1 He's not half as bad as he looks, for all he's so crabbed.
2 Ben Weatherstaff's crabbed old face was still wet with that one queer rush of tears.
3 There was a queer mixture of crabbed tenderness and shrewd understanding in his manner.
4 His sisters were gone to Morton in my stead: I sat reading Schiller; he, deciphering his crabbed Oriental scrolls.
5 The bitter check had wrung from me some tears; and now, as I sat poring over the crabbed characters and flourishing tropes of an Indian scribe, my eyes filled again.
6 The Yankee merchants were crabbed; and Ole Jenson, Ludelmeyer, and Gus Dahl, from the "Old Country," wished to be taken for Yankees.
7 But Godfrey was the heir to this crabbed old nobleman, and it was quite certain that the news of his marriage would have been the end of his inheritance.
The Return of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan DoyleContext Highlight In XI. THE ADVENTURE OF THE MISSING THREE-QUARTER 8 Sea fowls are pecking at the small crabs, shell-fish, and other sea candies and maccaroni, which the Right Whale sometimes carries on his pestilent back.
Moby Dick By Herman MelvilleContext Highlight In CHAPTER 56. Of the Less Erroneous Pictures of Whales, and... 9 The crabs hung on the branches as thick as beads on a string, purple-red, with a thin silvery glaze over them.
10 One of them began to kick and talk about a basket full of crabs.
11 There stood fine hyacinths under glass bells, and there stood strong-stemmed peonies; there grew water plants, some so fresh, others half sick, the water-snakes lay down on them, and black crabs pinched their stalks.
Andersen's Fairy Tales By Hans Christian AndersenContext Highlight In THE STORY OF A MOTHER 12 Then I stopped once more, for the crawling multitude of crabs had disappeared, and the red beach, save for its livid green liverworts and lichens, seemed lifeless.
13 'Which is a pity, for you might appen a' bin a good apple, 'stead of a handsome crab.'
14 The building was of grey, lichen-blotched stone, with a high central portion and two curving wings, like the claws of a crab, thrown out on each side.
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan DoyleContext Highlight In VIII. THE ADVENTURE OF THE SPECKLED BAND 15 With a frightful qualm, I turned, and I saw that I had grasped the antenna of another monster crab that stood just behind me.