68 examples of toadstool in sentences

Maybe I should turn her into a toadstool to show you that I am the all-powerful one here.

HOW TO DISTINGUISH MUSHROOMS FROM TOADSTOOLS.The cultivated mushroom, known as Agaricus campestris, may be distinguished from other poisonous kinds of fungi by its having pink or flesh-coloured gills, or under-side, and by its invariably having an agreeable smell, which the toadstool has not.

On the spit, from among tussocks, a man in a round hat sprang up like a thin black toadstool.

But it is no better than a toadstool, odious to the sense and poisonous to the intellect, when it spawns itself all over the talk of men and youths capable of talking, as it sometimes does.

At that, the bo'sun led us round a space towards that side where lay the valley, and here there was under-foot neither sand nor rock; but ground of strange and spongy texture, and then suddenly, rounding a jutting spur of the rock, we came upon the first of the vegetationan incredible mushroom; nay, I should say toadstool; for it had no healthy look about it, and gave out a heavy, mouldy odor.

Apart from the markings which I have mentioned, there was everywhere a deal of slime, and this we traced all over the valley among the great toadstool plants; but, beyond that which I have already remarked, we found nothing.

[U.S.]; arboretum &c 371. bush, jungle, prairie; heath, heather; fern, bracken; furze, gorse, whin; grass, turf; pasture, pasturage; turbary^; sedge, rush, weed; fungus, mushroom, toadstool; lichen, moss, conferva^, mold; growth; alfalfa, alfilaria^, banyan; blow, blowth^; floret^, petiole; pin grass, timothy, yam, yew, zinnia.

" "How can you tell a poisonous toadstool from a harmless one?" asked Agony.

[They seat themselves around a large toadstool.]

Robert, looking rather like a toadstool with his topi and thin legs, said, "I'm going to Scotland soon, and I'm not coming back to India till I have a long beard.

Occasionally, in some rare sequestered nook, an umbrella, springing up unnecessarily and defiantly like a toadstool, above two male legs and a muslin skirt.

Who can look at this exquisite little creature, seated on its toadstool cushion, and not acknowledge its prerogative of life,that mysterious influence which in spite of the stubborn understanding masters the mind,sending it back to days long past, when care was but a dream, and its most serious business a childish frolic?

He turns round on his heels and scribbles out a great many prescriptions, but his skill is not worth a toadstool.

If that which was sown a lily comes up a toadstool, there is evidently something wrong with the soil.

I. For a time at least the spreading circle of residual consequences about the Experimental Farm must pass out of the focus of our narrativehow for a long time a power of bigness, in fungus and toadstool, in grass and weed, radiated from that charred but not absolutely obliterated centre.

Songs from Around a toadstool table.

Songs from Around a toadstool table.

'All we, poor fellows, can do,' he added, turning to Herbert, 'is to wake the Hellenistic raptures of May Fair; and that they call fame; as much like fame as a toadstool is like a truffle.'

And why not take some of this delightful toadstool with him, for them to eat?

It represents a child about four years old seated on a toadstool which breaks beneath him.

While I was watching it I rather started, for I saw in a corner of the den close to me an enormous sort of bloated sea toadstool (as I thought), but it had eyes, it was covered with warts, it seemed very faint, and it heaved and panted.

Upon inquiry we learned to our astonishment that they had been eating a species of the plant vulgarly known as toadstool.

It may sound strangely to American ears, but the invitation which a convivial Korak extends to his passing friend is not, "Come in and have a drink," but, "Won't you come in and take a toadstool?"

Sometimes, in the course of human events, it becomes imperatively necessary that a whole band shall get drunk together, and they have only one toadstool to do it with.

Besides all these vices, they eat the intoxicating Siberian toadstool in inordinate quantities, and this habit alone will in time debase and brutalise any body of men to the last degree.

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