how he’d been under some pressure lately to join the other watermen in a protest against the state’s new crabbing regulations. Red Kayak 2004-09-23T00:00:00Z Even though I mostly spent the periods cleaning Mr. Peck’s hermit crab tanks, I liked the time with them. The Benefits of Being an Octopus 2018-09-04T00:00:00Z “I shake that crab before cook. His legs—droopy. His mouth—wide open, already like a dead person.” The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z Golly Moses, she thought, it was only a tiny crab, after all. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z Larger holes showed where frogs and crabs and crawling things made their homes, protected from the burning heat of the sun. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z As the school approached the sunken crab boat, it divided as cleanly as if it had been sliced by a saber. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z People would come up the path to the house with bags of fresh-caught shrimp or a bushel of snapping blue crabs or a few whiting just off the fishing pole. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z Lying on top of a volume of the World Book Encyclopedia, a grubby piece of lined paper was folded in half, with “Marion” written on the outer edge in Bunny’s tiny, crabbed hand. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z I was going to double my crab catch and keep half the money for myself, turning over to my mother the usual amount. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z To this day, I remember that crab screaming as he thrust one bright red claw out over the side of the bubbling pot. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z He tossed the undersize crab back in the water. Red Kayak 2004-09-23T00:00:00Z “That’s a horseshoe crab. Cool to actually see one. We find their shells on Seagull Beach all the time.” Shouting at the Rain 2019-05-07T00:00:00Z Queenie’s white tail stump is visible for only a moment before she burrows further into the straw, like a crab in sand. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z He examines the horseshoe crab and then turns it over. Shouting at the Rain 2019-05-07T00:00:00Z They looked like a cross between giant scorpions and elongated crabs — but still without recognizable heads or eyes. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z To his right stood a beautiful woman in green armor with flowing black hair and strange little horns like crab claws. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z I lifted the shell and smelled the crab. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z If you kept going south, on down past Queenstown, the river would hook around in the west, then the north and empty into the Chesapeake Bay, but mostly we crabbed the river. Red Kayak 2004-09-23T00:00:00Z I can tell he still likes me after Saturday night because he’s bought me crab Rangoon. Ask the Passengers 2012-10-23T00:00:00Z We might make as much as fifty cents on that one catch, ten times the price of a soft blue crab. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Muller was the person who first called my attention to the Heike crab as an example of artificial selection. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Annabeth had told me about a monster crab—something about Hercules crushing it under his foot? The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z And I determined that the crab and I had come to a great understanding when it finally heaved itself up and walked clear across the counter. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z Then you broke the crab in half, like a turnover, and picked out the meat from between sections of cartilage. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z “See how we’re slant against the sun? ’Cause there’s a whopper of a crosswind, so we have to crab. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z He’d been killed and tied to a wagon wheel and tossed into the water until he drowned or the crabs ate him. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z “Either do something with those crab pots tomorrow or pull ’em in,” Dad said. Red Kayak 2004-09-23T00:00:00Z I checked Vonetta’s letter and rolled my eyes about the “giant crab” part. P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z That’s the way Chinese mothers show they love their children, not through hugs and kisses but with stern offerings of steamed dumplings, duck’s gizzards, and crab. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z “When I couldn’t get crab apples,” Orr continued, “I used horse chestnuts. Horse chestnuts are about the same size as crab apples and actually have a better shape, although the shape doesn’t matter a bit.” Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z Prone to pounding his megaphone on the gunwales of his coaching launch in exasperation, he once hurled it at an oarsman who had caught a crab. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z I’m on the social studies side because that’s the class I would usually have now, but at least I can see the tanks of hermit crabs on the science side. The Benefits of Being an Octopus 2018-09-04T00:00:00Z I was too clever to pin all my hopes on crabs. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z At night as the lovers lay in bed and connected the stars into rams and crabs and twins, they heard the barks and howls of the happy mating beasts. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z Most of the crabs hunkered down and refused to budge. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z He’s walking funny, kind of like a crab, and he keeps looking around like he’s waiting for something to jump out and attack him. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z The seashore teemed with no weeds, no crabs, no crayfish, no coral, no pebbles, no rocks. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z “Now put it back in the bucket. Grammy will make some great crab cakes out of it. With extra tartar sauce. You’ll love them.” Shouting at the Rain 2019-05-07T00:00:00Z The place of the fiddler crab in the ecology of the world it inhabits is a necessary one, not easily filled. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z “I’m just gonna scoot around you so—” The crab moved with amazing speed. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z The city of Hampton changed its official seal to depict a crab holding a Mercury capsule in its claw, adopting the motto E Praeteritis Futura: Out of the past, the future. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z “It’s soft-shell crab,” Grandma said, inching forward as the line did. As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z “Dad even said it was good I had another job this summer because crabs are few and far between.” Red Kayak 2004-09-23T00:00:00Z Plovers run along the sand looking for tiny crabs, and gulls glide and cry overhead. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z The fiddler crab, that small and picturesque crustacean whose hordes move over mud flats or sand flats like grazing cattle, has no defense against the sprayers. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z I recognized Dad’s crabbed scrawl on a small brown cardboard box. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z Fiddler crabs bubbled and sputtered in their holes in the sand, and in the shallows little lobsters popped in and out of their tiny homes in the rubble and sand. The Pearl 1947-01-01T00:00:00Z I had talked to a reporter once before, when I was nine and a newspaper did a story on me being one of the youngest kids in Maryland to have a commercial crab license. Red Kayak 2004-09-23T00:00:00Z I probably should have been getting up to pull my crab pots, but my parents didn’t care if I took a morning off. Red Kayak 2004-09-23T00:00:00Z He was shaking the hand that he’d hit me with, as if there were a crab or a mousetrap attached to it. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z You can always tell when crab eaters are having a feeding bout on crabs because you hear an occasional string of shrieks coming out of the swamp as a result of difficulty with a crab. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Where else, after all, did the tide set a pale crab on your toe? Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z “We was playing, Mama, that’s all. Picking up crabs and stuff.” Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z Captain Billy’s son Otis emerged from the unpainted crab shipping shed. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z He was taking her to the thick eelgrass, where she would shed for the last time and become a grown-up lady crab—a sook. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z He felt a scratchy scraping of thick crab legs all over his back. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z Lobsters, lots of ’em, and a bunch of crabs. The Young Man and the Sea 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z Would pull her down, leaving on the surface a spinning swirl like crabs leave when they burrow downwards on a beach. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z “I've got crab pots set down by the dock,” their grandmother said. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z “Mercy, Wheeze, you stink like a crab shanty.” Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z At that crab dinner, I was so mad about what she said about my hair that I wanted to embarrass her, to reveal in front of everybody how petty she was. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z He winds up his arm and throws the crab well beyond the reach of chicken on string. Shouting at the Rain 2019-05-07T00:00:00Z The missing toes on his left foot had left him with a crabbed, awkward gait, comical to look upon. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z The King sat looking at his fingers, and they waited while the old thoughts ran sideways across his hands like crabs. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z The crab looked up and immediately showed off his giant claws. The Wild Robot 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z I gasped and felt my body pull back on the free part of me, drawing me in like a crab on a fishing line. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z |
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