Shortly afterward the larger growthcypress and oakdiminished, as the band straggled into the open, starry night at the margin of what they could tell was water by the croaking of frogs and plashing of night birds and reptiles.

"Why not?" he asked in his harsh croak of a voice.

A lizard set up a monotonous croak in the branches overhead, and insects and unseen things began to stir in the foliage.

In a few officers' Messes, especially among the more exalted units, men of forty years and more croaked like ravens over their impending loss of pay and rank, Brigadier Generals who would soon be Colonels again, and Colonels who would soon be Majors.

Made in the image"a hoarse frog croaks from the pool "Hark! 'twas some god, voicing his glorious thought In thunder music!

You want to croak about something or other.

But short shall be his reign: his rigid yoke And tyrant power will puny sects provoke; And frogs and toads, and all the tadpole train, Will croak to heaven for help, from this devouring crane.

All the Davids in the world could croak on my doorstep, and if the police couldn't get me for it, I'd worry.

As long as they kept on dry land all went fairly well; but, coming to the edge of a pool, the Frog jumped in, taking the Mouse with him, and began swimming about and croaking with pleasure.

However, in view of the present wise policy of our leading colleges, we shall have to stop croaking before long, especially as enthusiastic alumni already begin to fancy a visible improvement in the physique of graduating classes on Commencement Day.

Down beneath grow dandelions, Daisies, old-man's-looking-glasses; Rooks flap croaking across the lane.

"Well," he croaked at last, "go ahead and shoot.

"I suppose I shouldn't be croaking into your ear like a bird of ill omen, when you have to throw yourself heart and soul into that concert to-morrow," she said contritely.

She blessed the queen and said, "The king will take you back with him to the palace, and your co-wife will become half frog, half human being, and will have to croak outside your bath-room while you bathe."

A pious and exemplary dame, especially well-versed in the catechism, who, in Goodman Brown's fantasy of the witches' revel in the forest, joins him on his way thither, and croaks over the loss of her broomstick, which was "all anointed with the juice of small-age and cinquefoil and wolf's bane" "Mingled with fine wheat and the fat of a new-born babe," says another shape.

"He hasn't got a chance with all you people grousing and croaking round him.

In the middle of the fuss a stray shot hit the cayuse in the head and he croaked without a remark, so there we were, a pair of fools miles from home with nothing left to quarrel about!

The frogs were croaking among the reeds, and the wild duck squattered in the dusk.