Crabs
[kræbz]
Unserious Contents or Definition
To dream of crabs, indicates that you will have many complicated affairs, for the solving of which you will be forced to exert the soundest judgment. This dream portends to lovers a long and difficult courtship.
Edited by Josie
Examples
- It had a pale ruddy sea-bottom, with black crabs and sea-weed moving sinuously under a transparent sea, that passed into flamy ruddiness above. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- Here Darwin observed crabs of monstrous size, with a structure which ena bled them to open the cocoanuts. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
- Besides the water-crabs that we are most of us used to seeing and eating, there are several different kinds of land-crabs. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- The gills of crustaceans, such as the crabs which run about in the air, are protected by the gill-cover extensions of the back shell or carapace. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Why do They Call Them Fiddler-Crabs? Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- Again he laughed, and said: 'Change it with Ursula, for the crabs. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- Then I began to catch crabs and soon I was just chopping along again with a thin brown taste of bile from having rowed too hard after the brandy. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
- I remember eating sloes and crabs with a relish. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
Edited by Leopold