| 单词 | toad |
| 例句 | Instead, through clenched teeth, she warned, “Stop talking, or I’m going to hex you to be my toad’s wife.” Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z “How about getting a horned toad like the Seed Collector for Pond?” Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z “Help! The sun is rising!” the horned toad said. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z “It’s for the horned toad that walks and talks.” Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z On the shelves stood glass bottles filled with preserved animals: snakes, lizards, toads, and many creatures Jule could not identify. Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z The toad did not so much as flick a muscle or blink an eye. Tuck Everlasting 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z All thoughts of being turned into a toad, of missing out on the life she’d always hoped for, and of being a Spare felt small and insignificant right now. Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z Birds and bats, toads and cats, slimy and scaly, noble and humble. Willodeen 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z Swear toads infested every damp patch, cursing like sailors. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z Valley asked, walking into the room with a handful of toads from the toad tank. Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z The spadefoot toads and turtles and slithering creatures, the chattering of black insects. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z Normally, he would have shrugged off Nali’s comments, but then he had seen the footprint and the horned toad that wore a turquoise necklace. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z When Neville Longbottom, the boy who kept losing his toad, was called, he fell over on his way to the stool. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z The toad, as if it saw that their interview was over, stirred again, bunched up, and bounced itself clumsily off toward the wood. Tuck Everlasting 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z “You know me better than to lie, you old toad.” The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge 2018-09-25T00:00:00Z I have committed to memory the common rights of toads and men. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z “Look here, toad,” she said, thrusting her arms through the bars of the fence and plucking at the weeds on the other side. Tuck Everlasting 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z Except my dad is the lion and the mullah is a toad. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z To get to Hollow Hall, I decide to take one of the toads, since only the Gentry ride silver-shod horses. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z Then the horned toad jumped out from behind First Turkey and pointed at Nathan with its finger. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z I had left the stolen book with the toad; the last thing I want Prince Dain to know is that I took something for myself. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z It was hardly her fault that Aunt Hermione had run off with some toad who delivered fireside sermons on the wireless every week. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z Thorn smiled at the toad, who was sitting in his little mushroom-shaped traveling tank atop a desk. Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z All toads might not be as mean as Edgar Allan Toad, but they were all just as finicky. Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z Crickets, frogs, toads, and owls followed them, all calling for night while leaving their hiding places. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z As the lamassus jumped out of the way of Idiptu's slime, I left a pair of deep chariot grooves across the toad's head. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z I step off the toad, foot in the stirrup as I swing my body down. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z It squatted there like some toad made of glass and wood and shingles. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z It was like observing a Martian, or a particularly warty toad. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z Slowly, carefully, she told him, “I will never call you an old toad again, esteemed guest.” The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge 2018-09-25T00:00:00Z He thought about the horned toad and the massive footprint. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z And there are all sorts of frogs, toads, and bugs too! Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z “Horned toads are usually messengers for the Holy Beings,” the water monster said. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z “How awful is my life that I’m hoping for a giant fiery toad to come and eat the giant fiery fly?” she muttered. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z From certain angles, she looked a bit like a large, good-tempered toad. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z With his lips clamped shut and his eyes bulging out of their sockets, he looked like a toad on steroids, but Mamá knew he was about to explode, so she nudged me aside. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z Only in Faerieland is a giant toad the less conspicuous choice. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z There are ants, grubs and beetles, frogs and toads, garter snakes, even salamanders if we’re lucky. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z He frowned and then added, “Looked like a toad.” Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z But we lived in the land of the toads and needed toad papers. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z “I hope we can pull it off without getting turned into toads. No offense, Edgar.” Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z But I made a deal with the Holy Being; oh yeah, First Turkey was there who was the boss of the little horned toad—its name is Seed Collector. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z And when she remembered the toad, she felt even more disheartened. Tuck Everlasting 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z She’d even joined the toad racing team and gotten stuck with the slowest, crankiest toad of the lot. Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z “Kick him out of this sacred hogan at once!” the horned toad screamed. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z By the second Tuesday night, I had gotten it about down and could say “toads” with a bloodcurdling croak when my mother knocked on my bedroom door. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z It was no wonder Seven’s toad was the worst; he hated music and croaked loudly whenever she tried to train him using any of the approved classical music for training. Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z The inside walls would be beautifully painted and hung with tapestries, and every cross-timber or falcon’s perch was carved and gewgawed with toads, snakes, dragon shapes, deer, cows, pigs, trees, trolls. Grendel 1971-01-01T00:00:00Z “Granny, can I have some water in a dish? There’s a toad out front that looks as if he’s just about to die of thirst.” Tuck Everlasting 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z “What do you know? Your toad is a dud,” Valley scoffed. Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z The toad had hopped up on one of the thick, flat-topped rocks we had set in the garden. Red Kayak 2004-09-23T00:00:00Z No more toad to hop from stone to scummy stone. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z She paused and peered anxiously at the toad to see how it would receive this staggering idea, but it showed no signs of interest. Tuck Everlasting 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z Then she remembered the actual feel of the toad, and the revulsion passed. Tuck Everlasting 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z Not once would I see a three-legged toad, though; you need strings of cash to bait them. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z Horned toads watched the family go by and turned their little pivoting dragon heads. The Pearl 1947-01-01T00:00:00Z But when they came out to the fence, Winnie balancing a small bowl of water with enormous care, the toad was gone. Tuck Everlasting 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z Inside the hole it’s dim and cold and damp and smells like toad burrows. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z All around us the toads are croaking to one another in their strange night song. Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z The announcer’s voice boomed over the loudspeaker just as the music began to play, and the toads were off. Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z I look at our hands, her smooth one, the nails pale moons, mine with its uttered cuticles, its skin of incipient toad. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z She kissed him and that seemed to please him; his face lit up, almost as much as before—before she had shown him that the toad was electric. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z The toads pirouetted and leapt gracefully with the music as they made their way to their team members. Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z The animals are equally varied, ranging from mountain goats to horned toads. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z “What? Did you find the eye of newt and heart of toad?” Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z Jack galloped into the trees, thinking only of bumpy toads and buried treasure and other things that hide in forests, waiting for children to find them. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z I tie up the toad, stuff my cloak into her saddlebags, and start toward the side of the manor, where I believe I will find a servants’ door. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z Crickets and night toads, the brattle of a dog, laundry billowing on a line against the night breeze. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z “Oh, Orddu,” the one with the necklace was saying, “why must it always be toads? Can’t you think of anything else?” The Black Cauldron 1965-06-01T00:00:00Z Suddenly they became the squat green toads they were always meant to be. Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z “A toad?” said her grandmother, wrinkling her nose in disgust. Tuck Everlasting 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z And remembering that other toad—her toad, she thought now, almost fondly—it seemed to her that she had been away from home for weeks. Tuck Everlasting 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z “Well, Lady du Burgh. It was a truly splendid party, if, ah, if, ah, if this ‘old toad’ may say so.” The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge 2018-09-25T00:00:00Z The horned toad tripped and fell headfirst into the dusty earth. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z He wanted to deal with the horned toad first. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z Like that toad, my mind was kind of hopping from one thing to another. Red Kayak 2004-09-23T00:00:00Z Something had to be done about that rude horned toad. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z The horned toad looked at Nathan, its eyes wide and its mouth open in shock. