langoustes

They could just toss my corpse into the waters off Saline Beach and leave it for the langoustes.

Don't you dare die on me Arbogast 2008

The best were the langoustes (Palinurus vulgaris), the clawless lobsters called crawfish (crayfish) in the United States, and the agosta or avagosta of the Adriatic: it was confounded by the

The Land of Midian 2003

Similarly we had laid in a store of forty-two langoustes (crayfish) for presentation at Court, and to gladden the hearts of Cairéne friends: our Greeks placed the tubs in the sun and so close to the funnel, that, after about three hours, all the fine collection perished ignobly.

The Land of Midian 2003

"Local langoustes and garoupa, as well as braised sun bear paw, quite the delicacy here."

The Miko Lustbader, Eric 1984

Spices hung heavy in the air: cinnamon, marjoram, thyme, black pepper and heady nutmeg; there were flapping multicolored rugs and pewter lamps molded into lewd vertical shapes, fresh veg - etables and dried fruits, candies and exotic liquored sweetmeats, fresh fish on shaved ice and crawling langoustes in their salt-water-filled glass cases.

beneath an opal moon Lustbader, Eric 1980

Then came the main courses: cut fowl, golden brown, crisped, rubbed with coarse salt and herbs; broiled shrimps, hardy langoustes; cracked crabs, their shining carapaces blue and red, fresh from the boiling water.

The Ninja Lustbader, Eric 1980

Three of these reservoirs are reserved for fish, the others for crustacea — lobsters and langoustes.

Brittany & Its Byways Fanny Bury Palliser

In fact, one of the first and abiding impressions of Bordeaux is that it is a great place for things to eat -- oysters from Marennes, lobsters and langoustes, pears big as cantaloupes, pomegranates, mushrooms -- the little ones and the big cepes of Bordeaux -- yellow dates just up from

Antwerp to Gallipoli A Year of the War on Many Fronts—and Behind Them Arthur Ruhl 1905

The best shell-fish are the _praires_ and the _clovisses_, about the same size as walnuts or little neck clams; the _clovisses_ are the largest, and rather take the place of oysters when the latter are not in season, in the same way the clam does in America; others are mussels, oysters, and _langoustes_.

The Gourmet's Guide to Europe Algernon Bastard 1885

Similarly we had laid in a store of forty-two langoustes (crayfish) for presentation at Court, and to gladden the hearts of Cairéne friends: our Greeks placed the tubs in the sun and so close to the funnel, that, after about three hours, all the fine collection perished ignobly.

The Land of Midian — Volume 1 Richard Francis Burton 1855