Now the hard-shelled criatin amphibians lumbered in.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Status Civilization] Reference

Or Science and some of our cursed hard-shelled data.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Book of the Damned] Reference

Tannian's Festung Canaan will be a hard-shelled nut.    From Wordnik.com.  [Passage at Arms]

It is a small, hard-shelled, rough-backed snout beetle.    From Wordnik.com.  [Northern Nut Growers Association Report of the Proceedings at the 43rd Annual Meeting Rockport, Indiana, August 25, 26 and 27, 1952] Reference

Scopate tomia: an adaptation for handling hard-shelled prey?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2006-05-01] Reference

Jon-Tom and his hard-shelled mentor regarded it thoughtfully.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Lives of Felix Gunderson] Reference

Finely ground fossils of diatoms, a type of hard-shelled algae.    From Wordnik.com.  [Natural Ingredients] Reference

His blue-green, hard-shelled fingers shuffled within the projection.    From Wordnik.com.  [Dirge]

'Oh now, you are unnecessarily pessimistic, my hard-shelled rafiki.'.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Tar-Aiym Krang]

They were much appreciated by the hard-shelled denizens of those lands.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Corridor in the Asylum] Reference

In the land of hard-shelled tacos and tortilla chips, I made soft food.    From Wordnik.com.  [June 2007] Reference

The hard-shelled ones had the tough white meat inside but not much milk.    From Wordnik.com.  [Across The Sea Of Suns]

Like all his kind, Preed loathed the multilimbed, hard-shelled creatures.    From Wordnik.com.  [Diuturnity's Dawn]

Every one is acquainted with the hard-shelled, triangular fruit called the.    From Wordnik.com.  [Scientific American Supplement, No. 598, June 18, 1887] Reference

For anchoring the hard-shelled multitude that pulled us out of the valley.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Triumph of Souls]

This is a very hard-shelled nut, very oily and resembles somewhat the Brazil nut.    From Wordnik.com.  [Northern Nut Growers Association Report of the Proceedings at the Eleventh Annual Meeting Washington, D. C. October 7 and 8, 1920] Reference

My flying squirrels were given soft feed in place of the usual hard-shelled nuts.    From Wordnik.com.  [Outdoor Sports and Games] Reference

Despite the appalling conditions, his hard-shelled counterpart rarely complained.    From Wordnik.com.  [Diuturnity's Dawn]

Boil the desired number of hard-shelled crabs and remove the meat from the shells.    From Wordnik.com.  [Woman's Institute Library of Cookery Volume 3: Soup; Meat; Poultry and Game; Fish and Shell Fish] Reference

Your hard-shelled men tor believes it to travel much of the way through the mow tains.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Hour of the Gate]

And of course the hard-shelled version of your namesake hails from the Chesapeake Bay!.    From Wordnik.com.  [literary manhattan] Reference

When Scappaticci was released, three years later, he had become a hard-shelled IRA man.    From Wordnik.com.  [Double Blind] Reference

This hard-shelled, high-calorie nut native to Australia is also called the Queensland Nut.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript May 12, 2005] Reference

Each stiff, hard-shelled arm ended in four-pronged pincers, which looked sharp and clumsy.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Call to Arms]

And the pulpy, hard-shelled plants that you can still find, alive, if you know where to look.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Planet Strappers] Reference

They need to be shown as human, even if they're hard-shelled from what they have to do all day.    From Wordnik.com.  [My First Dead Body] Reference

He did not flinch, "do you also support the claims and statements of the small hard-shelled one?".    From Wordnik.com.  [The Hour of the Gate]

These are apparently specializations that assist in the holding of hard-shelled prey (Gosner 1993).    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2006-04-01] Reference

Since then I have found a few, good, hard-shelled almond trees growing and yielding well in the Lake Erie country.    From Wordnik.com.  [Northern Nut Growers Association Report of the Proceedings at the Fourteenth Annual Meeting Washington D.C. September 26, 27 and 28 1923] Reference

Before either soft-shelled or hard-shelled crabs can be used as food, a certain amount of preparation is necessary.    From Wordnik.com.  [Woman's Institute Library of Cookery Volume 3: Soup; Meat; Poultry and Game; Fish and Shell Fish] Reference

Variety in the cooking of hard-shelled crabs can be secured by deviling them according to the accompanying directions.    From Wordnik.com.  [Woman's Institute Library of Cookery Volume 3: Soup; Meat; Poultry and Game; Fish and Shell Fish] Reference

"Mercy! you're a hard-shelled old sinner!" she exclaimed, rubbing her bruised forehead and glaring at the offending fruit.    From Wordnik.com.  [At the Little Brown House] Reference

In the case of hard-shelled crabs, plunge them alive into hot water, allow them to come to the boiling point, and cook slowly for.    From Wordnik.com.  [Woman's Institute Library of Cookery Volume 3: Soup; Meat; Poultry and Game; Fish and Shell Fish] Reference

One of the first pieces of foreign work I was asked to do for the government was to get and import the hard-shelled almonds of Spain.    From Wordnik.com.  [Northern Nut Growers Association Report of the Proceedings at the Eleventh Annual Meeting Washington, D. C. October 7 and 8, 1920] Reference

Weevils and curculios are small, hard-shelled, grayish to brown beetles about 1/4 to 1/2 inch long, with stiff, slender snouts or beaks.    From Wordnik.com.  [Northern Nut Growers Association Report of the Proceedings at the 43rd Annual Meeting Rockport, Indiana, August 25, 26 and 27, 1952] Reference

When the meat of hard-shelled crabs is creamed, it makes a very dainty dish, especially if it is served over toast or in timbale cases.    From Wordnik.com.  [Woman's Institute Library of Cookery Volume 3: Soup; Meat; Poultry and Game; Fish and Shell Fish] Reference

Here we have plainly indicated the little gourd-like, hard-shelled, and variegated squashes that are often cultivated as ornamental plants.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Field and Garden Vegetables of America Containing Full Descriptions of Nearly Eleven Hundred Species and Varietes; With Directions for Propagation, Culture and Use.] Reference