Old Busio uttered a long, croaking wail, and went down on his knees beside the master he had served so long--the master who would never more need servant in this world.
Again the croaking creature stood and gloated over his victim, then left him to the silence of another long day in the dungeon.
Sounds stood out from the background making a bridge across their silence; they heard the swish of the trees and some beast croaking in a remote world.
And she watched him walk away, with his calm, firm step, and disappear in the darkness of his garden, where the enchantment must be creeping in through the croaking of the frogs.
Through the imperious bellowing of the frogs for rain and rain and more rain still, the constant croaking on the one bellowing note, she heard thousands of ghostly sounds that kept her from sleeping.
The croaking from a multitude of frogs which they contained, in addition to the noise of their drum, produced so animating an effect on their carriers, that they ran along with their burdens doubly as quick as they did before.
He soon after heard thecroaking of frogs, and following the sound arrived at some shallow muddy pools, where he and his horse quenched their thirst.
Far more congenial, I should think, the cooing of doves than the croaking of ravens, to the ears of an Ionian!
Hannibal ventured to ask whether some provisions were not to be had, and in an instant Hanno went to the door and uttered a few syllables that sounded something like the croakingof an old crow.
After the sun went down in the west it grew colder still, and all the Frogs in the marsh began to croak to the moon, croaking so loudly that the tired little travellers could not sleep at all.
When the Frogs stopped croaking and went to sleep in the mud, one tired Cricket said: "If you like this, stay.
But he ca'ant," said a croaking voice in the doorway, and turning round we saw Deborah Teague.
But at last he was before the bishop; that strong, queer voice was croaking across the desk; and all at once the croak ended, and the voice rang like a sovereign with words of refined gold.
The man himself could hear it croaking in his breast, where it commanded the pass to his stomach, and intercepted every morsel that he swallowed.
I'm Philip Mardykes; and another fellow would make a row about it, and claim his name and his rights, as she is always croaking in my ear I ought.
It was ice cold; my clammy hands could scarcely hold the reins, and I did not wonder that the croaking and cackling crows and gulls were always letting themselves be swept inland by the storm.
If only a breeze sprung up, it went through the marrow of his bones, and if only the screech-owl cried afar off, he thought he heard the croaking of the creature, and the blood froze in his veins.
Towards evening the voice of the raven was heard croaking on the summit of the pine-tree, and the tortured girl hurried out to inquire what news he brought.
While he was wondering whether he should knock and demand shelter for the night, he heard a great croaking of frogs in a ditch behind the house.
A little later, as they sat down to supper, some frogs in a neighbouring pond set up such a croaking as had never been heard.
Four frogs were throwing a small bottle about from one to the other, making a great croaking as they did so.
Odin came, and on his shoulders sat his two ravens, whose croaking drew clouds down over the Asa's face, for Thought and Memory sang the same sad song that day.
But Siegfried, the naughty Prince, only laughed at the little Nibelung's frightened face and harsh, croaking voice.
He always talks about the Moors of Granada when he is mad with majoon or aguardiente," interrupted, in bad French, the old man whom I have before described, and in the same croaking voice which I had heard chanting in the morning.
As I passed by, one of them, with a harsh, croaking voice, commenced cursing all foreigners.
No sound interrupted the stillness of the night, except the slow tramp of the horses' hoofs, and occasionally the croaking of frogs from some pool or morass.
Damn you, Gandil, I've borne with you and your croakingtoo long, d'ye hear?
You've been croaking for six years, Morgan, about the bad luck that would come to Jim from saving me out of the snow.
A dismal croaking in the tree-tops attracted me, and I came over cautiously to see what my herons were doing.
Two got away safely; the other had barely spread his wings when a black animal leaped out of the grass for his neck and pulled him down, flapping and croaking desperately.
I had seen a great blue heron sail croaking, croaking, into an arm of the big pond where I was catching bullpouts, and crept down through dense woods to find out what he was croaking about.
Once, when drifting over the beaver pond through the delicate witchery of the moonlight, I heard five or six of the great birds croaking excitedly at the heronry, which they had deserted weeks before.
A groundman has turned the propeller and in the calm of the night nothing can be heard but the chirping of the crickets and the croaking of the frogs which are telling of their loves from the ditches.
About us rose the strident croaking of the frogs and a toad modulated its harmonious whistle.
Sometimes he would listen solemnly for several minutes and then laugh his harsh croaking laugh.
Then, catching sight of Chicken Little, he hopped feebly toward her, croaking hoarsely: "Bust my buttons.
The afternoon silence was interrupted by the hoarse cry of innumerable frogs croakingin the marshes and the chattering of birds which fluttered in the olive trees near the fane of Aphrodite.
But the news from Orkney, Bryce, instead of croaking about a capful of wind?
And so, getting up from his seat, he began to walk up and down the sloop, croaking out his long and disastrous ballad.
The harsh, croaking voice was heard again, speaking angrily, and there were several interchanges of question and answer, as if between two men who did not quite understand each other's dialect.
