hermit-crab

At the Purple Octopus souvenir shop, the naughty T-shirts and hermit-crab houses still weren't selling.

Vacation town Gulf Shores glimpses break from spill routine as BP well cap holds 2010

Number 4 is clearly a hermit-crab themed birthday party...

Botched Balloons Jen 2009

I was assured, and as far as my observations went I found it so, that certain species of the hermit-crab always use certain species of shells.

Journal of researches into the geology and natural history of the various countries visited by H.M.S. Beagle 2003

Chevreuse, I was able to discover successively hidden, as in the hospitable abode of a hermit-crab, a Guise, a Prince of Savoy, an

The Guermantes Way 2003

I was assured, and as far as my observations went I found it so, that certain species of the hermit-crab always use certain species of shells.

Journal of researches into the geology and natural history of the various countries visited by H.M.S. Beagle 2003

Albertine as is added to the hermit-crab the new shell which it drags after it, but, rather, like a salt which comes in contact with another salt, alters its colour, and, what is more, its nature.

The Sweet Cheat Gone 2003

The hermit-crab grows spontaneously out of soil and slime, and finds its way into untenanted shells.

The History of Animals 2002

It's a crab, - a hermit-crab, the smallest of its kind; it writes tragedies.

The Wasps 2000

Two ways of thinking of him would be as the hermit-crab, needing some tougher dead creature's shell to tuck its tail into; or as the poet as role-player.

Three British Poets Fraser, G. S 1964

He would have been a hermit-crab still, fitted with another shell by the kindness of his friends.

Lippincott's Magazine, December 1878 Various