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z The donkey and especially the toad, the creatures most important to him, had vanished, had become extinct; only rotting fragments, an eyeless head here, part of a hand there, remained. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z We find a beetle, many small yellow and white roots, a toad. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z Outside the air glistened misty grey, and in the dark recesses of the yard, toads and tree frogs still serenaded the night. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z He passed a round-faced boy who was saying, “Gran, I’ve lost my toad again.” Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z The children got so used to his toad face and grabby hands, they began calling him Tio CapitSn and asking to hold his gun and ride on his knee horse. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z While the dog whined, pawing uselessly at the fence, she stood rigid, staring at the toad, wiping her hand again and again on the skirt of her dress. Tuck Everlasting 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z Setting the cardboard box down, he carefully began brushing the loose soil away from the toad. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z Not wilderness where there was system, or the logic of lions, trees, toads, and birds, but wild wilderness where there was none. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z One time he brought in a horned toad that got so mad he swelled out round and flat as a Mexican tortilla and bled at the eyes. Old Yeller 1956-01-01T00:00:00Z “I guess if we have to wait for the eye of newt and heart of toad to present themselves, we might as well get comfortable. What’d you bring?” Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z “Small horned toad. Rude as it is spiky. It’s stealing my seeds for my science experiment. I figured you’re a Holy Being, it’s a Holy Being. Maybe you know each other?” Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z “Sorry,” he said, “but have you seen a toad at all?” Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z It was the turquoise necklace of the horned toad. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z I went back to the “toads, beetles, bats” until my sister knocked on the door. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z I don’t worry that it’s not as hard as I thought to pretend to be like everyone else, to change your skin color like a toad. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z It was like one huge, happy toad laughing right in front of you. Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z This snake, which may reach gigantic size and live many hundreds of years, is born from a chicken’s egg, hatched beneath a toad. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z “I thought toads were extinct,” she said as she turned it over, curious about its legs; they seemed almost useless. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z “All worked up over them toads. Sorry, Hattie. Let’s stop in Charlie Mason’s café and have us some pie and coffee.” Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z "Hi, it's me. Sharon's boy, David. I was just in the kitchen admiring your collection of ceramic toads." Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z Despite its appearance and name, the horned toad was squishy. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z I meet my sisters in front of Madoc’s stables, where silver-shod faerie horses are penned up beside enormous toads ready to be saddled and bridled and reindeer with broad antlers hung with bells. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z In another wet area a few miles closer to Chamisaville, tiny toads gallantly hopped across the road. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z To be called an old toad by the Lady du Burgh! The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge 2018-09-25T00:00:00Z The ground was blanketed with fresh white snow as the Witchlings and one black wagon containing one cranky toad, pulled by Thorn, wound through town toward the Bruised Apple Bookshop. Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z Winnie picked up the toad and held it for a long time, without the least disgust, in the palm of her hand. Tuck Everlasting 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z I really wished I knew what that prize was, but I didn't want to reveal my ignorance to the toad. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z The Gran conjured a pendant of a toad with a mustache, and it attached itself to Seven’s cloak. Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z “And he is bold and clever! He will not let brave companions become toads with humpings and jumpings!” The Black Cauldron 1965-06-01T00:00:00Z It felt like worms and toads and slimy things crawling out of my chest, but it also felt good, as if this awful side of me had surfaced, at last. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z “She's got you so bewitched that one of these days I'm going to see you twisting around with colic and with a toad in your belly.” One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z Then she stooped and put her hand through the fence and set the toad free. Tuck Everlasting 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z They were fat toads that Tam Lin wouldn’t have thought twice about blowing up. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z At night, the mice and toads looked at me, their eyes quick stars and slow stars. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z They crouched in place, sizing each other up before carefully placing their toads on the rubber rainbow track but not letting go just yet. Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z At long last, the train stopped at Hogsmeade station, and there was a great scramble to get outside; owls hooted, cats meowed, and Neville’s pet toad croaked loudly from under his hat. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z He had been so invested in getting close to the horned toad that he had forgotten to notice which direction he had been walking. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z It made him look like a smiling toad. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z A pair of enormous purple toads sat gulping wetly and feasting on dead blowflies. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z Seven eyed her toad, who was sitting happily in his travel tank eating a ceramic dish full of spicy flies. Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z The shadows of the branches warped and twisted, and the horned toad disappeared. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z Seven was sure they could stop it and save Beefy from being eaten and themselves from being toads. Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z In the fourth grade he started a herpetology club, for anyone interested in toads, frogs, snakes, and various other amphibians and reptiles. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z His body was spread and his eyes bulged like a great toad, poised to spring. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z Each toad held a baton, sparkling with the prismatic light of anti-cheating magic. Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z They were damp, stained with the muddy tracks of toads and iguanas. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z It made a bold scientific declaration: even in the mysterious jungles of the New World, toads did not spring from mud, leaves did not change into moths, or butterflies into birds. The Girl Who Drew Butterflies: How Maria Merian's Art Changed Science 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z Once the toad and I are seated, the general turns back to his desk. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z She was certainly ugly, and yet, like the toad, she had eyes like jewels, dark and imperious, revealing latent energy and an intellectual force that could be felt at once. Murder on the Orient Express 1934-01-01T00:00:00Z It’s as cold and damp as the back of a toad. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z Nathan struggled to maintain enough distance so the horned toad couldn’t hear him but so he was close enough to listen in on what it was saying. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z He was supposed to call this thing cheii, like the horned toad. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z “No! I’m not a thief! I was following a rude horned toad and it dropped it.” Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z Neville, the boy who kept losing his toad, sniffed once or twice. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z “One thing I want,” retorted Eilonwy, “is not to be a toad.” The Black Cauldron 1965-06-01T00:00:00Z First of all, the toad appeared out of the weeds, on her side of the road this time. Tuck Everlasting 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z A young surgeon was summoned from Hartford to bleed her, and a nauseous brew of ground roasted toads was forced between her cracked lips, to no avail. The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z “Now that little Dallben’s gone, and found himself a beard, too, the place isn’t half as cheery as it used to be. We wouldn’t change you into a toad—unless you insisted on it.” The Black Cauldron 1965-06-01T00:00:00Z “Forget Poppy Fairweather,” Valley said on their way to the toad race. Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z Every kind of flower she could imagine, birds of every color of the rainbow, and critters of all sorts, from blue tree toads to bunnybeavers, bloomed and flew and scampered about the garden. Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z But no—of course it wasn’t the same toad. Tuck Everlasting 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z It was a large horned toad, certainly the largest Nathan had ever seen. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z Through the dewy weeds below the window, a toad hopped suddenly into view and Winnie peered at it eagerly. Tuck Everlasting 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z “A little horned toad dropped it in the desert along with a pumpkin seed!” Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z Seven knew there was no shame in a cleaning job, but toad sludge smelled horrific and pennies weren’t enough to live or eat on. Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z This horned toad was really getting on his last nerve. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z The seed popped out of the hole and into the horned toad’s hand. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z They were no closer to finding the Nightbeast, and there were only eleven days left before they were turned into toads. Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z “The legs of toads are weak,” Rick said. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z “Yeah, he seems more like a lizard or a toad,” Lettie agreed. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z We get to the stables, and I return the toad to her pen. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z Seven held the toad up to her face and looked at him closely. Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z I guess she does not know the word for toad. The Unfinished Angel 2009-09-22T00:00:00Z It was hard to know whether the toad was listening or not. Tuck Everlasting 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z “Oh,” she said, seeing the toad; for some reason it frightened her. