But the really, really lucky ones get a shell-less albino turtle covered in gills.    From Wordnik.com.  [What's Black & White & Wrecked All Over?] Reference

No longer shell-less and colorless, they had developed a kind of thick, grayish, shiny armor.    From Wordnik.com.  [Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire]

The skrewt was inches from him when it froze - he had managed to hit it on its fleshy, shell-less underside.    From Wordnik.com.  [Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire]

The shell-less albino gilled turtle is right up there with the majestic coiled craphound and oh, so many others!.    From Wordnik.com.  [What's Black & White & Wrecked All Over?] Reference

A recent applicant to the Warwickshire Appeal Tribunal claimed that he had captured the German shell-less egg trade.    From Wordnik.com.  [Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 153, December 5, 1917] Reference

The P, while having a more generous pulp and a shell-less kernel, has the disadvantage that it produces abortive fruit branches.    From Wordnik.com.  [Chapter 6] Reference

In the same way the hyphen sometimes ensures that two consonants shall be pronounced separately; as in "book-keeping," "shell-less,".    From Wordnik.com.  ["Stops", Or How to Punctuate A Practical Handbook for Writers and Students] Reference

I'll put my Jalapeno Crabcakes up against yours any day .... even without my dear, departed, shell-less, fleckless NW USA Dungeness.    From Wordnik.com.  [From My Cold, Dead Hands] Reference

Vetustovermis shows a similarity with shell-less sea slugs, which are gastropods that evolved from the shelled ancestors Yonge 1960.    From Wordnik.com.  [Down with phyla! (episode II) - The Panda's Thumb] Reference

They looked like deformed, shell-less lobsters, horribly pale and slimy-looking, with legs sticking out in very odd places and no visible heads.    From Wordnik.com.  [Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire]

I love many things, as my Twitter friends know all to well. nothing better than rummaging thru a bag of pistachios and finding one that's shell-less/i'm a salt-a-holic, i must confess.    From Wordnik.com.  [Eve Tahmincioglu: Would Donne Have Tweeted His Trysts?] Reference

Besides this triumph he has succeeded in obtaining a variety of this fruit having a shell-less kernel, so that the fruit when dried much resembles those which are artificially stuffed.    From Wordnik.com.  [History of California] Reference

Today’s oil palm seeds are produced by hybridisation between a thick shelled “dura” mother palm and a pollen parent with shell-less fruit, the “pisifera” type, which is often female-sterile.    From Wordnik.com.  [Chapter 6] Reference

I remember standing in a hall with more square footage then the Pentagon, detailing the history of a nontechnological race, a people who looked a little like vast shell-less oysters, slimy and featureless gray, who'd devoted a hundred thousand years to perfecting an art form that looked like nothing so much as boiling bacon grease.    From Wordnik.com.  [Asimov's Science Fiction]

The widely-cleft, shell-less test is supported upon a thick peduncle, which is immersed in the skin of the.    From Wordnik.com.  [Facts and Arguments for Darwin] Reference

At the lower end of the egg-duct there is secreted a limy liquid which covers the shell-less egg and hardens, making the shell.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Renewal of Life; How and When to Tell the Story to the Young] Reference

The shell-less egg is well known to most country children, as hens often lay one; and this will always happen where there is not lime enough in the food of the poultry.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Renewal of Life; How and When to Tell the Story to the Young] Reference

Again White says: "The shell-less snails called slugs are in motion all winter in mild weather and commit great depredations on garden plants, and much injure the green wheat.".    From Wordnik.com.  [An Island Garden] Reference

Another girlfriend took its shell. girlfriend will fight over desirable shells, also will sometimes "steal" a shell while the shell-less girlfriend was trying out another shell.    From Wordnik.com.  [reddit.com: what's new online!] Reference

At what date the gigantic cuttles of the present day first began to make their appearance it would be hard to say, for their shell-less bodies are so soft that they could leave hardly anything behind in a fossil state; but the largest known cuttle, measured by Mr. Gabriel, of.    From Wordnik.com.  [Falling in Love With Other Essays on More Exact Branches of Science] Reference

With property prices in and around Taipei seemingly on a never-ending upward spiral, a protest group known as the "alliance of shell-less snails" crawled back onto the political scene last week after a two-decade hiatus, threatening action should the government fail to tackle the issue.    From Wordnik.com.  [Taipei Times] Reference

But there might be such a thing as a man's soul being loose from his body, and going out and in, like a bird out of its nest and back; and that was how folks got over-wise, for they went to school in this shell-less state to those who could teach them more than their neighbors could learn with their five senses and the parson.    From Wordnik.com.  [Silas Marner (1885)] Reference

But there might be such a thing as a man's soul being loose from his body, and going out and in, like a bird out of its nest and back; and that was how folks got over-wise, for they went to school in this shell-less state to those who could teach them more than their neighbours could learn with their five senses and the parson.    From Wordnik.com.  [Silas Marner] Reference

The baroque seafood tacos were palatable (try the ones stuffed with sweet blue crab or chunks of lemony hamachi dressed with avocado), although a mad Burkian pasta creation called "soft-shell snails" (shell-less escargots, plus gummy pasta shells, plus too much garlic) was barely edible, even after I removed the slippery black snails.    From Wordnik.com. Reference

But I couldn’t go hunting for them now, all raw and … shell-less.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ancient, Strange, and Lovely] Reference

AN ISLAND GARDEN 63 speaks of these arch enemies of mine as "unnoticed myriads of small shell-less snails called slugs, which silently and imperceptibly make amazing havoc in field and garden;" adding in a note, "Farmer Young of Norton Farm says that this spring (1777) about four acres of his wheat in one field were entirely destroyed by the slugs, which swarmed on the blades of corn and devoured it as fast as it sprung.".    From Wordnik.com.  [An Island Garden] Reference

Photoshop...or shell-less turtle?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Information, Culture, Policy, Education: Monster washes ashore on Long Island] Reference

The albino shell-less turtle was priceless!.    From Wordnik.com.  [What's Black & White & Wrecked All Over?] Reference

I shot one specimen, a female, in April, near the Meplay river, that must have had a nest somewhere, which, however, I failed to find, for she had a full-formed but shell-less egg inside her. ".    From Wordnik.com.  [The Nests and Eggs of Indian Birds, Volume 1] Reference

For prey; the bat wakes; and the shell-less snail.    From Wordnik.com.  [Poems] Reference

All pasty-soft and shell-less.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ancient, Strange, and Lovely] Reference