Layered with countless motifs from Albanian folklore involving betrayal, incest, shame and horror, as well as tragic themes from Plato, Virgil and Cervantes, this section of the narrative is a "crabwise" unfolding of their last 40 days, compiled by a researcher whose own obsession with the case is never explained, but who is ultimately confounded by the unanswerable question: "What right have we got in this pitch-black night to ask about things that are beyond our powers to see?" ❋ Unknown (2010)
But the crabwise trajectory of their investigation suggests that the quest is just a framework on which to hang Schacht's energetic soliloquies. ❋ Michael Lindgren (2010)
I wouldn't say that that evening was born a lifelong passion for theatre – it's been a slow, crabwise journey to get there – but it did do something. ❋ Unknown (2010)
Metre-high players scuttle crabwise across the pitch. ❋ Unknown (2010)
The horse had run backwards, cantered crabwise, turned in circles, ignored every instruction and used his vast muscle power to make a fool of the slight man on his back. ❋ Josh Spilker (2010)
With a sharp pull and a crabwise motion, it was possible to open the door and pass through it. ❋ Unknown (2010)
He ducked his head beneath his tunic, turning his face against the wall, and crept, crabwise and even more slowly, up the stairs. ❋ Michael J. Solender (2010)
The little homestead was on the move, inching crabwise across the Pilliga. ❋ Roger Deakin (2009)
That was a while ago, and he can't walk these days unless he clings to furniture and creeps along crabwise, so I'm hoping he'll have better luck getting the equipment in Reno. ❋ Susan Palwick (2008)
Yet the political parody seldom catches fire, and the story stops dead in its crabwise tracks for some frantic nonsense in which a greedy landlord turns predatory developer, and Mariah Carey plays herself with agonizing difficulty. ❋ Unknown (2008)
I broke into a lurching, crabwise run, pounding the sidewalk with my red crutch. ❋ King, Stephen, 1947- (2008)
John was okay during the previews, but just as the Warner Bros logo was coming on, he stood up, slid past Blaze, and started up the aisle in a crabwise walk. ❋ Bachman, Richard (2007)
Composure vanished at the first pitch: Peter hollered joyously, Magda tumbled, shrieked, clutched her skirt; Ambrose scrambled crabwise, tight-lipped with terror, was soon out, watched his dropped name-coin slide among the couples. ❋ Mark Jude Poirier (2007)
My progress is crabwise, and I fear only IX. chapters will be ready for the mail. ❋ Unknown (2005)
“Oh — well — gee — of course —” sighed Graff, as he went out, crabwise. ❋ Unknown (2004)
A trail of moisture marked the path by which he must have scooted crabwise across the floor, en route to the corner. ❋ Unknown (2004)
Bob moved crabwise at his [shortstop] position, and [kept] his eyes [on the batter]. ❋ Talk2me-JCH2 (2022)
If I ever meet [Cassie Brown], I'm going to [hit that] [shitt] crabwise. ❋ Ocjacob (2018)