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z He released the horned toad to shield his eyes and ears. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z Next to her the electric toad flopped and rustled in its box; she wondered what it “ate,” and what repairs on it would run. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z The piffling toad steps away from her and says, “Non capisco! Ha!” The Unfinished Angel 2009-09-22T00:00:00Z When we'd first met, the toad demon hadn't even come up to my shoulder. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z Even her toad would be better than that, but this was her awful reality. Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z “And you keep out of this! I’ll deal with you later, you little toad,” he said. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z I don’t bring the toad this time; I am more careful. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z Holding the glowing crystal before it, the horned toad exited the cornfield and entered the vast open desert. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z A fat warty toad that looked out at him from under the watering trough had no emotional effect on him at all. The Red Pony 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z The toad still squatted where she had dropped it, the dog still waited at the fence. Tuck Everlasting 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z My mother always loved anything that normally grows or lives out of doors— anything—lizards, trees, cows, caterpillars, birds, flowers, crickets, toads, ants, pigs. Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z I remember where a toad may live and what time the birds awaken in the summer—and what trees and seasons smelled like—how people looked and walked and smelled even. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z The toads pranced and twirled and shimmied to the finish line where, with one final croak and sidestep, Bob passed the red ribbon, victorious. Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z A few of the later plates even showed, for the first time, the life cycles of tropical frogs and toads, as well as lizards and snakes. The Girl Who Drew Butterflies: How Maria Merian's Art Changed Science 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z They were sentenced to public punishment by toad. Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z Even if setting a trap solved the horned toad problem, Nali still wanted the fence fixed. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z Werfel hopped up like a toad to see what the holdup was. The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge 2018-09-25T00:00:00Z Ten toads total were racing for each team, and the first to reach the finish line would be the winner of the race. Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z After the excitement of getting lost, running into the water monster, and seeing Devin, Nathan had completely forgotten about the horned toad that stole his seeds and very rudely called him fat. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z He felt alone and unprotected, and scraping crickets and shrilling tree frogs and croaking toads seemed to be carrying the melody of evil. The Pearl 1947-01-01T00:00:00Z Tia and Plip Flapper, the Stormville witch, waited on the other side of the finish line, crouched down, screaming support for each of their toads. Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z But this horned toad wore furry plant roots as bracelets and even a necklace of sweetgrass. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z “Maybe, but we can’t just hide. Either way, when the sun rises, we’ll be toads if we don’t fight back,” Seven said. Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z It was the face of a man of hardened integrity who could no more consciously violate the moral principles on which his virtue rested than he could transform himself into a despicable toad. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z If they could not solve the task, they would be turned into toads. Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z Winnie had found some pebbles at the base of the fence and, for lack of any other way to show how she felt, had flung one at the toad. Tuck Everlasting 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z The toad, he saw, blended in totally with the texture and shade of the ever-present dust. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z Nathan relied on the light of the crystal to figure out where the horned toad was. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z Today there was a toad racing match, and the Stormville racers had arrived to pit their toads against the team from Boggs Ferry—Thorn’s old town. Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z He looked up at Winnie’s frantic dancing and then he looked at the toad, who had pressed down close to the dirt, eyes tight shut. Tuck Everlasting 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z “Ah, leave him be,” I whispered as the toad sat still as a statue on his tiny moonlit stage. Red Kayak 2004-09-23T00:00:00Z “Only a few lucky toads have a set of these.” The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z “You look as low as a toad in a dry well, chile.” Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z And then, lifting her head, she saw the toad. Tuck Everlasting 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z The inside of the car was now one writhing cloud of smoke in which two lights glinted, copper-colored, like the beautiful eyes of a toad. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z He realized that the horned toad must also have a weave of wind! Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z This they poured, together with the insides of a toad, into a bowl. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z Winnie pulled out the cork from the mouth of the bottle, and kneeling, she poured the precious water, very slowly and carefully, over the toad. Tuck Everlasting 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z Seven wiggled her arms and hands and rolled her head around like she was getting ready for a toad race. Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z Death is the common right of toads and men. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z He didn’t know which direction the horned toad had been walking, but knowing which direction was north was a start. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z “You know why Snape’s in such a foul mood, don’t you?” said Ron to Harry as they watched Hermione teaching Neville a Scouring Charm to remove the toad guts from under his fingernails. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z I nodded extra and showed a lot of interest because I think he was a little embarrassed when I said that thing about the screaming toad and I felt bad. From Twinkle, with Love 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z She arranged a small box of odd treasures—stones, butterfly wings, a carved wooden toad—to give to Claire. Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z To pass the baton, a toad grabbed the edge of the baton with its mouth and then wiggled till it was holding it at its center. Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z About the only advice from the manual with which I agreed a hundred percent was: “Don’t eat toads.” Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z Now they were on their way to a toad race in town. Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z He had tried to imagine it one time, had imagined a toad in a fishbowl. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z Wilbur heard the trill of the tree toad and the occasional slamming of the kitchen door. Charlotte's Web 1952-10-15T00:00:00Z Nathan unlatched the lock and the horned toad sprinted away to a nearby ditch. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z She doubted what some said, that in the tropics, toads magically appeared when water was tossed on the ground. The Girl Who Drew Butterflies: How Maria Merian's Art Changed Science 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z We head for a structure crouching on the lip of the southern cliffs like a black toad. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z “Thundering toads,” Jennet would say, “I am but a poor woman with this wretched inn and a blind man to care for. I am sure God does not begrudge me my little economies.” The Midwife's Apprentice 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z The gnats were too frantic to notice these intrusions, however, and since every pebble missed its final mark, the toad continued to squat and grimace without so much as a twitch. Tuck Everlasting 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z The spotted toad launches us into the air, and I hang on. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z The crowd cheered wildly; Thorn, Valley, and Seven screamed and clapped as each toad completed its run. Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z Every four years, the Twelve Towns had a magic tournament—the Golden Frog Games, where the towns would compete in everything from toad racing to spell casting to enchanted dressmaking. Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z It’s far enough that I take a mount, a pale gray horse stabled beside a toad. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z Alaric looked madder than a toad on a hot lily pad. Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z At five o'clock in the morning the noise of the toads and crickets outside the wall woke him up. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z Now the toad squirmed; with its weak hind feet it tried to pry itself from his grip, wanting, instinctively, to go flopping off. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z “Can toads jump like frogs? I mean, will it jump out of my hands suddenly?” Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z What if the toad should be out by the fence again today? Tuck Everlasting 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z The Stormville toad dropped its baton in the very last second, and the crowd gasped in unison. Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z She had come out to the fence, very cross, very near the boiling point on a day that was itself near to boiling, and had noticed the toad at once. Tuck Everlasting 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z This was their last day before meeting their fate as toads, and she had to make sure Valley was okay. Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z I think the glimpse of the giant toad undid the last of her trust in me. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z “A week has already passed; we only have fourteen more days till we’re toads,” Valley said. Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z And he dived under the seat to retrieve his toad as it made one of its frequent bids for freedom. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z “There is the below world, the land of the past and our ancestors, home of the ground-dwelling fox, the toad, and the mighty serpent.” The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z “Can’t wait to see these toads race. It would take Edgar a week to complete a lap here,” Seven said with a chuckle. Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z “If it could tell us, we’d know. But since it can’t, I’m not going to kill it. That would be considering our feelings rather than the toad’s.” The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z Werfel’s neighbor called out to him, “On your way to embarrass yourself at court, you dismal little toad?” The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge 2018-09-25T00:00:00Z “You mightn’t like being toads at first,” the enchantress said reasonably. The Black Cauldron 1965-06-01T00:00:00Z He pranced up, his hind quarters leaping independently from side to side, nose close to the toad, his voice shrill with enthusiasm. Tuck Everlasting 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z I stood in our new yard, not brown now but lit gray-blue from the full moon, and I listened to the nighttime chorus of singing toads and bugs. Hope Springs 2021-08-10T00:00:00Z “Still think it’s some talking walking horned toad?” Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z Wish it had been toad for dinner, not tinned carrots, baked beans, and Heinz meatballs in gravy. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z I walked into the butterfly garden while Tilly went off to do her business, and spied a big toad making his way down the brick pathway in the moonlight. Red Kayak 2004-09-23T00:00:00Z Immediately, the horned toad jumped out from her side and took a big angry breath, inflating its round tummy. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z "Paint stripes on a toad, he does not become a tiger." A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z They knew the toad was the animal opposed to me in life, and that its touch or even its sight made me sick. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z In the abandoned ornamental garden, Rahel, watched by lolling dwarfs and a forsaken cherub, squatted by the stagnant pond and watched toads hop from stone to scummy stone. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z Or the fact that when a horned toad gets mad it shoots blood from its eyes. Crenshaw 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z Well, he did not change into a toad or anything; and he did not throw up—I had been expecting either possibility. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z She could try her very hardest and still end up sharing a tank with her toad. Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z The toad watches me with golden eyes as I saddle the mare and throw myself up onto her back. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z He is as close to a toad as a man can look. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z “How would you like it,” asked a cheerful voice behind Taran, “if you were turned into a toad? And stepped on?” The Black Cauldron 1965-06-01T00:00:00Z There was a horned toad standing on its hind legs, like Seed Collector. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z Although a servant would probably not have a mount of any kind, at least the toad is less conspicuous. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z He stopped opposite the fence and looked at Winnie with a friendly swish of his tail, and then he saw the toad. Tuck Everlasting 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z Nali was going to be so amazed to hear that there was a standing horned toad walking in her cornfield! Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z Shocked, he froze in place when he saw the large horned toad standing on its hind legs and holding a glowing quartz crystal. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z I saw rabbits, beavers, toads, and all sorts of colorful birds. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z I’ve seen many surprising friendships during my life: a pony and a toad, a red-tailed hawk and a white-footed mouse, a lilac bush and a monarch butterfly. Wishtree 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z There was even, she saw with satisfaction, the toad. Tuck Everlasting 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z “You think you can get away, you traitorous little toad?” The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge 2018-09-25T00:00:00Z It would be a relay-style toad race today, with each toad hopping 131 toadstools before passing a baton to their teammate. Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z Meanwhile, Nathan had to ask, “Are you working with that little talking horned toad?” Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z Thick and clammy air embraced me like the fingers of some loathsome toad. Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z How could I ever forget guys who looked like toads and rats, and a giant made of a billion flies? City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z “Our people say that after aku flies, it will still fall to the toad,” Father Amadi said. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z It’s like watching someone stir plastic toads in an unlit caldron. Review: Bill Clegg’s ‘Did You Ever Have a Family’ Heaps One Tragedy Upon Another 2015-09-08T04:00:00Z There are no fish to harm, although I like to encourage garter snakes, newts and toads. Why I don’t need Roundup in my garden 2016-05-17T04:00:00Z This weekend artists from Pumpkin Sculpt USA will address “The Toad and Tarantula Mystery,” using their talents to illustrate the intriguingly symbiotic relationship between the narrow-mouthed toad and this type of spider. Spare Times for Children for Oct. 16-22 2015-10-15T04:00:00Z Watchtree Nature Reserve, near Carlisle, offers walks in dense woodland populated with hare and deer, as well as frogs, toads and newts, if you look carefully enough. Great parks and green spaces in the UK: readers’ travel tips 2019-08-22T04:00:00Z In “Follow me, Jodel!” an ugly toad aids our hero in performing two difficult tasks. A newly discovered trove of unknown fairy tales: ‘The Turnip Princess’ 2015-02-25T05:00:00Z So it ends up with a Nixon who is three parts Hannibal the Cannibal and one part Baron Greenback, the supervillain toad from Danger Mouse. Far from unimpeachable 2010-06-03T11:40:00Z What happens after the prince kisses the toad and is rewarded with the woman of his dreams? Not Lost in Translation: Provocative Foreign Fiction 2019-11-29T05:00:00Z Right now, the brightest light in the neighborhood is a mom and pop, the Sarah and Henji show, with a cameo by sugar toads. Review | Queen’s English brings Hong Kong’s sizzle to Columbia Heights 2019-07-09T04:00:00Z All toads are frogs, but not all frogs are toads, say naturalists. Frogs and toads: What’s the difference? 2021-05-03T04:00:00Z Joplin was like the girl in the fairy tale who, every time she opens her mouth, out hops a toad. A New Biography of Janis Joplin Captures the Pain and Soul of an Adventurous Life 2019-10-25T04:00:00Z A giant, man-eating toad caught a fisherman and was about to eat him when the fisherman offered to bring him fish instead. Style Invitational Week 1383: Questionable Journalism 2020-05-07T04:00:00Z That was when he got knocked over by the towering toad that whacked him with a rusty sword. The Book of Mormon’s foggy origins 2012-08-12T16:01:00Z “Looks like the toad overestimated the height of his living room ceiling,” Margo smirks to Todd, who chuckles at the comically oversized tree their weird neighbor hauled home on top of his station wagon. Sympathy for Todd and Margo: Clark Griswold’s childless yuppie scum neighbors are holiday heroes 2016-11-25T05:00:00Z The accompanying illustration, however, shows a slanting row of identical women — they resemble accordioned paper cutouts — who hold out toads to a sharp-nosed man about to dive off a kitchen chair. Review | A plump, Victorian gentleman who was so very pleasant to know 2018-04-11T04:00:00Z She could just as easily be speaking of the other boroughs too, as frogs, toads, snakes and salamanders all have homes there. Spare Times for Children for May 24-30 2013-05-23T22:07:57Z The resulting portrait was of the “bottled spider,” the “bunch-backed toad” as a man who had taken thorough inventory of the limitations of his body and transformed perceived weaknesses into weapons. No Matter the Role, Antony Sher Made Soaring Seem Possible 2021-12-06T05:00:00Z You don’t get warts if you handle a toad. Frogs and toads: What’s the difference? 2021-05-03T04:00:00Z Is he the killer on the road whose brain is squirming like a toad, as Jim Morrison once famously put it? How psychopaths take over 2012-10-13T17:00:00Z Try the Chesapeake Bay sugar toads — a puffer fish, fried and spiked with pink peppercorns — with a hard cider or piquette from Old Westminster Winery in Maryland. 10 Reasons Washington Is a Great Restaurant City 2019-10-29T04:00:00Z I grew up on my parents' sugar cane farm in New South Wales, but koalas are pretty difficult to find there; it was more cane toads and cicadas. Evie Wyld: My desktop 2013-05-07T16:31:00Z Frogs jump quickly, while toads have glands behind their eyes that secrete a bad-tasting fluid. Spare Times for Children for May 24-30 2013-05-23T22:07:57Z This is the only version with the line about “imaginary gardens with real toads in them.” The Marianne Moore Revival 2016-04-13T04:00:00Z There was the story of Alberta Jackson, bitten by a harbor rat and saved by a backwoods auntie who used the sliced-open body of a special toad to draw the toxins from the wound. Patter and Patois 2015-08-03T04:00:00Z The batter can be turned into puffy pizza bases, fluffy wraps and impressive toad in the holes. A brief history of Yorkshire puddings 2022-12-19T05:00:00Z SAT Giant pumpkin weigh-off, pony rides, toad races, carnival games, harvest food, music, talk about bats, display of giant vegetables, big sunflowers and pumpkins grown by children, 9 a.m.-5 p.m. Community calendar: festivals, fairs and more 2016-09-22T04:00:00Z Hull is to be inundated with a plague of toads this summer, in celebration of the life and work of the city's most famous son, Philip Larkin. Hull to mark 25th anniversary of Larkin's death with giant model toads 2010-05-12T16:04:00Z Who shot the rollicking images of an inchlong pebble toad rolling like a small stone down a mountainside in Venezuela? Television Review | 'Life': On Discovery, Wonders of Nature, With Oprah Winfrey 2010-03-19T23:31:00Z Fried sugar toads, a puffer fish found in the waters off the Mid-Atlantic coast, at Queen’s English. 10 Reasons Washington Is a Great Restaurant City 2019-10-29T04:00:00Z “The Eastern spotted skunks have learned that if they flip the toad over and kill it,” attacking its belly, “they won’t get that bad taste,” she explained. Spare Times for Children for May 24-30 2013-05-23T22:07:57Z It sounded like mutant toads belching on a broken assembly line. Daniel Kramer: Carmen, I've cracked you 2011-01-12T21:31:00Z You may remember Vernon, a toad, from Stead’s “A Home for Bird.” Brief Tales for New Readers and Little Listeners From Philip Stead and More 2018-06-29T04:00:00Z Tell that to the mastodon, the bison, to little unassuming creatures like the Wyoming toad. How one man died so a whale might live 2018-06-20T04:00:00Z All focus on the title characters, a friendly frog and his rather more curmudgeonly toad friend. Jim Henson Company to bring Arnold Lobel's Frog and Toad to the big screen 2012-06-11T15:06:49Z Yet another argument for choosing not to be a power-tripping, egocentric toad: You get to call people whatever you want. Carolyn Hax: What’s in a name (or its pronunciation)? 2015-04-29T04:00:00Z Michaux’s example was very much on my mind as I sought to render my most challenging trip: smoking the toad. How Does a Writer Put a Drug Trip Into Words? 