crawfishes

The crawfishes have five feet on either side, including the claws at the end; and in like manner the crabs have ten feet in all, including the claws.

The History of Animals 2002

We drew prancing starfishes; frogs in mortal combat; hydra-headed worms; stately crawfishes, standing on their tails, bearing aloft umbrellas; and grotesque fishes with gaping mouths and staring eyes.

Louis Agassiz as a Teacher; illustrative extracts on his method of instruction Lane Cooper

On the river-shore crawfishes were lazily creeping over the gravel.

Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Volume 22. October, 1878. Various

Spiders, thousand-legs, crawfishes and even earth-worms are often spoken of as bugs.

An Elementary Study of Insects Leonard Haseman

Down the silvery cascade he glided and whirled away through the running water, frightening the minnows and miller's thumbs lying among the stones in the shallow places, and startling the crawfishes and little fresh water lobsters hidden under the hollow banks.

The Magic Soap Bubble David Magie Cory 1919

It is the same as why boys go running lickety-split away from a school-room geography lesson in April when the crawfishes come out and the young frogs are calling55 and the pussywillows and the cat-tails know something about geography themselves.

Potato Blossom Songs and Jigs 1918

Once I caught five crawfishes there, while Marian waited on the bank; and afterward we found an old tomato-can and boiled them in it, and they came out a really gorgeous crimson.

The Cords of Vanity A Comedy of Shirking James Branch Cabell 1918

We drew prancing starfishes; frogs in mortal combat; hydra-headed worms; stately crawfishes, standing on their tails, bearing aloft umbrellas; and grotesque fishes with gaping mouths and staring eyes.

Louis Agassiz as a Teacher Cooper, Lane, 1875-1959 1917

His pedler's pack was buried in the mud so deep that not even the probing crawfishes could find it.

The Escape of Mr. Trimm His Plight and other Plights 1910

In the waters above them little suckers and chubs and prickly sculpins strained their mouths to draw these globules from the sand, and vicious-looking crawfishes picked them up with their blundering hands and examined them with their telescopic eyes.

Children's Literature A Textbook of Sources for Teachers and Teacher-Training Classes Charles Madison Curry 1906