crawfishes

• “The crawfishes have five feet on either side, including the claws at the end; and in like manner the crabs have ten feet in all, including the claws.”

  The History of Animals

• “On the river-shore crawfishes were lazily creeping over the gravel.”

  Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Volume 22. October, 1878.

• “Spiders, thousand-legs, crawfishes and even earth-worms are often spoken of as bugs.”

  An Elementary Study of Insects

• “Down the silvery cascade he glided and whirled away through the running water, frightening the minnows and miller's thumbs lying among the stones in the shallow places, and startling the crawfishes and little fresh water lobsters hidden under the hollow banks.”

  The Magic Soap Bubble

• “It is the same as why boys go running lickety-split away from a school-room geography lesson in April when the crawfishes come out and the young frogs are calling55 and the pussywillows and the cat-tails know something about geography themselves.”

  Potato Blossom Songs and Jigs

• “Once I caught five crawfishes there, while Marian waited on the bank; and afterward we found an old tomato-can and boiled them in it, and they came out a really gorgeous crimson.”

  The Cords of Vanity A Comedy of Shirking

• “We drew prancing starfishes; frogs in mortal combat; hydra-headed worms; stately crawfishes, standing on their tails, bearing aloft umbrellas; and grotesque fishes with gaping mouths and staring eyes.”

  Louis Agassiz as a Teacher

• “His pedler's pack was buried in the mud so deep that not even the probing crawfishes could find it.”

  The Escape of Mr. Trimm His Plight and other Plights

• “In the waters above them little suckers and chubs and prickly sculpins strained their mouths to draw these globules from the sand, and vicious-looking crawfishes picked them up with their blundering hands and examined them with their telescopic eyes.”

  Children's Literature A Textbook of Sources for Teachers and Teacher-Training Classes

• “And then, with a quick curtain, the good ship Espagne, a French liner, is discovered in New York harbour the next day with Henry and me aboard her, trying to distinguish as she crawfishes out of the dock, the faces of our waving friends from the group upon the pier.”

  The Martial Adventures of Henry and Me

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