2018-12-24T05:00:00Z She cleans the apartment where she stays and feeds André and Natasha "toad in the hole" while also doling out advice about life and work, while nudging them to give in to their mutual attraction. Lesley Manville is endearing in "Mrs. Harris Goes to Paris," a feel-good couture fairy tale 2022-07-14T04:00:00Z “No one would ever desire to find a huge, warty toad in his dish.” | Maurizio Cattelan’s Shocking Window Displays at the Palais de Tokyo 2013-06-21T20:38:54Z She will visit the beach at night when natterjack toads are breeding, but she has no interest in the semi-rural sex games of her neighbours. Strands – A Year of Discoveries on the Beach by Jean Sprackland – review 2012-07-27T21:45:12Z Gohmert looked like a toad, but a part of me wondered whether we’d finally start getting somewhere, unpacking the context behind a series of ill-advised, boneheaded texts. Perspective | Talking honestly about Peter Strzok’s affair would have saved that whole bonkers hearing 2018-07-13T04:00:00Z Yet many poets, Virgil not the least of them, struck gold in the pastoral play-pen – reminding us, perhaps, of Marianne Moore's "imaginary gardens with real toads in them". Poem of the week: Lycidas by John Milton 2010-09-06T15:30:00Z But toads’ predators have evolved too, Ms. Hoffman said. Spare Times for Children for May 24-30 2013-05-23T22:07:57Z On the back of a fierce-looking raven, a shaman figure exchanges a torrent of vision-inducing fluid, mouth to mouth, with a tiny toad. Browsing at Metro Curates and the Ceramics and Glass Fair 2015-01-22T05:00:00Z This is not an agreement with the radioactive pile-on from right-wing toads and goblins celebrating Goldberg's flight from Twitter, by the way. Whoopi Goldberg has taken flight from Twitter. But how much does her departure matter? 2022-11-10T05:00:00Z For centuries, of course, that has been the norm; mostly the role has been played by actors sporting more-or-less absurd humps, lumps, prostheses and braces to simulate the “bunch-back’d toad” described in the text. Review: Danai Gurira Makes a Sleek Supervillain of Richard III 2022-07-11T04:00:00Z Frogs and toads seem to blink when eating because their eyes are pulled inward briefly, helping push food down their throats. Frogs and toads: What’s the difference? 2021-05-03T04:00:00Z In this, she receives great help from Mr. Friedel, whose portrayal of Kleist — with his already-dead eyes, hunched shoulders and uncomfortably stiff formality — can bring to mind a Beatrix Potter illustration of a gentleman toad. Review: ‘Amour Fou,’ About the Woman in a Poet’s Suicide Pact 2015-03-17T04:00:00Z The same ambivalence infuses the ever-surprising sentences that fall from her mouth like jewels and toads in a fairy tale. Review: Phoebe Waller-Bridge Gives New York a Fabulous ‘Fleabag’ 2019-03-08T05:00:00Z American artist Hiro's elegant Harper's Bazaar image of a small owl clutching a jeweled toad elevated creatures big and small to fashion-model status. Creatures feature in Getty Museum's photography show 'In Focus: Animalia' 2015-05-29T04:00:00Z The toad agreed under one condition: It couldn’t be just any fish, but seven silver hake from the Pacific Ocean. Style Invitational Week 1383: Questionable Journalism 2020-05-07T04:00:00Z “Of course it’s ridiculous to play a toad,” she said. On the Runway Blog: From Isabella Rossellini, Creature Moms 2013-05-12T12:00:38Z The highlight of 1927 was a wallet in toad skin and silver. | Miuccia Prada’s Circle of Influence 2013-05-27T13:00:48Z I’m not suggesting these are such great metaphors, but they were the first to come to mind as consciousness reknitted itself once the effects of the toad venom began to fade. How Does a Writer Put a Drug Trip Into Words? 2018-12-24T05:00:00Z If any fish deserves more face time in Washington, it’s the sugar toad. Review | Queen’s English brings Hong Kong’s sizzle to Columbia Heights 2019-07-09T04:00:00Z They are the progeny of American toads, and soon will emerge in hordes. At the Mount Cuba Center, native plants flourish in their natural setting 2015-05-13T04:00:00Z Thumbelina is kidnapped from the woman who grows her in a tulip from a grain of barley and nearly coerced into marriages with, sequentially, a toad and a mole. Audiobooks for Summer Trips With the Kids 2018-05-28T04:00:00Z In all the works the creatures — nightingales, turtles, toads and sheep — tended toward the anthropomorphic, sometimes cutely and sometimes eerily. Music Review: Music to Echo Nature?s Sounds and Voices 2011-05-29T21:22:13Z Two points are awarded for throwing a toad in the hole, with one point awarded for landing it on the lead table. Horses throw toads to win quirky British pub championship 2018-04-20T04:00:00Z If I was to create an imaginary garden I wanted the toads in it to be real. Margaret Atwood on What ‘The Handmaid’s Tale’ Means in the Age of Trump 2017-03-10T05:00:00Z The toads will eat slugs and in turn be eaten by snakes. At the Mount Cuba Center, native plants flourish in their natural setting 2015-05-13T04:00:00Z "Give me your arm, old toad; / Help me down Cemetery Road," he concludes. Hull to mark 25th anniversary of Larkin's death with giant model toads 2010-05-12T16:04:00Z But he should definitely make a close study of at least one aspect of Mr. Spacey’s star turn as Shakespeare’s “poisonous bunch-backed toad.” Theater Review: Kevin Spacey?s ?Richard III,? Staged by Sam Mendes - Review 2012-01-19T03:01:14Z “I had to kiss a lot of toads to get my prince,” she says. Ann Belkov, a 75-year old first-time bride, met her late-in-life love Jerry Lewis on a blind date. 2015-01-08T05:00:00Z Critters paraded past, from a roadrunner with a beefy toad dangling from its beak to a bold foursome of wild turkeys. Texas’ best-kept secret? A 120-mile-long canyon that’s grand in its own right. 2016-10-20T04:00:00Z Scenes are even narrated in verse: A young Botch “evaded toad and frog to scuttle-crawl between holding ponds / flop-plopped into water deft of fin / mud clear as bright sun / cavorted with others of his kind.” ‘Annihilation’ Author Jeff VanderMeer Delivers Fresh Horrors 2019-12-03T05:00:00Z “What is a ‘toad in the hole’?” she asked, laughing. Whistling as an Art Almost Died Off. Can Molly Lewis Keep It Alive? 2021-06-30T04:00:00Z But by taking time to observe, you’ll find that frogs and toads are amazing amphibians. Frogs and toads: What’s the difference? 2021-05-03T04:00:00Z People think the episode titled "Pollywog" meaning tadpole a.k.a. baby toad will shed some light on this one. The 10 Most Fascinating Theories About 'Stranger Things' Season 2 2017-10-13T04:00:00Z Because the Japanese word for “toad” is a homophone for the phrase “return home,” netsuke of toads on sandals became a beloved souvenir for travelers, including those visiting the important Ise Jingu shrine. No pockets? No problem. See how Japanese men carried personal items on their kimonos. 2017-03-10T05:00:00Z Mr. Schrock had been hiking at night recently to beat the heat, and found the trail crisscrossed by mice, toads and other small creatures. Heat, Water, Fire: How Climate Change Is Transforming the Pacific Crest Trail 2022-08-31T04:00:00Z While any leftover batter could also be used to make a toad in the hole with turkey and gravy — or even topped with cranberries and ice cream — it is Christmas after all. A brief history of Yorkshire puddings 2022-12-19T05:00:00Z What happens next is gruesome yet oddly fascinating, like a toad describing what it was like to be hypnotized and eaten by a snake. Review | A ‘Talented Mr. Ripley’ pursues literary fame in ‘A Ladder to the Sky’ 2018-11-12T05:00:00Z There is Gladys Mitchell with her fascinating Mrs Bradley, ugly as a toad and armed with the latest up-to-date theories of psychology. Agatha Christie: why I got fed up with Poirot 2012-09-28T21:55:06Z That frogs and toads shouldn’t be trusted with basic garden work? “Frog and Toad”: An Amphibious Celebration of Same-Sex Love 2016-05-31T04:00:00Z In this episode, Mr. Morris investigates Bufo alvarius, a toad in the Sonoran Desert whose skin exudes a psychoactive substance. What’s On TV Tuesday: Greta Gerwig on ‘The Daily Show’ and ‘Survival in the Skies’ 2017-11-28T05:00:00Z Each day this weekend, from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m., they will make masks of hibernating creatures — bears, bats, toads and hedgehogs — or models of their dens, while listening to related tales. For Children Listings for Jan. 29-Feb. 4 2016-01-28T05:00:00Z The companionship of birds, toads and other wild creatures is there for you to enjoy, even in a city garden. The healing powers of the earth 2015-04-22T04:00:00Z Probably the easiest way to tell the difference between a frog from a toad is by looking at the hind legs and how they move. Frogs and toads: What’s the difference? 2021-05-03T04:00:00Z It’s the story of Limpy, an Australian cane toad who tries to bond with humans so they stop running over his kind. KidsPost Summer Book Club: ‘Chomp’ 2016-07-19T04:00:00Z I would like to extend a personal apology to all toads. An Award-Winning Debut Novel About Innocence Shattered Offers Terror and Solace 2020-09-08T04:00:00Z Giant toad sculptures will be placed on a trail around the city in an attempt to "brighten up working days and holidays" for local residents and visitors. Hull to mark 25th anniversary of Larkin's death with giant model toads 2010-05-12T16:04:00Z Puffer fish, also known as sugar toads, were Bryan’s idea; ripe banana in the accompanying tartar sauce was Michael’s notion. Review | At two hotel restaurants, there’s room for improvement 2020-01-07T05:00:00Z The winsome little buffalo and his loyal toad pal are the heart of the show. At New York Musical Theater Festival, a Video Game Sendup, Gospel Music and More 2015-07-13T04:00:00Z Galveston the hedgehog keeps their numbers down, as do two toads, Lane and Courtney, but it’s a losing battle. Untamed 2016-12-17T05:00:00Z In "Mammas," Rossellini dresses as a mother spider, wasp, hamster, toad, cuckoo, dunnock, oil beetle, piping plover and cichlid fish to show how each brings her young into the world. 'Mammas' is study in maternal instinct 2013-05-07T12:51:08Z In the end I organized my account of the toad trip around those two metaphors: the rocket and the Big Bang. How Does a Writer Put a Drug Trip Into Words? 2018-12-24T05:00:00Z ‘Another world is colliding with this one,’ said the toad. ‘The Shepherd’s Crown’ review: The final Discworld novel 2015-08-28T04:00:00Z Van den Berg remembers that when she was in college “I came into my apartment to find a toad the size of a dinner plate sitting, stone cold dead, in the fruit bowl.” Jeff VanderMeer on the beauty and weirdness of Florida 2016-07-22T04:00:00Z Or the exhibition of his belongings, which includes his razors, pet toad collection and "trademark" glasses. The real Larkin 2010-06-26T23:04:00Z People said I looked like Shakespeare's "bunch-backed toad", as his mother calls him. Richard III: Shakespearean actors rake over the remains 2013-02-04T19:00:02Z In “Three Armies on the Somme,” military historian William Philpott speaks of an airman’s view of the Verdun battlefield, describing it akin to “the humid skin of a monstrous toad.” How poppies, strong and fragile, became a symbol of WWI devastation 2018-11-11T05:00:00Z Frogs and toads shed their skin frequently and eat it. Frogs and toads: What’s the difference? 