Which preposition to use with tadpole
I had not much to go by; schooners are as plenty as tadpoles in San Francisco harbour.
In the case of the frog, the tadpole as a first sketch seems completely an impossible and wild absurdity.
For some days he meditated upon the possibility of boarding out his tadpoles with some trustworthy person, and then the chance sight of the phrase in a newspaper turned his thoughts to an Experimental Farm.
A benevolent zoologist one day started in to help the tadpole by snipping off the tadpole's tail; he made a frog of him in a hurry, but the strange thing was that that frog never was able to leap properly.
He was quite puzzled to understand why he had not thought of chicks instead of tadpoles from the beginning.
Take the unfolding of the specialized tissues and organs which transform the tadpole into the frog and the chrysalis into the butterfly.
The flame at the club shot up threefold, with a crash; and a glorious criss-cross multitude of sparks flew hissing through the treetops, like fiery tadpoles through a net.