1 The walk revived her spirits, and flattering herself that she had made good bargains, she trudged home again, after buying a very young lobster, some very old asparagus, and two boxes of acid strawberries.
2 The lobster was a scarlet mystery to her, but she hammered and poked till it was unshelled and its meager proportions concealed in a grove of lettuce leaves.
3 "Then I must have a lobster, for tongue alone won't do," said Amy decidedly.
4 The lobster was instantly surrounded by a halo of pleasing reminiscences, and curiosity about 'the charming young ladies' diverted his mind from the comical mishap.'
5 Lobsters, fresh from the lobster pots.
6 Some of them might just as well have a hundred legs, like a centipede, or six, like a lobster.
7 So you see, we are deep-sea monsters, and when the lobster walks on mud, he stirs it up for everybody.
8 He is as brave as a bulldog and as tenacious as a lobster if he gets his claws upon anyone.
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan DoyleContext Highlight In II. THE RED-HEADED LEAGUE 9 The supper consisted of a roast pheasant garnished with Corsican blackbirds; a boar's ham with jelly, a quarter of a kid with tartar sauce, a glorious turbot, and a gigantic lobster.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre DumasContext Highlight In Chapter 31. Italy: Sinbad the Sailor. 10 If we bought a lobster, it was full of water.
David Copperfield By Charles DickensContext Highlight In CHAPTER 44. OUR HOUSEKEEPING 11 Ferfitchkin flew out at me, turning as red as a lobster, and looking me in the face with fury.
12 We can do without lobsters, you know.
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland By Lewis CarrollContext Highlight In CHAPTER X. The Lobster Quadrille 13 The reason is,' said the Gryphon, 'that they WOULD go with the lobsters to the dance.
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland By Lewis CarrollContext Highlight In CHAPTER X. The Lobster Quadrille 14 "I can't get any lobsters, so you will have to do without salad today," said Mr. March, coming in half an hour later, with an expression of placid despair.
15 Mr. Peggotty, to relieve it, took two prodigious lobsters, and an enormous crab, and a large canvas bag of shrimps, out of his pockets, and piled them up in Ham's arms.
David Copperfield By Charles DickensContext Highlight In CHAPTER 7. MY 'FIRST HALF' AT SALEM HOUSE