2021-05-03T04:00:00Z Which dramatist said in 2004 that the subject of the Iraq war was “sitting in front of us like a great toad in the road”? Iraq on stage ? quiz 2011-07-21T07:00:22Z On a cool autumn day, a frog and a toad awake in their separate houses to find that their yards are filled with fallen leaves. “Frog and Toad”: An Amphibious Celebration of Same-Sex Love 2016-05-31T04:00:00Z On any given night, sometimes on the same channel or even the same program, a gorgeous butterfly, a poisonous toad, a heroic doggie and a ravenous hippo may all come bursting out of your set. Television: Animal Shows Are Taking Over TV 2010-04-21T22:01:00Z To borrow Marianne Moore’s description of poems as “imaginary gardens with real toads in them,” Bynum offers her reader inventively landscaped, beautifully manicured gardens teeming with rewardingly warty toads. Dreams and Waking Life Blur in a New Story Collection 2020-09-01T04:00:00Z In springtime when tulips are at peak flowering, nights here are dominated by chattering natterjack toads. Chasing Rembrandt’s Tulips on Two Wheels 2019-04-22T04:00:00Z The waters are also home to trout, catfish, Pyrenean newts, salamanders and a variety of frogs and toads. Different strokes: wild swimming in Spain 2016-04-10T04:00:00Z All the usual suspects are making an appearance, including mice on their mice organ, Gabriel the toad, Madeleine the rag doll and Professor Yaffle. Edinburgh festival: 10 of the best shows and events for kids and families 2011-08-05T09:55:01Z For animal lovers, there is a menagerie of porcelain figurines: a toad, a stag, an ox, rabbits, puppies and more than a dozen cranes. A Collection of Many ‘Things’ Comes on the Auction Market 2022-10-21T04:00:00Z While in the libretto, the dwarf Alberich briefly turns himself into a lowly toad, that is here just a metaphor; it’s mentioned in the text, but nothing happens. Review: A New ‘Ring’ at Bayreuth Does Wagner Without Magic 2022-08-07T04:00:00Z Wotton remains fork-tongued even as he crumbles into old age, his eyes still glittering in his ruined face like an ancient poisonous toad. The Picture of Dorian Gray – review 2012-10-07T15:33:26Z My notes on the toad did exhibit some of Michaux’s incoherence, though even in that initial attempt at fashioning an account I found myself reaching helplessly for metaphor. How Does a Writer Put a Drug Trip Into Words? 2018-12-24T05:00:00Z Richard III, also known as that “poisonous, hunchbacked toad” and “hound of hell.” Review: Shakespeare’s Take on the Game of Thrones 2016-11-04T04:00:00Z Macmillan, when she reminds him that he was not only first on the bandwagon in the Suez crisis, but also first off, looks as if he has swallowed a pond full of toads. 'She is the Queen, whereas you are Joe Shmuck': Clive James on The Crown 2018-01-20T05:00:00Z Tooth of corpse and juice of toad, boil and bubble until brain explodes. ‘The Possession of Michael King,’ About a Game of Dare 2014-08-21T04:00:00Z Ms. Lee, accompanied now by the plucked-string noises of toads, dragged her end pin through the gravel and backed up a hill into the darkness of the trees. Dance Review: Michelle Boulé and Okkyung Lee Perform at Mount Tremper Arts 2013-07-07T21:51:14Z Marianne Moore’s famous observation about poetry — that it cultivates “imaginary gardens with real toads in them” — applies to Ms. Ryan’s work too. Books of The Times: Stealthy Insights Amid Short Phrases 2010-03-05T00:07:00Z Though Shakespeare called him “that foul, bunch-back’d toad,” Richard III probably just had scoliosis. Review: In a Teenage Take on ‘Richard III,’ Now Is the Prom of Our Discontent 2018-06-21T04:00:00Z Not so much a daffodil as a toad lily. Mortified: Reading old diary entries in front of an audience is only part of the challenge We saw photographs of a toad and a mouse, a pig and a puppy, an owl and a fox. Isaac Oliver: Reading as Cabaret 2016-08-22T04:00:00Z Caiman eyes shine at the edge of the lagoon and frogs and toads of all colours and sizes add to the howler monkeys, turtles and toucans we’d seen earlier in the day. It’s a jungle out there: Costa Rica with kids 2018-10-21T04:00:00Z Frog eggs are in clusters, while toad eggs form long narrow strands. Frogs and toads: What’s the difference? 2021-05-03T04:00:00Z Sugar toads are named such partly because they’re as attractive as, well, toads. Review | Queen’s English brings Hong Kong’s sizzle to Columbia Heights 2019-07-09T04:00:00Z “Sweet are the uses of adversity,” Duke Senior says, “which, like the toad, ugly and venomous, wears yet a precious jewel in its head.” Review: An ‘As You Like It’ That Is More Prose Than Poetry 2017-09-28T04:00:00Z Dr. Rose also favored skeletons, ghosts, fungi, toads, snakes, rats and mollusks. Antiques: Vintage Thomas Molesworth Furniture Heads to Auction 2013-09-05T20:00:56Z But most of the poison boils off when the toad is poached in urine.” Theater Review: ‘The Explorers Club’ Pokes Fun at a 19th-Century Sanctum 2013-06-21T02:00:01Z This is so many flavors of crazy that it tastes like licking a toad. Review | Can anyone figure out what’s happening in Ned Beauman’s new comic novel? 2018-02-20T05:00:00Z He drew back, as though I were passing him an unwanted bill or possibly a horned toad. In Fiction, Martin Amis Summons His Literary Friends and Role Models 2020-10-26T04:00:00Z But then, whimsy has been baked into the English, like toad in the hole or bubble and squeak, for a long time, perhaps as far back as the 16th century. In Praise of Whimsical English Design 2018-11-20T05:00:00Z This kitten-size marsupial had developed a taste for cane toads, imported from Central America decades ago to control beetles that were decimating sugarcane. This Mexican biologist is fighting to preserve his country’s biodiversity—and his own legacy 2023-10-11T04:00:00Z Officials say it will help protect the Wyoming toad, an endangered amphibian, while also helping conserve other species including the white-tailed prairie dog and migratory birds. New national wildlife refuges in Tennessee, Wyoming created to protect toads, bats, salamanders 2023-10-11T04:00:00Z Common toad tadpoles have varied diets of algae, vegetation, and tiny swimming invertebrates. Wildlife Photographer of the Year: Horseshoe crab wins gold 2023-10-10T04:00:00Z When it comes to breeding, frogs and toads tend to use one of two reproductive strategies. Tired of aggressively amorous males? These female frogs play dead 2023-10-10T04:00:00Z They can also excrete toxins called lucibufagins, that makes them taste unappealing to other animals like toads and other firefly predators. Fireflies are disappearing, but we may not know enough about these insects to save them 2023-09-21T04:00:00Z The nausea left an impression: When released into the wild, the quolls were more likely to avoid bigger, lethal toads. This Mexican biologist is fighting to preserve his country’s biodiversity—and his own legacy 2023-10-11T04:00:00Z Some contestants accessorized their snorkels, masks and flippers with more flamboyant touches — one carried a giant plastic toad on their head, another had a bathing cap adorned with flowers. Competitors get down and dirty at Britain’s bog snorkeling championships 2023-08-27T04:00:00Z In a plethora of cases, activists demanded that permits for the expansion be overturned, asserting that builders had destroyed sensitive dune reserves where the rare natterjack toad and sand lizard live and breed. Dutch Grand Prix 2023: Zandvoort imposes car ban on travelling F1 fans 2023-08-26T04:00:00Z The Griffith Park forest occupies 1,000 square feet and has drawn all manner of insects, lizards, birds and ground squirrels, along with western toads that journeyed from the Los Angeles River, Pakradouni said. Tiny forests with big benefits 2023-08-25T04:00:00Z Deeds said the offer represents a “consensus view” that Senate Democrats “had to swallow some toads to get to.” Virginia Senate Democrats make another counteroffer in long-running budget talks 2023-08-11T04:00:00Z The protocol included ibogaine, a psychoactive substance derived from African plants, and 5-MeO-DMT, a psychedelic made with secretions of a toad, he said. Minneapolis Mayor to Loosen Enforcement of Psychedelics 2023-07-21T04:00:00Z The area is the only place the toad is known to exist on earth. US to reopen review of Nevada geothermal plant near endangered toad while legal battle is on hold 2023-07-14T04:00:00Z Among the species that would benefit is the Wyoming toad, which is perhaps most famous for inhabiting the wild only in a single sanctuary in Mortensen Lake National Wildlife Refuge. EPA announces new pesticide protection measure applied to 27 animal species: Report 2023-06-26T04:00:00Z To get to the forest, the toads had to clamber up a concrete embankment, traverse a bike trail, venture down another dirt embankment and cross a horse trail. Tiny forests with big benefits 2023-08-25T04:00:00Z Other salamanders, at least 7600 frogs and toads, as well as chameleons and other lizards have independently evolved other extreme forms of this quick-fire “ballistic” feeding. How the tongue shaped life on Earth 2023-05-24T04:00:00Z Frogs, toads, and newts all hatch from the eggs as larvae with external gills but it will take some time for the amphibians to interact outside with pulmonary respiration. Fundamentals of Biology 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z Fish and Wildlife Service declared the Dixie Valley toad endangered on an emergency basis that April and then made the listing permanent in December. US to reopen review of Nevada geothermal plant near endangered toad while legal battle is on hold 2023-07-14T04:00:00Z How these specialized cells come together to form organs such as the heart, lung, or skin in organisms like the toad shown in Figure 1.2 will be discussed later. Concepts of Biology 2013-04-25T00:00:00Z Carpets of gold, burrowing toads and fairy shrimp all depend on vernal pools—habitats that, most of the time, do not exist. Surviving in the Ephemeral Pools of Life 2023-05-03T04:00:00Z With the help of Northumberland County Council, 10 temporary "toad crossing" road signs were put up around the area to warn drivers of the additional hazard. 