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  • Edible, adj.: Good to eat, and wholesome to digest, as a worm to a toad, a toad to a snake, a snake to a pig, a pig to a man, and a man to a worm.

    Food   Science   Men  
    Ambrose Bierce (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ambrose Bierce (Illustrated)”, p.2387, Delphi Classics
  • Think as I think," said a man, "or you are abominably wicked; you are a toad." And after I thought of it, I said, "I will, then, be a toad.

    Men   Thinking   Wicked  
    Stephen Crane, “Think As I Think”
  • I'm going down the apples and pears, into the jam jar, down the frog and toad into the rub-da-dub-dub, and I'm going to have pig's ear.

    Pigs   Apples   Jam  
  • Nothing is rarer than a solitary lie; for lies breed like Surinam toads; you cannot tell one but out it comes with a hundred young ones on its back.

    Lying   Toads   Hundred  
    Washington Allston (1850). “Lectures on Art, and Poems”, p.173
  • It rained toads the day the White Council came to town.

    White   Toads   Towns  
    Jim Butcher (2002). “Summer Knight: Book four of The Dresden Files”, p.10, Penguin
  • One of these days I'm going to say the wrong thing to the wrong mage, and I'll be spending the rest of my days searching for Mrs Right Toad.

  • Come back and wake me up.....half past May! (the Toad)

    Past   Half   Toads  
  • The poet Marianne Moore famously wrote of 'real toads in imaginary gardens,' and the labyrinth offers us the possibility of being real creatures in symbolic space...In such spaces as the labyrinth we cross over [between real and imaginary spaces]; we are really travelling, even if the destination is only symbolic.

    Real   Garden   Space  
  • In shape they were like horrible toads, and moved in a succession of springs, but in size they were of an incredible bulk, larger than the largest elephant. We had never before seen them save at night, and indeed they are nocturnal animals save when disturbed in their lairs, as these had been. We now stood amazed at the sight, for their blotched and warty skins were of a curious fish-like iridescence, and the sunlight struck them with an ever-varying rainbow bloom as they moved.

    Spring   Animal   Night  
    Arthur Conan Doyle (2015). “Sir Arthur Conan Doyle The Dover Reader”, p.436, Courier Dover Publications
  • The toad beneath the harrow knows Exactly where each tooth point goes.

    Teeth   Toads   Knows  
    'Pagett, MP' (1886)
  • The toad has indeed no superior as a destroyer of noxious insects, and he possesses no bad habits and is entirely inoffensive himself, every owner of a garden should treat him with utmost hospitality.

    Animal   Garden   Toads  
    Celia Thaxter (2008). “An Island Garden”, p.10, Applewood Books
  • It's a terrible thing for a man when his woman gangs up on him wi' a toad

    Husband   Men   Wife  
  • RAREBIT n. A Welsh rabbit, in the speech of the humorless, who point out that it is not a rabbit. To whom it may be solemnly explained that the comestible known as toad-in-a-hole is really not a toad, and that riz-de-veau à la financière is not the smile of a calf prepared after the recipe of a she banker.

    Food   Cooking   Bankers  
  • A toad does not run in the daytime for nothing

    Running   Doe   Toads  
    Chinua Achebe (1996). “Things Fall Apart”, p.15, Heinemann
  • Mum had done everything you need to educate a kid. She made me a kid who likes books and she told me about 'Wind in the Willows' and read it and I thought this is weird, Rat, Mole, Toad and my first ever Bolshie thought - you know about 'The Wind in the Willows.'

    Book   Kids   Wind  
    "Sir Terry Pratchett: hallucinating gently for a living". Interview with Corinne Podger, www.abc.net.au. April 30, 2011.
  • If I had wanted to ice the little toad, I would have done it a long time ago.

    Ice   Long   Done  
  • Men are vile inconstant toads.

    Men   Toads  
    Lady Mary Wortley Montagu (1967). “1708-1720”
  • The moan of the whip-poor-will from the hillside; the boding cry of the tree-toad, that harbinger of storm; the dreary hooting of the screechowl.

    Tree   Storm   Toads  
    Washington Irving (2009). “The Legend of Sleepy Hollow and Other Stories: Or, The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent.”, p.11, Modern Library
  • A poetess who had died young of cancer had said in one of her poems that for her, on sleepless nights, 'the night offers toads and black dogs and corpses of the drowned.

    Dog   Cancer   Night  
    Yasunari Kawabata (2017). “House of the Sleeping Beauties and Other Stories”, p.12, Vintage
  • And people say it all the time: 'You're a celebrity.' No, I'm an actor. I'm a producer. I'm a director. I'm a toad. I'm roadkill. I'm anything but a celebrity.

    "Drew Barrymore: Don't mention the c-word". Interview with Emma Brockes, www.theguardian.com. March 26, 2010.
  • The smell of that buttered toast simply spoke to Toad, and with no uncertain voice; talked of warm kitchens, of breakfasts on bright frosty mornings, of cozy parlour firesides on winter evenings, when one's ramble was over and slippered feet were propped on the fender; of the purring of contented cats, and the twitter of sleepy canaries.

    Morning   Cat   Winter  
    1908 The Wind in the Willows, ch.8.
  • A southwest blow on ye and blister you all o'er!' 'The red plague rid you!' 'Toads, beetles, bats, light on you!' 'As wicked dew as e'er my mother brushed with raven's feather from unwholesome fen drop on you.' 'Strange stuff' 'Thou jesting monkey thou' 'Apes with foreheads villainous low' 'Pied ninny' 'Blind mole...' -The Caliban Curses

    Mother   Blow   Light  
  • Know that diamonds and roses are as uncomfortable when they tumble from one's lips as toads and frogs: colder, too, and sharper, and they cut.

    Cutting   Rose   Toads  
    Neil Gaiman (2008). “M Is for Magic”, HarperCollins
  • My first character was Mr. Toad.

  • Look at the bark of a redwood, and you see moss. If you peer beneath the bits and pieces of the moss, you'll see toads, small insects, a whole host of life that prospers in that miniature environment. A lumberman will look at a forest and see so many board feet of lumber. I see a living city.

    Cities   Feet   Forests  
  • The chief is the chief. He is the eagle who flies high and cannot be touched by the spit of the toad.

    Eagles   Toads   Spit  
    "The Fate of Africa". Book by Martin Meredith (p. 525), October 1991.
  • If God had wanted us to be concerned for the plight of the toads, he would have made them cute and furry.

    Cute   Plight   Toads  
    Dave Barry (2010). “Dave Barry's Greatest Hits”, p.285, Ballantine Books
  • You make us look bad', complained Toad. 'You looked bad before I ever met you', Jon told him.

    Looks   Toads   Mets  
    George R. R. Martin (2012). “George R. R. Martin's A Game of Thrones 5-Book Boxed Set (Song of Ice and Fire Series): A Game of Thrones, A Clash of Kings, A Storm of Swords, A Feast for Crows, and and A Dance with Dragons”, p.161, Bantam
  • Toad talked big about all he was going to do in the days to come, while stars grew fuller and larger all around them, and a yellow moon, appearing suddenly and silently from nowhere in particular, came to keep them company and listen to their talk.

    Stars   Moon   Yellow  
    Kenneth Grahame (1914). “The Wind in the Willows”, p.17, Hayes Barton Press
  • Sweet are the uses of adversity which, like the toad, ugly and venomous, wears yet a precious jewel in his head.

    'As You Like It' (1599) act 2, sc. 1, l. 12
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