I think you will croak sorrowfully enough before long.
The air was filled with the croak of frogs and the chirp of crickets, and from the river came the creak of the sculls and paddles of a cumbrous barge that was working its way down the Tiber.
In the damp south corners of the walls a frog began to croak at exact intervals.
There is nothing of civilisation in the hoarse croak of the great blue heron.
His voice is as distinctive of the marsh as is the croak of the frog, and from a distance it is one of the first sounds to greet the ear.
A world without the song of birds is greatly lacking--such is a desert, where even the harsh croak of a raven is melody.
Why don't you croak him off before this night's over?
And if you'd let me croakthis devil like I wanted to, it wouldn't have happened either.
Each vaulted soul and spiral thought, Swirl in the throes of waters cold; Where rivers with the venom crawls, Croak bat-faced incubi till hoarse.
Affrighted at this fearful gaze As coals blaze like twinkling jewels, Night-hawks that croak at bat-faced owls Gledge at each gnome that digged a bone From some bleak pool, and pierce the haze Where censers blaze.
No one would engage her, she was washed up everywhere; and this secretly suited her, for she had fallen to that state of indifference when one prefers to croak rather than move one's fingers.
She was awaiting the time when she would be earning money, she would say, to treat him to brandy and make him croak quicker.
If you wanted to drink by yourself, you could croak by yourself.
One should lie down and croak when one's no longer able to work.
As the party broke up with a laugh at his expense, the quiet of nature once more reigned over the valley, broken only by the hoarse croak of the frogs in the dark pools and the shrill cry of the cicada in the grass.
From that day Derry turned his back on his master, he would never answer his call, and he did not know his whistle from the croak of a corn-crake.
Sometimes the croak of a frog came from the glen; and from the sea beyond (though seemingly from the mountains opposite) there rose into the air the rumble of the waves on the shore.
From time to time, one of them informs us of his thoughts by a "Couac," uttered in a deep bass croak infinitely more hollow than that of our own toads.
Lucky toads, who crawl andcroak on the finest of moss, in the midst of tiny artificial islets decked with gardenias in full bloom.
Puritans or no Puritans," said Sir Oliver, "I hope you don't mind the muddy race that croak these black lessons of duty.
He stepped quickly after her; but the door was already barred; and when he knocked and called to her, the hoarse croak of the raven was the sole reply.
Happy Jack gave a hoarse croak of triumph and fired, just as the fog-curtain swayed back maddeningly.
It was the familiar, protesting croak of Happy Jack.
Verty cocked his rifle, and uttered the low croak again.
If you croak me, she'll think I got it in a scrap, maybe; so if you wanter plug me, go ahead!
I ain't no real crook, but if you wanter croak me for what I done--go ahead!
Then the bird stepped a little way along his limb to get a better point of observation, lifted his wings, stuck his head far down below his shoulders toward me and croaked again--a croakwith a distinctly insulting expression about it.
When I had stood ten minutes, thinking and imagining, and getting my spirit in tune with the place, and in the right mood to enjoy the supernatural, a raven suddenly uttered a horse croak over my head.
The Turkey Vulture is a very silent bird, only uttering a hiss of defiance or warning to its neighbors when feeding, or a low gutteral croak of alarm when flying low overhead.
He is so persistent in his singing, however, that the Red-Breasted Merganser's simple croak would sometimes be preferable to it.
They could hear the frogs croak in the marais; it was dry, and the water was getting low.
Gabriel used to say he never heard a frog croak afterwards without a sinking of the heart.
A tendency to croak caused a certain roughness in his speech, but his voice was not disagreeable, and what he said, although conveying little enlightenment, did not sound rude.
I knew all the time that my thinking was foolish, and was even aware of a certain undertone of contemptuous humour in it; but suddenly it was checked, and I seemed again to hear the croak of the raven.
Ye must bestir yourselves, O Friends; ye dull Frogs of the Marsh, mute ever since Girondism sank under, even ye now must croakor die!
The hoarse croak of the Raven is one of the most familiar bird-notes heard among the Highlands.
You come here with your stories and croak and croak, and still not one of you would dare say a word to Pete's face, not one of you but would stand and let him twist your nose if he saw fit.
None of us ain't cats, so we can't croak but once--and that might as well be now as ten years from now.
Like a death knell comes the guttural croakof the Raven.
When one has seen this sort of thing a dozen times, and heard the wail of the wild things, the croak of the Raven comes to be fraught with menace, the veritable voice of doom.
