76 Verbs to Use for the Word frog

Since I saw you I have been in France, and have eaten frogs.

So argue also, probably, the popular poets, to whose "luxuriant fancy" everything suggests anything, and thought plays leap-frog with thought down one page and up the next, till one fancies at moments that they had got permission from the higher powers, before looking at the universe, to stir it all up a few times with a spoon.

"Do you hear the frogs?" "I've been listening to them for the last half-hour," her mother said. "Isn't everything sweet to-night, with the soft air and the elms all feathered out, and the new moon!" "Was it ever so green before?"

He gave them lodgings for the night, and honest bread and cheese, but for his own supper he took frogs out of his bosom, and roasted these in the coals.

It was easy to catch the frogs as they remain quite still for the few seconds it takes to catch them, the difficult part being only to ensure that once caught they do not slip out of your grasp, for frogs are quite wet and slippery.

And he that is wise and strong enough to create frogs in one way in every ditch at this moment, is he not wise and strong enough to create frogs by some other way, if he should choose, whether in Egypt of old, or now, here, this very day?

They don't understand "frogs," though 't is a common phrase with us.

And the feller studied a minute, and then says, kinder sad like, "Well, I'm only a stranger here, and I ain't got no frog; but if I had a frog, I'd bet you.

Then tie up the frog in a wet cloth, leaving one of the hind legs outside.

It needs no frog to nip it.

Well, what's he good for?" "Well," Smiley says, easy and careless, "he's good enough for one thing, I should judgehe can outjump any frog in Calaveras county.

Run!" cried Bully the frog.

To swell a man with a tympany is as good sport as to blow a frog.

When it was not easy to find one already blue, the prudent tradesman kept a green frog in a blue glass vase for a few weeks, and brought it out as blue as you might wish.

He ketched a frog one day, and took him home, and said he cal'lated to educate him; and so he never done nothing for three months but set in his back yard and learn that frog to jump.

Some one had told him that old, old countryside story, "If you kill a frog, the cows will give bloody milk."

Then the Romans returned and found the frog, and threw it out of the city and there burned it.

If they say they have swallowed frogs or a snake, by all means grant it, and tell them you can easily cure it;" 'tis an ordinary thing.

Did you ever taste frogs?

They pretended to send frogs over the land of Egypt, when every corner of it was swarming with that loathsome reptile.

Smiley was monstrous proud of his frog, and well he might be, for fellers that had traveled and been everywheres, all said he laid over any frog that ever they see.

He ketched a frog one day, and took him home, and said he cal'lated to educate him; and so he never done nothing for three months but set in his back yard and learn that frog to jump.

And from the gloom on their left a frog croaked hoarsely.

Conditions such as these, although not constituting the disease itself, certainly lay the frog open to infection, especially if afterwards the animal is called upon to work in the mud of the streets of a large town, or to stand in a badly drained and damp stable.

[Translated by René Basset and Chauncey C. Starkweather] STORIES OF ANIMALS THE TURTLE, THE FROG, AND THE SERPENT Once upon a time the turtle married a frog.

76 Verbs to Use for the Word  frog