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  • Crabs abound here too and include fiddler crabs, hermit crabs, blue crabs, mud crabs, and square-backed crabs.

    North Inlet-Winyah Bay National Estuarine Research Reserve, South Carolina 2007

  • There are sleek low white flat box-shaped furniture pieces dividing the dining room, the tables are squares draped in white linen, the chairs are white and square-backed and seated, even the windows are large white framed squares with flat, square, sheer, white, curtains.

    Spain 2006

  • There are sleek low white flat box-shaped furniture pieces dividing the dining room, the tables are squares draped in white linen, the chairs are white and square-backed and seated, even the windows are large white framed squares with flat, square, sheer, white, curtains.

    Augieland: 2006

  • There are sleek low white flat box-shaped furniture pieces dividing the dining room, the tables are squares draped in white linen, the chairs are white and square-backed and seated, even the windows are large white framed squares with flat, square, sheer, white, curtains.

    LaBroche: 734 bichromatillian stars 2006

  • The square-backed, untarnished blade flashes in the light.

    No Limits Peter David 2003

  • He thinks, at first, it must be some antique pencil case—until he sees a metallic prong jutting from one end, a hinge, and a thin strip of bright, square-backed metal nestled between ivory spacers.

    No Limits Peter David 2003

  • He'd liked a sketch of a square-backed armchair where the upper joined corners were more like arcs than right angles.

    The Death of Chaos Modesitt, L. E. 1995

  • Within, the high pulpit, surmounted by a sounding-board, towered over the square-backed pews, facing a congregation kept orderly by stern tithing-man and sterner tradition.

    Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Vol. XVI., December, 1880. Various

  • Once more the little room, with its open corner cupboard, and its square-backed chairs, and its angular little staircase leading to the room above, and its three peacock’s feathers displayed over the mantelpiece—I remember wondering when I first went in, what that peacock would have thought if he had known what his finery was doomed to come to—fades from before me, and I nod, and sleep.

    V. I Am Sent Away from Home 1917

  • Once more the little room, with its open corner cupboard, and its square-backed chairs, and its angular little staircase leading to the room above, and its three peacock's feathers displayed over the mantelpiece - I remember wondering when I first went in, what that peacock would have thought if he had known what his finery was doomed to come to - fades from before me, and I nod, and sleep.

    David Copperfield Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870 1917

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