sapo, m., toad, large toad. saquear, to plunder, pillage.

sapo, m., toad, large toad. saquear, to plunder, pillage.

He sat up in bed with a jump like a hop-toad, and looked first at one and then at the other of us.

In this it differs a good deal from the toad, and there is significance in the difference.

The "heavy-gaited toad," satisfied with sour ants, hard beetles, and such other fare as it can easily pick up, and grown nasty in consequence, so that nothing seeks to eat it, has hobbled through life, like a plethoric old gentleman, until the present day, on its original feet.

there appears a plain foot, with its five digits, each of several joints, tipped with clawsnowise essentially different, in short, from that with which the toad, or frog, first set out in a past too distant for our infirm imagination.

"Horrid little pretentious toad!"

Toad and spider, dirty water, Rusty nails, and nine charms more.

This state of mind would probably continue till the irritation of enemies and the encouragement of friends convinced him that what he had at first exhibited as an idle fancy was in fact a very valuable discovery, or "like the toad ugly and venomous, had yet a precious jewel in its head."

But I'm not one of thewhat I call dumpy-toad-in-the-hole ones.

Behind them, seated side by side, poring over a manuscript entitled "Blank Verse, by Toad and Frog," are a toad and frog which the Key states to be Lloyd and Lamb.

Behind them, seated side by side, poring over a manuscript entitled "Blank Verse, by Toad and Frog," are a toad and frog which the Key states to be Lloyd and Lamb.

It was in reference to this picture that Godwin, on first meeting Lamb, asked him, "Pray, Mr. Lamb, are you toad or frog?" Page 21.

Don't know what it means!" croaked Sticky-toes the Tree Toad, over and over again.

Just tell me how it is that I hear my own voice when I don't speak a word," said Sticky-toes the Tree Toad.

And if Sticky-toes the Tree Toad sat all night with his mouth shut tight, how could the voice of Sticky-toes be heard in an altogether different tree than the one Sticky-toes was spending the night in?

Then it was that they heard the voice of Sticky-toes the Tree Toad.

XVI UNC' BILLY POSSUM DOES A LITTLE SURPRISING HIMSELF When Unc' Billy Possum first heard what sounded like the voice of Sticky-toes the Tree Toad, he had thought, just as Peter Rabbit did, that Sticky-toes was over in an alder tree on the other side of the Laughing Brook.

" He said that to himself and quite under his breath, for all the time that Peter Rabbit and Sticky-toes the Tree Toad were whispering together, Unc' Billy Possum was stealing away under the alder bushes.

Just as soft-footed as before, he crept along in the darkest shadows, until he was right under the alder tree from which the complaining voice of Sticky-toes the Tree Toad seemed to come.

" So off the two started to see old Mrs. Possum, and for the rest of that night Sticky-toes the Tree Toad listened in vain for the sound of his own voice when his lips were closed tight.

Then Sticky-toes the Tree Toad had been accused of being noisy, when all the time he was sitting with his mouth closed as tight as tight could be.

Just then the voice of Sticky-toes the Tree Toad began to Croak "It's going to rain!

Why, when neither the common toad or frog are indigenous in Ireland (for the latter, though common enough now, was only introduced at the beginning of last century) a comparatively rare little toad, the Natterjack, should be found in one corner of Kerry to all appearances indigenously?

I strove to be civil, yet he embarrassed me before the others, babbling of petty matters interesting only to those whose taste invites them to go burrowing in parish records and ill-smelling volumes written by some toad-eater to his patron.

Please!" He toed the carpet.

" They tip-toed round the building.

" Five minutes later the conspirators crept out into the passage, and tip-toed towards the door of the adjoining study.

I well remembered the little inner room formed by the bartizan of the tower, and into this I tip-toed, feeling horribly guilty.

When he spoke, which was infrequent, he stammered; when he walked he toed in.

He wore no longer the well-cut clothes of Mr. Douglas Romilly's Saville Row tailor, but a ready-made suit of Schmitt & Mayer's business reach-me-downs, an American felt hat and square-toed shoes.

The lid of the basket tilted a little, between lid and rim a soft, furry, six-toed gray paw was thrust out.

She seemed to be having some difficulty with the wicker basket; beseeching six-toed paws were thrust out persistently; soft meows pleaded for the right of liberty and pursuit of feline happiness.

The Condylarthra seem to have gone out of existence before the time of the middle Eocene, but before this they had become separated into the two great divisions of odd-toed and even-toed ungulates, into which all truly hoofed beasts now living fall.

The Condylarthra seem to have gone out of existence before the time of the middle Eocene, but before this they had become separated into the two great divisions of odd-toed and even-toed ungulates, into which all truly hoofed beasts now living fall.

Contrasted with these, Artiodactyla have always an even number of functional digits, the third and fourth reaching the ground symmetrically, bearing the weight and forming the "split hoof;" the second and fifth remain, in most cases, as mere vestiges, showing externally as the accessory hoofs or dewclaws; in the hippopotamus alone they are fully developed and the animal has a four-toed foot.

The present ungulates may be summed up in this way: Odd-toed: (Perissodactyla) Horse, Ass, Rhinoceros, Tapir.

Even-toed: (Artiodactyla) Non-ruminants Hippopotamus, Swine, Peccaries.

In an old city by the storied shores Where the bright summit of Olympus soars, A cryptic statue mounted towards the light Heel-winged, tip-toed, and poised for instant flight.

The three-toed woodpecker, Picus tridactylus, was equally unknown to Wilson, and the second volume of Bonaparte, now about to be issued, contains an elegant figure and history of this bird, which also inhabits the north of Europe and Asia.

The foot predisposed to navicular disease is the strong, round, short-toed or clubby foot, open at the heels, with a sound frog jutting prominently out between them.

" The New Orleans Bulletin, August 18, 1838, advertises "the negress Mary, aged nineteen, has a scar on her face, walks parrot-toed, and is pregnant.

He was clad in a blue serge jacket, a pair of red breeches smeared at the knees with tar, clean gray worsted stockings, large steel buckles over his coarse square-toed shoes, and beside him, balanced upon the top of a thick oaken cudgel, was a weather-stained silver-laced hat.

Ballads of square-toed Americans.

Ballads of square-toed Americans.

Ballads of square-toed Americans.

So, after a moment of hesitation, he gathered up his papers, and tip-toed out of the room with an absurd exaggeration of respect, and a heart bounding jubilant under his flapped waistcoat.

Looking at their footmarks on the ground they seem to throw an almost straight track, neither splayed nor in-toed, and to set their feet down with a gentle forward pressure, rather like the Australian's stealthy footfall.

Among the savages I saw two others with light eyes, and a third I never should have suspected had not Sir George pointed out his feet, which were planted on the ground like the feet of a white man when he walked, and not parallel or toed-in.

Her dress was a gray pongee, simply made and short; I could see her round-toed morocco shoes, tied with black ribbon.