When fully developed, frogs have a short, tailless body, a large head, and four legs, the toes being frequently joined together by a membrane.
Jupiter accordingly threw down a log among them, which made a satisfactory ruler till the frogs recovered from their fright and discovered his real nature.
In this country the commoner species of frogs embrace the BULL FROG (R.
The tree-frogs show various interesting adaptations to their arboreal life.
Toads are distinguished from frogs by the absence of teeth, by the roughness of the skin, by peculiarities in the breastbone, and by the shorter hind-legs.
Oh no; I presume you were once a tadpole; all frogs are at first.
The sound now was identical with the short cough or growl of a hungry lion, and though I have heard the frogs many times since that night, this resemblance never changed or weakened.
I forget bed-time; but even there these sociablefrogs clamber up to annoy me.
I knew no other living animal or creeping thing, so closely resembling these frogs in repulsiveness, as a Romish priest or bishop who hears confessions.
Never hopped frogs into a ditch with more alacrity.
Curse your ladylike stomachs; you ain't fit for a ship; why don't ye go ashore and man a gingerbread coach and feed off French frogs and Italian baccy-pipe stems?
It matters not how green the grass is lifting through the mold, How strong the sap is climbing out to every naked bough, That in the towns the market-stalls are bright with jonquil gold, And over marsh and meadowland the frogs are fluting now.
What he saw inside no one can guess, as the grass is kept short; and except in one corner far, far away from the gate, there were not half the fine fat frogs that Mr. Adjutant might have found on his own side of the gate.
Frogs abound in this grass, and crickets come out of holes in the ground, and make a terrible whistling at night.
THE stork who worms and frogs devours That in our ponds reside, Why should he dwell on high church-towers, With which he's not allied?
Tree-frogs were snarling, fireflies were flashing here and there over the dewy meadows like tiny, short-lived meteors.
Because some of the buttercups grow where frogs abound, Pliny bestowed the Latin name Ranunculus, meaning "little frog.
Of a great stagnant lake that must have held the subtlest frogs that ever were, and was surrounded with dark unreflected trees, and sleeping fleurs de luce.
As the night grew later, the frogs hummed faster, but hum as fast as they would, they could not keep up with the frisky vegetables.
When they reached the dancing-floor it was lighted with millions and millions of glowworms, and an orchestra of ten thousand frogs hummed lively tunes in their throats.
In the hall of the Corinthians the writer and his friends examine the sacred palm tree of bronze, and "the snakes and frogs in relief round the root of the tree".
The snake, like the other animals, frogs and lizards, in Andaman, Australian and Iroquois myth, had swallowed the waters before its murder.
Why," said they, "the palm tree is not a marsh plant, and frogs are not a Corinthian crest.
Ferrar helped to carry him down the hill, and the other Frogs followed.
It was reported that there had been a fight with the Frogs on Malvern Hill, during which King had been pitched over.
So that handkerchief was not much thought of: especially as several of the Frogs had green neckerchiefs on, and might have taken them off, as it was very hot.
The Frogs had the blazing sun in their eyes; our side had it at their backs--which was against the Frogs.
One of the smallest of those Frogs couldn't show out more silly than this.
A fewFrogs were about the hills, but they did not come in contact with us.
Thought the whole boiling of Frogs should be driven from the town--how dared they, the insolent charity beggars, have their school near the college school?
The Teals kept laughing at it, which made Dan savage; once he burst out in a passion, wishing all the Frogs were shot.
The paths there are narrow, you know, and we expected to have all the string of Frogs sweeping past us, their coats brushing our jackets.
For some of the Frogs had taken up the notion that it must have been he--why else, they asked, did the coroner and the rest of 'em want to see his green handkercher shook out?
One vanload ofFrogs had started; the other was getting ready to start.
The Frogs showed themselves good-natured; and went tearing up towards the hill to look for King.
On one fief they were expected to beat the water of the castle moat to stop the noise of the frogs whenever the mistress was sick.
Young Francois and Anseau have wearied of hunting frogs beside the outer moat.
So marked was this preference, that the song of the male heard from the woods indicated to us as surely the proximity of some river, pond, or flooded swamp, as did the croaking of frogs or the peep of the Hylas.
At that same moment ten thousand frogs started from the morions of Gog and Magog, and furiously assailed the knight on every side.
The Devil told them to remember and keep their word and then stamped his foot, and the frogs disappeared instantly into the earth.
Christians are like a council of frogs in a marsh or a synod of worms on a dung hill croaking and squeaking, "For our sakes was the world created.
With the exception of this passage, which is a purely symbolical one, there is no mention of Frogs in the New Testament.
Frogs and small fishes are the usual food of the Heron, though it often grapples with larger prey, having been seen to capture an eel of considerable size in its beak.
Frogs appear to be its favourite diet, but it also feeds on various fish, insects, molluscs, worms, and similar creatures.
And I saw three unclean spirits like frogs come out of the mouth of the dragon, and out of the mouth of the beast, and out of the mouth of the false prophet.
These pretty birds much resemble the heron in general form, and in general habits both birds are very much alike, haunting the marshes and edges of lakes and streams, and feeding upon the frogs and other inhabitants of the water.
Thus the multitudes of the Frogs which invaded the Egyptians was no matter of wonder, the only miraculous element being that the reptiles were simultaneously directed to the houses, and their simultaneous death when the plague was taken away.
Nor need we fancy that the frogs which rendered their habitations unclean, and contaminated their food, were brought into existence simply to inflict a severe punishment on the fastidious and superstitious Egyptians.
Probably the Frogs and Toads were all classed together under the same title.
I was very proud of my beautiful tail, and imagined that all the frogs were dying with envy because they had lost theirs.
The caterwauling melody was sweet music compared with the noise made by the frogs in a pond hard by.
I lay and listened to the frogs until my eyes began to feel heavy; and just as I was about to fall asleep in spite of the frog convention, a mosquito concluded to make his supper off of my nose.
If frogs were worth a dollar a head, I am confident that there were enough in that pond to pay the national debt, not counting the old ones that had retired from business.
Then it was a natural consequence that I should dream of duels, Tom-cats, and frogs, especially when it is remembered that the cats and frogs had conspired to keep me awake, and when in spite of them I did fall asleep.
I was very much alarmed when I saw a large number of frogs collecting round the one whose nose I had so imprudently slapped with my tail.
Most of the water people, like the frogs and newts, take no bother at all about their eggs, but just leave them to themselves without ever caring whether they hatch or no.
It is at this time of the year that the frogs do their croaking.
Big frogs lie about in the shallows, and flop off into the deeper parts of the pond, as soon as our shadows are thrown across the water.
They grow up from eggs, just like tadpoles, only instead of losing their tails and changing into frogs they keep their tails to swim with, and remain newts.
When we hear the frogs croaking we do not think how loud they are, but only how silent is everything-else.
When he could not catch deer or monkeys he would eat frogs and beetles; and when he could not catch frogs and beetles he went to his Mother Jaguar, and she told him how to eat hedgehogs and tortoises.
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