68 examples of toadstools in sentences

Thus the word "Puck" has been identified with Poggetoad, under which form the devil was supposed to be personified; and hence probably originated such expressions as toadstools, paddock-stools, &c.

The toadstools often found near these so-called fairy-rings were also thought to be their workmanship, and in some localities are styled pixy-stools, and in the North of Wales "fairy-tables," while the "cheeses," or fruit of the mallow, are known in the North of England as "fairy-cheeses.

Fishing-boats with shining sails hovered over it, like dragon-flies, going and coming from the little houses that sheltered together under the opposite mountain, like a cluster of gray toadstools by a towering pine stump.

The rocks rose like huge red toadstools or like prehistoric animals of vast size.

Toadstools, symptoms according to Tobacco plant, the poison.

In this valley there seemed to be a deal of a strange vegetation that had the appearance of mighty toadstools; and down nearer the beach there was a thick grove of a kind of very tall reed, and

For hearing much of the edible properties of certain European toadstools, he resolved to try a few experiments in his own person on West Indian ones; during the course of which he found himself one evening, after a good toad-stool dinner, raving mad.

Just so may be seenI have seena large flagstone lifted in a night by a crop of tiny soft toadstools which have suddenly blossomed up beneath it.

Is it possible you are not aware that your poor notes raise a smile right through the forest, accustomed to the fluting of the thrush? CHANTECLER I know, you are trying now to reach me through my pride, but THE PHEASANT-HEN I doubt if you can get so many as three toadstools and a couple of sassafras stalks to listen to you, when the ardent oriole flings across the leafy gloom his melodious pir-piriol!

Then it was that a young man, with a face shining with sorrow, vaulted lightly over the mossed fence and dipped down the green path, among the shadows and the toadstools and the silence.

Ah! if she were only here to-day, he would bring her something more beautiful than wordsor toadstools.

She had asked for flowers, he had brought her toadstools.

Among other things she told him that sometimes people came to her for bad medicines, to give to persons with whom they had quarreled, and in this way they would kill them with the poisons which she made out of toadstools and other deadly things.

After dinner I made a picture frame of mosses, lichens, and red and yellow toadstools, ever so pretty; then proofs came, then we had tea, and then went and made calls.

A splendid day, and we have all been as busy as bees, if not as useful,H. making a whip to chastise the cow with, M., Nep and myself collecting mosses and toadstools; of the latter I brought home 185!

H. has just presented me with three pockets full of toadstools.

Some of them are in imitation of the hollow toadstools one finds in the woods.

© 5Aug26, B706757. R115572, 6Aug53, Arthur S. Pederson (Wr) Taxis and toadstools, verses and decorations.

SEE Field, Rachel Lyman. Taxis and toadstools.

SEE Field, Rachel Lyman. Taxis and toadstools.

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.

There are checker-berries on the outskirts of the wood, where the partridge (he is a ruffed grouse really) dines, and by the deserted logging-roads toadstools of all colours sprout on the decayed stumps.

I cannot say, of course, how far Castelvetri may have prosecuted his inquiries, though he certainly leaves the impression of having been intelligently observant; or whether he includes in this observation the edible toadstools; but even now much unreasonable prejudice exists as to the latter, and very limited use is made of any but two or three familiar sorts of the mushroom itself.

Not a pane of glass is to be found in it; planks and old doors are nailed fast to the window frames; the balls alone still stand on the two towers, broad, heavy, and resembling colossal toadstools.

As the supply of these toadstools is by no means equal to the demand, Korak ingenuity has been greatly exercised in the endeavour to economise the precious stimulant, and make it go as far as possible.

68 examples of  toadstools  in sentences