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  • Get soft-shells when you can; if only hard-shells are available, use smaller ones and remove the front pincers.

    How to Fish for Smallmouth Bass in the Fall 2004

  • Get soft-shells when you can; if only hard-shells are available, use smaller ones and remove the front pincers.

    The Smallmouth Blitz 2004

  • It seemed to Jemunu-jah an unnecessary activity, since by now both hard-shells were soaking wet.

    Drowning World Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- 2003

  • It seemed to Jemunu-jah an unnecessary activity, since by now both hard-shells were soaking wet.

    Drowning World Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- 2003

  • As they drew nearer, he saw that each protective layer sheltered one of the other major partners in the Commonwealth, the hard-shells who called themselves thranx.

    Drowning World Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- 2003

  • As they drew nearer, he saw that each protective layer sheltered one of the other major partners in the Commonwealth, the hard-shells who called themselves thranx.

    Drowning World Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- 2003

  • The Holiness crowd was a crew of good-for-nothin ', hollerin' hard-shells.

    Galusha the Magnificent Joseph Crosby Lincoln 1907

  • It's generally known that when eating prey with hard-shells, such as eggs or beetles, mongooses either bite through the outer shell or smash it on a hard surface.

    Earth News, Earth Science, Energy Technology, Environment News 2010

  • Soft-shell lobsters are the same species as hard-shells, but have more recently cast off their shells to grow new ones.

    Morning Sentinel News BY MARIO MORETTO 2010

  • Three Sons last week was selling small soft-shell lobsters for $5.49 a pound and hard-shells - which have more meat - for $6.49.

    Original Signal - Transmitting Buzz 2009

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