land-crab

Most of the items listed on the pheromone-tracked planks were not in his reader's vocabulary, and for the rest the translations were inadequate -- how was he supposed to know whether or not "land-crab in the northern style" was something he would find edible?

Asimov's Science Fiction 2005

Even a huge land-crab is furnished by nature with the means to open and feed on this most useful production.

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

Even a huge land-crab is furnished by nature with the means to open and feed on this most useful production.

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

He that is fierce as a bull, and yet tender-hearted like a young child -- the greatest blasphemer on earth, and yet the most religious, or even the most superstitious, of men -- he is not to be tied down by the rules of æsthetics, like a land-crab.

Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 59, No. 363, January, 1846 Various

But by far the most numerous and singular portion of the population of the islet, consisted of a species of large land-crab, inhabiting burrows hollowed out beneath the roots of the trees.

The Island Home Richard Archer

Darting a look over my shoulder I noted to my dismay an enormous land-crab towing our dory seaward.

The Cruise of the Kawa 1911

Even a huge land-crab is furnished by nature with the means to open and feed on this most useful production.

Chapter XX 1909

Mosquitoes tormented him and cockroaches as long as his hand ran over the table; occasionally a land-crab rattled across the room, or a centipede appeared on the open page.

The Conqueror Gertrude Franklin Horn Atherton 1902

The horrid rattle of the land-crab was almost the only sound in that desolate land.

The Conqueror Gertrude Franklin Horn Atherton 1902

On some of the coral islands of the Indian and Pacific Oceans there lives a land-crab, Birgus, which has learned to breathe on land.

The Outline of Science, Vol. 1 (of 4) A Plain Story Simply Told J. Arthur Thomson 1897