I have an especial regard for the giant toad in one of the cases against the inner wall of the reptile-house lobby.

He just stalks hop-toads on the side.

He finds himself 'like a toad under a harrow, where ilka tooth gies him a tug,' as the Scotch say.

On looking down she observed some object of a reddish-brown colour; and becoming alarmed lest it might be one of the toads with which the place was sometimes invaded, she started back.

Still, in every way the frog and the toad are underesteemedas though such a thing as a worthy family frog or an honourable toad of business were in Nature impossible.

I would not break the spider's thread, The buzzing insect dances free; I crush no toad beneath my tread, The lizard crawls in liberty!

The term toad as a prefix, like that of dog, frequently means spurious, as in the toad-flax, a plant which, before it comes into flower, bears a tolerably close resemblance to a plant of the true flax.

After which, dead silence; save of the surf to the east and the toads to the west.

"I have heard that toads at Porto Bello are so numerous, that it is the popular prejudice that the drops of rain are changed into toads; and even the more learned maintain that the eggs of this animal are raised with the vapors from the adjoining swamps, and being conveyed to the city by the succeeding rains, are there hatched.

" From the young toads around the old toad, the young man seized one at hazard, and placed it in the scooped-out turnip, but hardly was it there when the most astounding change occurred, for the toad was transformed into a wondrously lovely maiden, the turnip became an elegant carriage, and the six mice were turned into handsome horses.

The famous and choleric physician, Dr. Radcliffe, in revenge for some slight he had endured, had threatened to "throw a toad into King Bladud's Well," by writing a pamphlet against the medicinal efficacy of the waters.

In this quiet home the boy invented the strangest diversions for himself; he made pets of the most odd and unlikely animals, and numbered certain snails and toads among his intimate friends.

Well, the Little Playmate lifted a toad from her waistI mean my handand dropped it as far from her as her arm would reach.

It had the effect of discouraging the Greenfields claim, but Amos used to sit on the headgate just the same, as quaint and lone a figure as the sandhill crane watching for water toads below the Tule drop.

You ought to be all toads by this time, at the very least.

The tin-horns come out after pay-day, like hop-toads after a rain.

Their plumage is almost always striking, but their voices are rather lisping than musical, though they sing pretty little snatches in the woods; but many of their call-notes sound more like the squeaks and buzzings of insects and tree-toads than like the voices of birds, and it will take time and practice before you can distinguish them apart.