C. granulatawas about 0.6 inches (15 millimeters) long and showed distinctive features to suggest it was a spider crab, including two diverging spines coming out of its rostrum (the extended portion of the carapace, or shell, in front of the eyes) and a somewhat pear-shaped carapace.
The scenes of Carey lying in the shell and in front of the flowers were inspired by Sandro Botticelli's painting The Birth of Venus.
There's again that gap between who knows and who doesn't, but it's more fragile and tangled by people thinking they know something even as they don't, and the who that knows or doesn't know keeps shifting around, so there's not an audience or chorus (or reader) that gets to rest as assured as they might once have that the non-knowing ball isn't under the shell right in front of them.
It is laid out like a huge shell in front of the implacable gothic presence of the Palazzo Comunale, which is topped by the 335ft Torre del Mangia – designed with the intention of making rival Florence feel inadequate.
As the Gaza conflict escalates, the world was shocked by the deaths of four young Palestinian boys, who were killed on a Gaza beach by Israeli shells in front of a group of international journalists.
Many Crepidula species deposit a mass of 5,000 to 20,000 eggs under the shell edge just in front of the female's foot, brooding them until they hatch as veligers.
Then, just as Worden peered out the pilothouse, a shell exploded in front of it, blinding him.
You'll see it as the mortar shells fall in front of your school and at the market, while the grenades explode in the cinema and as the air fighters drop bombs over the forests and villages.
"My wife Noor Jaan had just stepped out of the house to water the buffaloes when a shell fell in front of her.
Officers at the scene located at least three shell casings in front of the home.
