Under the toad stool Sound asleep, Sat a big Dormouse All in a heap.
Sudden the wee Elf Smiled a wee smile; Tugged till the toad stool Toppled in two; Holding it over him, Gayly he flew.
He'd read somewhere that an able-bodied toad would eat seven million, three hundred and eighty thousand, nine hundred and thirty-three bugs a year.
All I'm wondering now is where the toad keeps his tongue when he's not using it!
You say the toad was a yard distant from the fly when the--when the shot was fired?
Fuller crawled into bed one night and found a toad there ahead of him and told the hall master the next day.
But two or three days afterward an old toad knocked at the hollow tree and said he had a message for Mrs. Duck.
Toad Todson flew into a towering rage and croaked at her till he was fairly hoarse.
Toad Todson for the angry croaking at his wife that his eyes fairly glowered at him.
It spoiled the effect somewhat to lose her clear high soprano, but Mr. Tree Toad Todson filled in with his penetrating tenor, and it was rumored that the Composition would be a great success.
Greenie was humming over mournfully to himself the song which Mr. Tree Toad Todson had composed in memory of his cousin Toadie Todson--A Lament.
Toad Todson (In memory of Toadie Todson) Sung by T.
Peace was soon restored, however, as Mr. Tree Toad Todson, very much of a gentleman at heart, was most anxious to ask pardon for this display of temper.
Mr. Tree Toad Todson had leased this toad-stool for the summer season from his first cousin, the unfortunate Toadie Todson.
My tree-toad in the grapevine over the bulkhead door!
You might take the white-faced hornet that builds the big paper nests in the trees; or the mud wasp, or the toad under the steps, or the swifts in the chimney, or the swallows in the barn.
Then the Toad understood, for he said: "Ho-ho, I understand that you cannot speak.
That Toad thought that he owned the pools because he bathed there every springtime, and though it was a kind little Dragon, the Toad hated him, and began to plot against him.
That made the Toad madder than ever, for he thought it meant that the Dragon was claiming the whole stream.
The Dragon looked puzzled, and theToad said, "Have you?
Some call it Toad Flax, and some call it Butter and Eggs, but we who know how it happened call it the Dragon and the Poached Egg.
So the Toad said: "See, Dragon, there is a wonderful food that you have never tasted, that is a poached egg.
Had the Toad not existed, the Frog would appear to us as an animal of a curious form, and would interest us by the phenomena of transformation which it undergoes in the different epochs of its development.
Nevertheless, the injurious species are exceptional amongst reptiles, and there are not any amongst the Batrachians, for it is altogether a mistake to take for venom the fluid which the toad discharges.
One has often been disagreeably surprised on raising some great stone to discover a Toad cowering against the earth, frightful to see, but timorous, seeking to avoid the notice of strangers.
Toads, Bufo, are squat and disagreeable in shape: it is difficult to comprehend why nature, which has bestowed elegance and a kind of grace upon Frogs and Tree Frogs, has stamped the Toad with so repulsive a form.
The alleged Venemous character of the Common Toad has been altogether rejected by many naturalists; but Dr.
At first she hardly dared sing with Tommy Tree Toad, because she was afraid of Billy Bull Frog, and then, too, she didn't know Tommy Tree Toad very well.
The toad had not only the nightingale's eyes; he had, during those early spring months, the other gift of the nightingale as well.
But did the frog ever contribute to the happiness of the world as the toad had been doing but a few weeks earlier?
And Arthur said, "Chris thinks I haven't read him the right story to his Toad Picture.
The toad in the picture was exactly like Christopher's toad, and he ran about the house with the book in his arms begging us to read him the story about Dear Toady.
He felt for a moment that he was the only living thing in a world of dead machines; the toad hopping across the road in front of a steam roller.
A toad hopping across a road in front of a steam roller.
The older people were enjoying the magnificent view; but Bab and Lucy were looking for the two toads who had been seen going up to the castle together, the well toad taking the lame toad's foot in his mouth.
Did you hear him tell of sitting up there one day and seeing a little toad help another toad--a lame one--up the trunk of the tree?
Perhaps it had, and perhaps it had been guided in its descent by that man who dealt with supernatural things in the cottage which squatted like a toad amongst the heather.
In its greyness it resembled a huge toad squatting amongst the heather.
Besides, the toad is a very sociable animal, and readily becomes the companion and the friend of man.
When once the toad has pledged his faith to a spouse, not only does he exhibit toward her a romantic fidelity, but he, moreover, protects her at the peril, and often even at the sacrifice of his life.
This toadlived thirty-six years, and then was the victim of an accident.
A toad hopped out from the line and came so close to Bobby that he could have touched her but for the strange spell which held him fast.
As for what we do when we are grown up, modesty forbids me to praise the frogs, but you know what a toad is worth to mankind?
It has about it a liquid that might cause pain to a cut finger or a sensitive tissue like that of the mouth or eye, but the old story that a toad is poisonous is a silly fable.
Then the toad near Bobby's ear spoke timidly: "I think you are a little unjust, Professor.
Armored species included one that looked like a horned toad the size of a dump truck.
But the best thing to do is set a toad to catch the bugs.
If you do not, you must build a tight fence round the plants, which the toad can not jump over.
The toad at once establishes the most intimate relations with the bug.
The difficulty is to make the toad stay and watch the hill.
During a hot summer day a toad likes to rest in the shade.
The toad deserves very kind treatment from all of us.
The male of the common land toad rolls the long chaplet of eggs about his feet as soon as it is divided, and goes in the evening to place it in the neighbouring pool.
On the reception of a convert, a toadmade its appearance, which was adored by the assembled crowd.
And this deponent further saith, that after the burning of the said toad her child recovered and was well again, and was living at the time of the Assizes.
This curiousToad is found in Guiana; it frequents the dark corners of the houses, and, notwithstanding its intense ugliness, is eaten by the natives.
A living Toad was found in a block of marble at Chillingham Castle, belonging to Lord Tankerville, near Alnwick, in Northumberland.
Hubert, professor of philosophy at Caen, was witness to a living Toad being taken from the solid trunk of an elm-tree.
It is an error to suppose the Toad to be a noxious and venomous animal; it is as harmless as the frog, and, like some of the human kind, only labours under the stigma of undeserved calumny.
When each of the pits has received its egg, the orifice becomes closed by a sort of lid, and the young animal goes through all its changes from the tadpole to the perfect Toad in this rather confined space.
In the year 1733, a live Toad was discovered by M.
THIS extraordinary fish is occasionally met with on our coasts, and is commonly known by the names of the Fishing Frog, Toad Fish, and Sea Devil.
Somewhat like the frog in the body, it also resembles that animal in its habits; but the frog leaps, while the Toad crawls.
Bradley saw a Toad taken from the trunk of a large oak.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "toad" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
