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In course of time a sea-anemone comes along and attaches itself to the calcareous peak, the number often amounting to five or six, although there is no bodily relation between the _paguro_ and the organisms on top.
Mare Nostrum (Our Sea) A Novel Vicente Blasco Ib����ez 1897
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The _paguro_ crab is born with the lower part of his case unprotected, -- a most excellent tid-bit, tender and savory for hungry fishes.
Mare Nostrum (Our Sea) A Novel Vicente Blasco Ib����ez 1897
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In this manner the humble _paguro_, carrying upon his back his tower crowned with formidable batteries, inspires terror in the gigantic beasts of the deep.
Mare Nostrum (Our Sea) A Novel Vicente Blasco Ib����ez 1897
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Among the swarm of small crustaceans moving around on the sandy bottom, hunting, eating, or fighting with a ferocious entanglement of claws, the onlookers always search for a bizarre and extravagant little creature, the _paguro_, nicknamed "Bernard, the Hermit."
Mare Nostrum (Our Sea) A Novel Vicente Blasco Ib����ez 1897
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StTffiu fefe crigens, aduerfiii eiim Sirpewf poft caput tnuliebre cum Bgura nuda vnu gcnu flexo fagittam paguro* n.
Lexicon vniversae rei nvmariae vetervm et praecipve Graecorvm ac Romanorvm: cvm observationibvs ... 1790
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XSub paguro adcft figura cuiusdam fcminci marini monfh-i ec ep.
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