'People around here call me Toad Girl' 2023-04-09T04:00:00Z Other animals such as pangolins and Tepui toads can also spin themselves into a cartwheel, but the contortion isn’t widespread in mammals, let alone reptiles. Snake does cartwheel to escape danger 2023-04-04T04:00:00Z The opponents say pumping hot water from beneath the earth’s surface to generate carbon-free power would adversely affect the levels and temperatures of surface water critical to the survival of the toad. US to reopen review of Nevada geothermal plant near endangered toad while legal battle is on hold 2023-07-14T04:00:00Z Fire-bellied toads produce toxins that make them distasteful to their potential predators. Concepts of Biology 2013-04-25T00:00:00Z Ormat Technologies said in a 60-day notice of its intent to sue the Interior Department’s Fish and Wildlife Service that the listing of the Dixie Valley toad in December was illegal. Geothermal developer wants to delist endangered Nevada toad 2023-03-24T04:00:00Z For the latest series, Katie says filming a certain toad scene required a lot of patience. David Attenborough's Wild Isles: hot flasks and finding toads 2023-03-10T05:00:00Z It is rather bizarre that our bodies make trace amounts of a chemical that is also created by toads to serve as a psychedelic venom. New research illuminates how the human brain creates its own psychedelic drugs 2023-02-20T05:00:00Z The Fish and Wildlife Service concluded in its listing decision the project posed the single biggest threat to the toad and that “threatened species status is not appropriate because the threat of extinction is imminent.” US to reopen review of Nevada geothermal plant near endangered toad while legal battle is on hold 2023-07-14T04:00:00Z In Mesoamerican myth, the ancient monster Cipactli, part crocodilian, part fish or toad, floats in primeval waters, like the Hindu snake of residue, Sheshanaga. Why the Chimera Is the Monster for Our Uncertain Age 2023-02-16T05:00:00Z “The toad does not meet the definitional standard for a threatened — let alone endangered — species, and the service failed to base its decision on the best scientific and commercial data available,” Reno-based Ormat said. Geothermal developer wants to delist endangered Nevada toad 2023-03-24T04:00:00Z In hindsight though, the toads are something Katie can laugh about. David Attenborough's Wild Isles: hot flasks and finding toads 2023-03-10T05:00:00Z If you think about it, it is rather bizarre that our bodies make trace amounts of a chemical that is also created by toads to serve as a psychedelic venom. New research illuminates how the human brain creates its own psychedelic drugs 2023-02-20T05:00:00Z “I mean, a toad. I mean, someone that looks like a thumb,” Chrisley, 53, said on his podcast several weeks ago in conversation with his 26-year-old son, Chase. The rise and fall of the Chrisleys, the latest reality stars to go to prison 2023-01-18T05:00:00Z When she picked up the creature, she was holding a monster cane toad that she believes could be the largest of its kind in the world. All hail, ‘Toadzilla’: Giant toad in Australia could be world’s largest 2023-01-20T05:00:00Z The service concluded in its listing decision that the geothermal project posed the single biggest threat to the toad and that “threatened species status is not appropriate because the threat of extinction is imminent.” Geothermal developer wants to delist endangered Nevada toad 2023-03-24T04:00:00Z But we realised toads like to migrate in darkness, so we were filming till three in the morning. David Attenborough's Wild Isles: hot flasks and finding toads 2023-03-10T05:00:00Z Cane toads were introduced to Australia in 1935 to control cane beetles and other pests but their population exploded and with no natural predators they have become a threat to Australian species, Nolan said. Australian park rangers say 'Toadzilla' could be world's biggest toad 2023-01-20T05:00:00Z A cane toad so giant wildlife officers thought it was fake has been found in a north Australian rainforest. Australia's 'Toadzilla': Record-breaking cane toad found in Queensland 2023-01-19T05:00:00Z “I reached down and grabbed the cane toad and couldn’t believe how big and heavy it was,” she said in a statement issued by the Queensland Department of Environment and Science. All hail, ‘Toadzilla’: Giant toad in Australia could be world’s largest 2023-01-20T05:00:00Z Last year, for instance, construction on another Nevada geothermal project was halted after federal wildlife managers declared the rare Dixie Valley toad, found only in springs near the power plant’s footprint, as an endangered species. Burning Man touts sustainability. Now it’s suing to block clean energy. 2023-01-13T05:00:00Z As well as toads, Wild Isles includes dramatic footage of eagles, orca whales and seals. David Attenborough's Wild Isles: hot flasks and finding toads 2023-03-10T05:00:00Z A sporadic character in Matt Groening’s animated science fiction sitcom, “Futurama,” the Hypnotoad is a toad with glowing, oscillating eyes that emits a droning hum as it hypnotizes people and animals. As opponents croaked, TCU’s Hypnotoad became a viral sensation 2023-01-09T05:00:00Z The "monster" specimen is six times bigger than the average toad, weighs 2.7kg, and could break a world record. Australia's 'Toadzilla': Record-breaking cane toad found in Queensland 2023-01-19T05:00:00Z But upon further consideration, Gray said, she thought that instead of a Connie, the cane toad looked more like a “Godzilla,” the fictional monster that wreaks havoc on Japan. All hail, ‘Toadzilla’: Giant toad in Australia could be world’s largest 2023-01-20T05:00:00Z They include the black bear, Western scrub jay, California flannel brush, California bumble bee, California halibut, Northern elephant seal, Dungeness crab, California bay tree, Western spadefoot toad, and the endangered black abalone. Geneticists are advancing the cause of conservation with a new breed of sanctuary 2023-01-09T05:00:00Z Its government, a three-way coalition which includes Germany's Green Party, has already had to, as the Germans would say, swallow some toads. Lützerath: German coal mine stand off amid Ukraine war energy crunch 2023-01-08T05:00:00Z TCU receiver Quentin Johnston didn’t take note of the meme overload videos until a few games into the season, but when he did, he couldn’t help but take in the toad’s powers. All glory for TCU's playoff run goes to the Hypnotoad 2023-01-08T05:00:00Z "A cane toad that size will eat anything it can fit into its mouth," she said. Australia's 'Toadzilla': Record-breaking cane toad found in Queensland 2023-01-19T05:00:00Z While Toadzilla’s age is unclear, cane toads can live for up to 15 years in the wild, which made park officials think that “this one has been around for a long time.” All hail, ‘Toadzilla’: Giant toad in Australia could be world’s largest 2023-01-20T05:00:00Z Production of 5-MeO-DMT, a drug derived from toad venom, will more than quadruple, for example. Why 2023 will be a banner year for drug research 2022-12-30T05:00:00Z The dry conditions affected natterjack toads, whose shallow ponds for breeding dried up, and bats that had to be rescued in the heatwave. 2022 will be warmest year ever for UK, Met Office says 2022-12-28T05:00:00Z The dry conditions impacted natterjack toads, whose shallow ponds for breeding dried up, and bats that had to be rescued in the heatwave. UK weather extremes to become 'new normal', says National Trust 2022-12-28T05:00:00Z McKenzie’s team identified a strongly antifungal bacterium that is naturally found in the endangered toads’ Rocky Mountain habitat and in small quantities on their skin. Rare Animals’ Microbiomes Harbor Survival Secrets 2022-12-27T05:00:00Z Native to South America and mainland Central America, the cane toad was introduced into Queensland in 1935 to help control the cane beetle population. All hail, ‘Toadzilla’: Giant toad in Australia could be world’s largest 2023-01-20T05:00:00Z Instead, they carry a cocktail of psychoactive compounds such as muscimol and even bufotenine, which oddly enough is also secreted by desert toads. The strange, psychedelic history of Christmas 2022-12-15T05:00:00Z At that time, freshwater dolphins still swam in the Yangtze River, golden toads still hopped through the cloud forests of Costa Rica and there were more than two northern white rhinos alive. 50 Years After the Apollo 17 Mission, the Moon Looks Closer Than Ever 2022-12-14T05:00:00Z Other desert creatures like the Colorado River toads are also threatened by similar human-caused issues. California desert tortoises are hurtling toward extinction. Saving them won't be easy 2022-12-12T05:00:00Z The group showed in the lab that dousing toads in this probiotic microbe raised their ability to survive fungal infection by 40 percent. Rare Animals’ Microbiomes Harbor Survival Secrets 2022-12-27T05:00:00Z Cane toads, which have an average weight of almost three pounds, have been “remarkably successful in reproducing and spreading themselves,” according to National Geographic. All hail, ‘Toadzilla’: Giant toad in Australia could be world’s largest 2023-01-20T05:00:00Z A great spotted woodpecker from Kyiv garnered a community ID within minutes, a green toad from Crimea turned out to be a marsh frog. Can Humans Find Common Ground? Sure. Just Start With Sea Slugs and Bears. 2022-12-09T05:00:00Z The Yosemite toad moved from endangered to vulnerable, thanks to a comprehensive conservation plan that involved several government agencies, as well as local landholders, Hilton-Taylor says. As the World Scrambles to Halt Biodiversity Loss, ‘Things Are Getting Worse’ 2022-12-09T05:00:00Z That's because most sources of 5-MeO-DMT come from the Colorado River toads, which are increasingly facing stresses that could make their existence more challenging. For a certain class of purist toad lickers, synthetic toad venom just won't cut it 2022-12-08T05:00:00Z Next, McKenzie and her colleagues captured young wild toads and put them up in spa-like “water hotels” to bathe in the probiotic for 24 hours before release. Rare Animals’ Microbiomes Harbor Survival Secrets 2022-12-27T05:00:00Z The cane toad’s diet consists mainly of insects, but it will eat just about anything, including reptiles, birds and even small mammals. All hail, ‘Toadzilla’: Giant toad in Australia could be world’s largest 2023-01-20T05:00:00Z Only two species have been emergency-listed as federally endangered over the last 20 years: the Miami blue butterfly in 2011 and Nevada’s Dixie Valley toad earlier this year. As a sacred minnow nears extinction, Native Americans of Clear Lake call for bold plan 2022-12-06T05:00:00Z Other threats to the toad include groundwater pumping, agriculture, climate change, disease and predation from bullfrogs. Endangered listing for Nevada toad in geothermal power fight 2022-12-02T05:00:00Z The popularity of the drug has created a cottage industry of hobbyists and psychonauts who venture into the desert in search of these toads. For a certain class of purist toad lickers, synthetic toad venom just won't cut it 2022-12-08T05:00:00Z When the treated toads were recaptured, they had less disease compared with controls. Rare Animals’ Microbiomes Harbor Survival Secrets 2022-12-27T05:00:00Z Cane toads are also particularly dangerous to dogs that bite the amphibian and ingest the toxin. All hail, ‘Toadzilla’: Giant toad in Australia could be world’s largest 2023-01-20T05:00:00Z The front page of the ruling Communist Party's official People's Daily devoted its whole front page to Jiang, and carried a large picture of him wearing his trademark "toad" glasses. Chinese papers go black in mourning for late leader Jiang Zemin 2022-12-01T05:00:00Z Bureau of Land Management to modify the project to increase mitigation for the toad and reduce any threat to its survival. Endangered listing for Nevada toad in geothermal power fight 2022-12-02T05:00:00Z Indeed, the problem of toad poaching has become so severe that in late October, the U.S. For a certain class of purist toad lickers, synthetic toad venom just won't cut it 2022-12-08T05:00:00Z For years, social media platforms have tried to clamp down on toad- and frog-related messages. Chinese web users bypass censors to remember Jiang Zemin 2022-11-30T05:00:00Z Even with the excitement and curiosity surrounding the huge cane toad, the Queensland Department of Environment and Science announced on Twitter that Toadzilla was “euthanized due to the environmental damage they cause.” All hail, ‘Toadzilla’: Giant toad in Australia could be world’s largest 2023-01-20T05:00:00Z In his later years young fans celebrated him, tongue-in-cheek, with the nickname “toad.” Jiang Zemin, Leader Who Guided China Into Global Market, Dies at 96 2022-11-30T05:00:00Z “This ruling makes final the listing of the Dixie Valley toad,” the U.S. Endangered listing for Nevada toad in geothermal power fight 2022-12-02T05:00:00Z National Park Service issued a social media warning to the public telling them to stop "licking" the toads. For a certain class of purist toad lickers, synthetic toad venom just won't cut it 2022-12-08T05:00:00Z It has developed an "ingenious" method of eating one of the only animals Australians hate more - the cane toad, a toxic and pervasive pest. Australia: How 'bin chickens' learnt to wash