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1. and daring September’s spiny little teeth to bite if they could
2. The fish were spiny and colorful, but adorned with prehensile tails and a row of three eyes on each side of their head where a normal fish would have gills
3. Local marine delights to admire are drum fish, octopus, starfish, golden moray eels and spiny lobsters
4. Her form resembled that of a spiny sea urchin and when disturbed, she extended her spines, which ejected a noxious, slimy substance that usually discouraged contact
5. was the same spiny peninsula that I’d chosen as an ideal means of
6. That’s right! Spiny mice are equipped with stiffened guard hairs that resemble the spines of a hedgehog… although not quite as dense
7. You can see them pretty well on this one’s back if you enlarge the photo here (this is the Cairo spiny mouse, Acomys cahirinus)
8. Now, say this ten times fast: spiny mice, spiny mice, spiny mice!
9. The robots jump to the roof of the tunnel and grab on with their spiked, spiny legs and disappear through the top opening
10. Nettles and spiny bushes blanketed most of the surrounding areas
11. As Stephi dropped the handbrake a bird’s head popped out from behind a spiny
12. Plants like roses, holly and hawthorn have spiny leaves and thorny stems are great deterrents because they can produce punctures and tear at the skin
13. By mid-afternoon, the grassland had given way to rocky foothills with sparse spiny plants and loose rocks that caused frequent trips and slips
14. the meat thin then marinate it in lime juice and cook it over a mesquite fire, a small spiny leguminous tree or bush with hard wood, the pods of which are sometimes used as fodder
15. The trail, if you could call it a trail, was peppered with dead creosote bushes, tumbleweeds and spiny little cactus that barely looked alive
16. Among these exhibits I'll mention, just for the record: an elegant royal hammer shell from the Indian Ocean, whose evenly spaced white spots stood out sharply against a base of red and brown; an imperial spiny oyster, brightly colored, bristling with thorns, a specimen rare to European museums, whose value I estimated at ₣20,000; a common hammer shell from the seas near Queensland, very hard to come by; exotic cockles from Senegal, fragile white bivalve shells that a single breath could pop like a soap bubble; several varieties of watering–pot shell from Java, a sort of limestone tube fringed with leafy folds and much fought over by collectors; a whole series of top–shell snails—greenish yellow ones fished up from American seas, others colored reddish brown that patronize the waters off Queensland, the former coming from the Gulf of Mexico and notable for their overlapping shells, the latter some sun–carrier shells found in the southernmost seas, finally and rarest of all, the magnificent spurred–star shell from New Zealand; then some wonderful peppery–furrow shells; several valuable species of cythera clams and venus clams; the trellis wentletrap snail from Tranquebar on India's eastern shore; a marbled turban snail gleaming with mother–of–pearl; green
17. Among the Macrura (which are subdivided into five families: hardshells, burrowers, crayfish, prawns, and ghost crabs) Conseil mentions some common spiny lobsters whose females supply a meat highly prized, slipper lobsters or common shrimp, waterside gebia shrimp, and all sorts of edible species, but he says nothing of the crayfish subdivision that includes the true lobster, because spiny lobsters are the only type in the Mediterranean
18. Finally, among the Anomura, he saw common drocina crabs dwelling inside whatever abandoned seashells they could take over, homola crabs with spiny fronts, hermit crabs, hairy porcelain crabs, etc
19. So tall were the spiny thickets that the hobbits could walk upright under them, passing through long dry aisles carpeted with a deep prickly mould
20. Large spines—and some spiny catfish grow as large as a man—are as effective as stilettos