22 Verbs to Use for the Word croaking

I hear the croakings of Despair, The dark predictions of the weak; I find myself pursued by Care, No matter what the end I seek; My victories are small and few, It matters not how hard I strive; Each day the fight begins anew, But fighting keeps my hopes alive.

"And I, for one, am tired of hearing you croak.

Well, I forgive them their croaking, though most of them have dined at my table and drank my wine.

Just one word, a parting trope: It is not alone the royal eagle who may despise the croaking of the raven; the swan, too, is proud and takes no note of it.

The next time that frog croaks we go for our guns, eh?

But next I see, in my endeavor, Thy birds here do not live forever; That cold or hunger, sickness or age, Finishes their earthly stage; The rook drops without a stroke, And never gives another croak; Birds lie here, and birds lie there, With little feathers all astare; And in Thy own sermon, Thou That the sparrow falls dost allow.

A Cicàda, a fellow-lodger in the house, attracts me by its domestic chirp back into my bedroom, and is there my social companion, while, in a happy dreaming state, I await the coming day, kept half awake by the buzz of the mosquites, the kettle-drum croak of the bull-frog, or the complaining cry of the goatsucker.

But he perceived that it was made up of seven rounded bodies distinct or connected, and that the birds kept up a constant croaking and screaming, but seemed afraid to approach it too closely.

"Pass the bottle and let the old devil croak.

The were wolves mutter, the night hawks moan, The raven croaks from the Raven-stone; What care I for his boding groan, Riding the moorland to come to mine own?

In the fine Autolycus way; And though life wasn't a matter vital He kept with the lake its rasping title, Which recalls the croak of an amorous frog Or a siren heard in an ocean fog: Chagogagog-munchogagog-chabun-agungamog!

There sometimes doth a leaping fish 25 Send through the tarn a lonely cheer; The crags repeat the raven's croak, [C] In symphony austere; Thither the rainbow comesthe cloud And mists that spread the flying shroud; 30 And sunbeams; and the sounding blast, That, if it could, would hurry past; But that enormous barrier holds it fast.

All about us rose the croaking of the frogs, dominating all the other noises of the night, and uniting in one mighty chorus in the marshes along the river.

Blood red the sky and misty in the east Low vapours creeping bleakly o'er the hills The rain will soon come plashing on the rills No sound in all the place of bird or beast, Save that hoarse croak that all the woodland fills.

The locusts hummed drowsily, as if they were almost asleep, and the frogs in the ponds sent out an occasional muffled croak.

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

A frog down by the spring set up a dismal croaking.

Verty cocked his rifle, and uttered the low croak again.

In the depths of the woods an owl raised its soft, regular cry, while from a pond on the right ascended a faint croaking of frogs, so far away that it sounded like the vibration of crystal.

God's wrath for Paris, thy son, that he died not long ago: Who sold for his evil love Troy and the towers thereof: Therefore the dead men lie Naked, beneath the eye Of Pallas, and vultures croak And flap for joy:

Don't you believe any croaking of that sort, Phoebe.'

A raven cried croak!

22 Verbs to Use for the Word  croaking