poisonous cane toads 2022-11-24T05:00:00Z Toadzilla has now been taken to the Queensland Museum for further analysis on whether she is indeed the world’s largest recorded cane toad. All hail, ‘Toadzilla’: Giant toad in Australia could be world’s largest 2023-01-20T05:00:00Z They mocked his mannerisms and purported resemblance to a toad, while slyly celebrating his relative tolerance compared with his successors. Jiang Zemin, Leader Who Guided China Into Global Market, Dies at 96 2022-11-30T05:00:00Z National Park Service asks guests to please not to lick the toads. Foot found floating in Yellowstone hot spring belonged to 70-year-old L.A. man 2022-11-17T05:00:00Z The toad-poaching situation is a little strange for a few reasons, not least of which is that the toads are not active during October. For a certain class of purist toad lickers, synthetic toad venom just won't cut it 2022-12-08T05:00:00Z First introduced to Australia in the 1930s, cane toads have no natural predators in the country and have wrought havoc on native animal populations. Australia: How 'bin chickens' learnt to wash poisonous cane toads 2022-11-24T05:00:00Z The National Park Service has a few simple requests for its guests who want to enjoy the outdoors: pick up your trash, be mindful of your campfires and please don’t lick the Sonoran desert toads. Have fun outside, but please don't lick the hallucinogenic toads, National Park Service says 2022-11-09T05:00:00Z Harvesting of the toads for recreational drug use has affected populations in the past. Stop licking the trippy toxic toads, National Park Service tells tourists 2022-11-08T05:00:00Z The hallucinogenic toxin emitted by the Sonoran Desert toad can make you sick. Foot found floating in Yellowstone hot spring belonged to 70-year-old L.A. man 2022-11-17T05:00:00Z If not extracted correctly, the toads can be left defenseless against predators. For a certain class of purist toad lickers, synthetic toad venom just won't cut it 2022-12-08T05:00:00Z The toad's skin contains venom which it releases when threatened, causing most animals that come into contact with it to die quickly of a heart attack. Australia: How 'bin chickens' learnt to wash poisonous cane toads 2022-11-24T05:00:00Z They agency asked guests to not lick the toad’s potent toxin that carries hallucinogenic properties. Have fun outside, but please don't lick the hallucinogenic toads, National Park Service says 2022-11-09T05:00:00Z Message to tourists: Don’t put your mouth on the Sonoran Desert toad, also known as the Colorado River toad, for access to its psychedelic toxins, warns the National Park Service. Stop licking the trippy toxic toads, National Park Service tells tourists 2022-11-08T05:00:00Z Please stop: The National Park Service asks you not to lick the psychedelic toads. Your Election Day Guide 2022-11-08T05:00:00Z If too many toads are kept together in a terrarium for periodic milking, their close proximity can also spread fungal diseases. For a certain class of purist toad lickers, synthetic toad venom just won't cut it 2022-12-08T05:00:00Z "Ibis were flipping the toads about, throwing them in the air, and people just wondered what on earth they were doing," she told the BBC. Australia: How 'bin chickens' learnt to wash poisonous cane toads 2022-11-24T05:00:00Z Veterinarians warn pet owners that dogs and cats can die if they lick the toad’s toxins and do not receive immediate medical help. Have fun outside, but please don't lick the hallucinogenic toads, National Park Service says 2022-11-09T05:00:00Z The toxin secreted by the toad contains a psychedelic chemical, 5-MeO-DMT, that some users call the God molecule for its powerful hallucinatory effects. Stop licking the trippy toxic toads, National Park Service tells tourists 2022-11-08T05:00:00Z National Park Service has a request for visitors: Please don’t lick the toads. Your Tuesday Briefing 2022-11-08T05:00:00Z Ecologists have warned that this could have devastating impacts on toad populations. For a certain class of purist toad lickers, synthetic toad venom just won't cut it 2022-12-08T05:00:00Z "After this they would always either wipe the toads in the wet grass, or they would go down to a water source nearby, and they would rinse the toads out." Australia: How 'bin chickens' learnt to wash poisonous cane toads 2022-11-24T05:00:00Z While the National Park Service’s advice seems out of left field, this isn’t the first time a government agency has asked the public to fight the urge to lick a toad. Have fun outside, but please don't lick the hallucinogenic toads, National Park Service says 2022-11-09T05:00:00Z Most users provoke the stress response from the toad, dry the toxin into a crystal form and smoke it. Stop licking the trippy toxic toads, National Park Service tells tourists 2022-11-08T05:00:00Z Officials made the plea to help protect the Sonoran desert toad. Your Tuesday Briefing 2022-11-08T05:00:00Z One of F.I.V.E's tenets is that synthetic 5-MeO-DMT is the "ethical solution" to extracting toad venom. For a certain class of purist toad lickers, synthetic toad venom just won't cut it 2022-12-08T05:00:00Z She believes it is evidence of a "stress, wash and repeat" method that the birds have developed to rid the toads of their toxins before swallowing them whole. Australia: How 'bin chickens' learnt to wash poisonous cane toads 2022-11-24T05:00:00Z In 1990, the DEA warned Americans about the growing trend of toad-licking, but the concern at the time was centered on cane toads. Have fun outside, but please don't lick the hallucinogenic toads, National Park Service says 2022-11-09T05:00:00Z Regarding the Nov. 4 Politics & the Nation article, “A tribe and a toad halt a Nevada renewable power plant”: Opinion | We can’t rush renewable energy at the cost of biodiversity 2022-11-07T05:00:00Z Tempting as it may be, please don’t lick the toads. National Park Service Asks Visitors to Please Stop Licking Toads 2022-11-07T05:00:00Z Yet toad venom "purists," as they might be called, don't believe the synthetic stuff is as good as the "real" thing. For a certain class of purist toad lickers, synthetic toad venom just won't cut it 2022-12-08T05:00:00Z They would flip the toads on their back and rip out their insides, leaving the glands untouched. Australia: How 'bin chickens' learnt to wash poisonous cane toads 2022-11-24T05:00:00Z “Now, I don’t think this is going to be a great problem because people don’t go around licking toads as a habit.” Have fun outside, but please don't lick the hallucinogenic toads, National Park Service says 2022-11-09T05:00:00Z A geothermal energy plant in Dixie Valley, Nev., would be built on the ancestral lands of the Paiute and Shoshone people and would threaten the survival of the endangered Dixie Valley toad. Opinion | We can’t rush renewable energy at the cost of biodiversity 2022-11-07T05:00:00Z National Park Service made the plea last week to help protect the Sonoran desert toad, which secretes a toxin unlike any other found on the planet. National Park Service Asks Visitors to Please Stop Licking Toads 2022-11-07T05:00:00Z The theory is that natural toad venom yields a so-called "entourage effect," a phenomenon where different chemical compounds within a substance work together to produce a specific effect. For a certain class of purist toad lickers, synthetic toad venom just won't cut it 2022-12-08T05:00:00Z But this is the first time Prof Shine - who has studied toads for 20 years - has heard of birds using a method like this to eat them whole. Australia: How 'bin chickens' learnt to wash poisonous cane toads 2022-11-24T05:00:00Z The toad is native to the Sonoran desert, but also found in the lower Colorado River and in the southeast area of Imperial County bordering Arizona. Have fun outside, but please don't lick the hallucinogenic toads, National Park Service says 2022-11-09T05:00:00Z Filgueiras figured out a way to take the small toad skins and fuse them together, creating something large enough to sell. Giant, sustainable rainforest fish is now fashion in America 2022-11-04T04:00:00Z But maybe keep your tongue off the toads, the Park Service said in a cheeky Facebook post lined with puns. National Park Service Asks Visitors to Please Stop Licking Toads 2022-11-07T05:00:00Z "Yes, there might be some differences between synthetic and toad," Davis added. For a certain class of purist toad lickers, synthetic toad venom just won't cut it 2022-12-08T05:00:00Z "They've actually forced the cane toad to get rid of the toxin itself, they haven't had to mutilate it in any way. The cane toad is doing all the work for them." Australia: How 'bin chickens' learnt to wash poisonous cane toads 2022-11-24T05:00:00Z The study analyzed the effects of inhaling the vapor of dried toad secretion from the parotid gland, which is found near the toad’s eyes. Have fun outside, but please don't lick the hallucinogenic toads, National Park Service says 2022-11-09T05:00:00Z Experimenting with the new skins, Filgueiras found he was able to fix the many holes in the pirarucu leather using the same technique he had created for the toad leather. Giant, sustainable rainforest fish is now fashion in America 2022-11-04T04:00:00Z Demand for the toad’s secretion has boomed in recent years, with a growing retreat industry serving those seeking the psychedelic experience. National Park Service Asks Visitors to Please Stop Licking Toads 2022-11-07T05:00:00Z But as interest in 5-MeO-DMT grows, underground commercial markets are emerging, with clandestine toad milking farms springing up, some of them with connections to drug cartels. For a certain class of purist toad lickers, synthetic toad venom just won't cut it 2022-12-08T05:00:00Z Professor Shine and Ms Vincent both say it is a promising sign that native animals are learning to adapt to the toads, which are now estimated to number over 2 billion. Australia: How 'bin chickens' learnt to wash poisonous cane toads 2022-11-24T05:00:00Z Fish and Wildlife Service’s listing of the Dixie Valley toad in April as endangered on a temporary, emergency basis. New, unusual court bid in fight over endangered Nevada toad 2022-11-02T04:00:00Z So it was with Eduardo Filgueiras, a struggling guitarist whose family worked in an unusual business in Rio de Janeiro: They farmed toads. Giant, sustainable rainforest fish is now fashion in America 2022-11-04T04:00:00Z Licking the toads is not the way most people go about it. National Park Service Asks Visitors to Please Stop Licking Toads 2022-11-07T05:00:00Z Nonetheless, Brierre said that there are still purportedly "ethical" ways of extracting toad venom, such as wearing gloves and milking the toads infrequently. For a certain class of purist toad lickers, synthetic toad venom just won't cut it 2022-12-08T05:00:00Z And then there are animals like the ibis that have worked out how to eat toads safely, which could help bring the population back under control. Australia: How 'bin chickens' learnt to wash poisonous cane toads 2022-11-24T05:00:00Z The toad’s listing triggered requirements that the bureau consult with the Fish and Wildlife Service to ensure Ormat’s mitigation plan won’t harm the toad or its habitat in violation of the Endangered Species Act. New, unusual court bid in fight over endangered Nevada toad 2022-11-02T04:00:00Z Even smaller than that tiny species of perch, the endangered critter in Nevada is a quarter-sized toad found only in high-desert wetlands fed by underground springs on federal land. Rare toad fight similar to landmark endangered species case 2022-10-19T04:00:00Z |
| 随便看 |
英语例句辞典收录了117811条英语例句在线翻译词条，基本涵盖了全部常用单词及词组的例句翻译及用法，是英语学习的有利工具。