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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.

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

If during his infancy he has seen without fear frogs, serpents, crawfishes, he will, when grown up, see without shrinking any animal that may be shown him.

From Émile or, Concerning Education; Extracts by Steeg, Jules

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

From An Elementary Study of Insects by Haseman, Leonard

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.

From The Cords of Vanity A Comedy of Shirking by Cabell, James Branch

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

From The Escape of Mr. Trimm His Plight and other Plights by Cobb, Irvin S. (Irvin Shrewsbury)