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Example sentences for "toadstools"

Lexicographically close words:
toadflax; toadied; toadies; toads; toadstool; toady; toast; toasted; toaster; toasting
  1. In the opening were at least a hundred dragons devouring the toadstools with which the ground was covered.

  2. Every mushroom had disappeared, but the toadstools still remained.

  3. Walking along, they noticed on all sides tall lilies immaculately pure in their whiteness, and mushrooms and toadstools nearly a foot high, the former having a delicious flavour and extreme freshness, as though only an hour old.

  4. I wonder," said the doctor, "if there can be any connection between the phenomenon of the disappearance of those toadstools and the death of the birds?

  5. The puff-ball gives a visible salute, but any one of the common mushrooms or toadstools will afford us a much prettier and more surprising account of itself if we but give it the opportunity.

  6. Well, it wasn't long after that before it was dinner time, and the two friends sat down in a place where there were a lot of toadstools to eat their lunch.

  7. Taller and taller it grew, for toadstools grow very fast you know.

  8. Woe to the fungus epicure who should sample his mushrooms and toadstools on such a criterion as this, as the most fatal of all mushrooms, the Amanita vernus, would fulfil all these requisites.

  9. Well, toadstools or not, you see there about two pounds of delicious vegetable meat, for it is the common species of edible boletus--Boletus edulis.

  10. They also inoculate each other with or without contact, so that if edible and noxious toadstools are gathered together the former will absorb the properties of the latter.

  11. The Puff-ball gives a visible salute, but any one of the common mushrooms or toadstools will afford us a much prettier and more surprising account of itself if we but give it the opportunity.

  12. His first endeavor should be to ascertain the exact time elapsing between the eating of the toadstools and the first feeling of discomfort.

  13. The early authorities caution us to avoid all Boleti having any shade of red on the spore-bearing surface beneath, even as it was originally claimed that all red-capped toadstools were poisonous.

  14. Did he guess how toadstools grow, this fellow?

  15. There was this level space, and on it there were toadstools and milkweed, and there was food.

  16. His approach to the mingled mass of toadstools and lesser monstrosities grew slower.

  17. They climbed recklessly upon the flat tops of toadstools and waved their dimmer twinned lanterns at the flying males.

  18. But normally the humans hid in the mushroom-forests, sheltered by the toadstools which now grew to three man-heights.

  19. Poisonous toadstools are occasionally mistaken for mushrooms, especially by people not accustomed to gathering them.

  20. In Norway mushrooms are seldom seen, and are not eaten; but when I once found a few there and had them cooked at an inn, I was amused by the people of the inn, who went and collected toadstools and wanted me to eat them also.

  21. After a while things settle down, and then the carpenter, who is also an architect, can lay his bare arms across the bar and sell them to the highest bidder, for the houses are coming up like toadstools after rain.

  22. There were no toadstools there when I left them.

  23. An' I ain't sure, after all, as toadstools would be worth sittin' on.

  24. They were all silent for a time, Dorothy and the Wizard sitting thoughtfully on the raft, and Trot and Cap'n Bill sitting thoughtfully on the toadstools and growing gradually smaller and smaller in size.

  25. The walls were covered with damp mould an inch thick; spotted toadstools grew in the crevices of the stones, and festoons of decaying weeds hung from the roof.

  26. They generally have their banquets now in some meadow, and afterward you can tell the place of the feast by the circle of little toadstools called fairy rings.

  27. But to this day you can see the staircase of toadstools on the tree trunks where the Brownie went up.

  28. Along the road, in the midst of a beaten track, I saw mushrooms or toadstools which had sprung up probably during the night.

  29. A little while ago, mushrooms or toadstools were very numerous along the wood-paths and by the roadsides, especially after rain.

  30. Do we tear up the roots of the poisonous toadstool that killed someone we loved and leave the other toadstools thriving?

  31. To cure the world of all its ills by tearing up the toadstools and the flowers together--do you call that justice?

  32. Suddenly, as though it had rained down, a forest of big black toadstools appeared.

  33. The toadstools were having a chatty time together.

  34. Fiona's will let go with a snap; she felt so dizzy that she had to lean against one of the great toadstools or she would have fallen.

  35. This ring was of vast size, and round it grew in a circle huge red toadstools splotched with white, the red toadstools from which the witches of Lapland had used to brew philtres of love and death.

  36. The circle of scarlet toadstools was broken down and shattered, as though by a great storm; and the ring itself was no longer grass, but was covered deep in snow.

  37. The toadstools or poisonous mushrooms are named Bwyd Ellyllon, or Elves'-food.

  38. His whole duty performed, he picked the toadstools for his papa's Sunday dinner, and, leaning his head against the lone stump, cried himself to sleep.

  39. The toadstools looked like the ghosts of little past-and-gone fairy umbrellas in the darkness, and not a single fairy couple came to waltz under their snowy canopies, or exchange a furtive kiss beneath their friendly shadows.

  40. Bright colors on the cap also mean nothing; many gorgeous toadstools are wholesome food.

  41. Curtis There are thousands of different kinds of toadstools or mushrooms in the world; most of them are good to eat, yet all have a bad reputation, because some are deadly poisonous.

  42. Poisonous Toadstools Of all the poisonous kinds the deadliest are the Amanitas.

  43. She began arranging the contents of her basket on the step beside her--a gay assortment of toadstools gathered during her morning walk.

  44. All toadstools are mushrooms and all mushrooms are toadstools.

  45. The interesting occupation of photographing the mushrooms and the toadstools doubtless has contributed largely to the determination culminating in the materialization of the treatise.

  46. Hamilton Gibson upon Edible Toadstools and Mushrooms--an article which I thoroughly devoured, soon after purchasing his book upon the subject.

  47. Mushrooms and Toadstools 3 What Any One May Eat 4 How to Preserve Mushrooms 5 Terms Used 5 What Is a Fungus or a Mushroom?

  48. Needles of rock, toadstools of rock, bubbles of rock, and glassy sheets of rock--this was the surface of the moon.

  49. Mushrooms and toadstools were their food.

  50. It was the season when the toadstools sent out their spores, or seeds, and they had been dropped upon him at the first sign of disturbance.

  51. And after thirty thousand years, Burl, a direct descendant of the first president of the Universal Republic, crept through a forest of toadstools and fungus growths.

  52. Towering far above his head, three man-heights high, great toadstools hid the grayish sky from his sight.

  53. Clinging to the foot-thick stalks of the toadstools were still other fungi, parasites upon the growth that had once been parasites themselves.

  54. And all because from childhood she has been taught that toadstools are poison.

  55. You did not eat any of the--er--toadstools then?

  56. Is it likely I should make myself cross about a basketful of rubbishing toadstools that you've wasted your time in fetching out of the woods?

  57. And there I kept on finding no end of toadstools such as you delight in devouring.


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