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  • He thought, watching his son fidget with a lobster-claw cracker, that Marc was a young 15.

    Visiting 2010

  • I mean, she'd come out of the kitchen and dance a bit, while baking cornbread or banana pudding — and introduce herself to the few boys I had over, wearing her lobster-claw potholders.

    Tale of the Oozing Scorpion Meg Pokrass 2011

  • She made a lobster-claw gesture with her fingers to demonstrate, and at the sight of it my wrists began to tingle and burn.

    Dirty Secret Jessie Sholl 2011

  • He thought, watching his son fidget with a lobster-claw cracker, that Marc was a young 15.

    Visiting 2010

  • He thought, watching his son fidget with a lobster-claw cracker, that Marc was a young 15.

    Visiting 2010

  • Flame-orange flowers of the lobster-claw heliconia plant arched above the pond.

    Gabriel Hawk's Lady Barton, Beverly 1998

  • They have 'soldiers,' developed from helpless, squashy things into nightmare creations with lobster-claw mandibles longer than the rest of their bodies put together.

    The Raid on the Termites Paul Ernst

  • "But I doubt if even a lobster-claw could keep you still!"

    Sara, a Princess Fannie E. Newberry

  • There is nothing to prevent his formally introducing himself to some nice blonde and watching her get the meat out of a lobster-claw.

    Love Conquers All Robert Benchley 1917

  • "Thou hast not told me, Captain, what voyage thou art about to undertake next," said the Goodman, sucking a lobster-claw with relish.

    The Puritan Twins Lucy Fitch Perkins 1901

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