crab-fish

Pamela as she takes the jewel in the figure of a crab-fish to signify “because it looks one way and goes another” that though he pretended to love Mopsa his heart was

The Common Reader, Second Series 2004

The Father, falling on his knees, took his crucifix, after which the crab-fish returned into the sea.

Notes and Queries, Number 05, December 1, 1849 Various

I saw the crab-fish come directly to the Father, by whose side I was, and stopped before him.

The Works of John Dryden Dryden, John, 1631-1700 1808

The Father, falling on his knees, took his crucifix, after which the crab-fish returned into the sea.

The Works of John Dryden Dryden, John, 1631-1700 1808

This cretaceous matter is formed by a mucous secretion from the skin of the fish, as is seen in crab-fish, and others which annually cast their shells, and is at first a soft mucous covering, (like that of a hen's egg, when it is laid a day or two too soon,) and which gradually hardens.

The Botanic Garden A Poem in Two Parts. Part 1: the Economy of Vegetation Erasmus Darwin 1766

These changes I conceive to be formed not by elongation or distention of primeval stamina, but by apposition of parts; as the mature crab-fish, when deprived of a limb, in a certain space of time has power to regenerate it; and the tadpole puts forth its feet long after its exclusion from the spawn; and the caterpillar in changing into a butterfly acquires a new form, with new powers, new sensations, and new desires.

Zoonomia, Vol. I Or, the Laws of Organic Life Erasmus Darwin 1766

I saw the crab-fish come directly to the Father, by whose side I was, and stopped before him.

The works of John Dryden, $c now first collected in eighteen volumes. $p Volume 16 John Dryden 1665

The Father, falling on his knees, took his crucifix, after which the crab-fish returned into the sea.

The works of John Dryden, $c now first collected in eighteen volumes. $p Volume 16 John Dryden 1665

Being on shore, Father Francis and I walked along by the sea side, towards the town of Tamalo, and had already walked about 500 paces, when both of us beheld, arising out of the sea, a crab-fish, which carried betwixt his claws the same crucifix raised on high.

The works of John Dryden, $c now first collected in eighteen volumes. $p Volume 16 John Dryden 1665

He has now left it, but perhaps the old crab-fish of a landlady may know something of him.”

Saint Ronan's Well 2008