crabby

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The earliest crabs were very different from those alive today, and their appearance was “mostly something in between lobstery-looking and crabby-looking,” Luque says.

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When I was a Catholic school kid in the late 1960s and early ’70s, many of my teachers were joyful Franciscans, not the crabby, knuckle-rapping ones of earlier decades.

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There comes a time when a woman has to make up her mind to choose between being called a 'dear old soul' or a 'crabby old thing.'

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Persius is crabby, because ancient, and his jerks (being particularly given to private customs of his time) dusky.

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I entertained myself with keeping her to the subject, and that made her crabby.

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Time was getting short, and it was no use wasting time on my crabby landlady.

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Accordingly the Hermit exerted himself to please, and it would really have taken more than three crabby boys to resist him.

A LITTLE BUSH MAIDMARY GRANT BRUCE

Let us go downstairs after old Crabby is to bed and play some trick on him.