| 单词 | frog |
| 例句 | A frog grunted, making Matt almost drop the flashlight he carried. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z And when the frog broke the surface, its long golden hair shone in the sun. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z It wasn’t a ball at all, it was a frog, and McNab was on the mound cackling away, and the kid at the plate was bug-eyed. Maniac Magee 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z I was just as terrified as the frogs. The Witches 1983-10-27T00:00:00Z At dawn, a frog began croaking belligerently from the streambed. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z She would come walking down an aisle of rose petals, wearing a white rayon suit with frog closings that Mabelee was sewing for her. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z “Maybe half a day, maybe a whole day. Just ’til we get the frogs.” Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z Guards also allowed workers—about five thousand adult prisoners and a couple of hundred students from the camp’s secondary school—to catch fish and frogs from the river. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z The frog feared it would never become a princess. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z "We bring you gifts of fish and frog and fowl," he said. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z Entirely oblivious of what trucks can do to frogs. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z Nor would you know that inches below your feet, frogs are sleeping, their heartbeats down to once or twice per minute. Stargirl 2000-08-08T00:00:00Z “I want frogs and a baseball glove and a mom.” Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z Lane had started in on his frogs’ legs. Franny and Zooey 1961-09-14T00:00:00Z And of that frog that Dylan threw against the tree last year. The Thing About Jellyfish 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z “Yes. The basic one everybody knows. A frog does not run in the afternoon for nothing.” Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z Now there were no birds to sing, no squirrels to chitter, no frogs to croak, no fish to play in the forest pool. Terrible Things: An Allegory of the Holocaust 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z As promised in the list, she brought a Kurt Vonnegut book, Cat’s Cradle, and she read aloud to me, her soft voice mingling with the the frogs’ croaking and the grasshoppers landing softly around us. Looking for Alaska 2005-03-03T00:00:00Z If frogs were available, they would be here. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z These moments sprang from the others like frogs from children’s pockets. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z It sank into her body like a frog diving into a lake. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z After school, Twig invited me back to her house, which we figured we could get away with under the pretense of doing our frog lab reports. The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z Hermann von Helmholtz used one to measure the reaction time of a frog. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z Coming from a farming family where everyone, including the women, worked beside the men in the fields, we were not afraid of mice or frogs. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z The frog seemed tired after his morning in the swing. Charlotte's Web 1952-10-15T00:00:00Z Disgusted that the Slytherins had lost, he had tried to get everyone laughing at how a wide-mouthed tree frog would be replacing Harry as Seeker next. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z The younger kids, because we are closer to the ground, catch frogs and grasshoppers for food. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z The frog jumped off the sill, back into the night. Crenshaw 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z This was not a fairy tale, this was the real, the adult world in which frogs did not address princesses, and the only messages were the ones that people sent. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z “I wish I was a frog. Or a eel!” Great Expectations 1861-08-01T00:00:00Z As one California Highway Patrol Officer said, “It’s sheer numbers....You’ve got to kiss a lot of frogs before you find a prince.” The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z She was not afraid of frogs or snakes or the other things that demon girls were supposed to be afraid of. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z The swamp’s stillness was disturbed only by the croaking of a frog and the splash as it leaped into a puddle nearby. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z “I still need to know which young man hid frogs in my piano! Jojo, was it you?” Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z “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 None of us want to sit inside when the late autumn is calling to us and frogs are finally feeling brave enough to hop across our yard. Brown Girl Dreaming 2014-08-28T00:00:00Z And at the end of the month the frogs stopped coming, leaving the scholar with the white silk and silver ingots. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z She can make stones jump about like frogs and she can make tongues of flame go flickering across the surface of the water. The Witches 1983-10-27T00:00:00Z From the pond, in shrill chorus, came the voices of hundreds of little frogs. Charlotte's Web 1952-10-15T00:00:00Z It’s a bad voice, even for a guy, like a frog croaking. It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z A taxi which brought a very late customer to the Bear Flag squashed five frogs in the street. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z “It’s the reproductive system of a frog. A male frog,” I added. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z “That frog’s gone. He’s hopped way over to the garden, by now. Maybe we’ll see another one.” The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z A tadpole is potentially a frog, and as it grows it develops from potentiality to actuality. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z Or with looks—he had a lopsided frog face and oddly thin arms for a field hand—or with luck. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z “I’m not,” I said, except my throat had clamped and I sounded like a frog. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z He’d taken his frog off the tray and made it dance while Mr. Rizzo was passing out the rest of the specimens. Time Bomb 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z “We’d better get home and tell our mamas that we didn’t catch any frogs and that Mrs. Clayton could use some tending to.” Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z Tonic tasted nutty and good, but it felt slimy, like swallowing a frog. Ella Enchanted 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z I settled into his pillow, my head next to his, and we watched his African dwarf frog swim back and forth from the bottom to the top of the tank. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z He picked up the frog and carried it to the thicket of high ferns. Messenger 2004-04-26T00:00:00Z Some creature—Matty thought probably a fox or weasel—had inflicted a terrible wound upon the small green thing, and the frog was almost dead of it. Messenger 2004-04-26T00:00:00Z Some Mexicans, those who did not like them, called them ranas pecosas, freckled frogs, but she didn’t care about them one way or the other. Lupita Mañana 1981-03-21T00:00:00Z Lifted up, he scrambled onto the top of the gates and jumped down to the drive, landing on all fours like a frog. The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z He said this almost gently, as if we were wild animals, frogs he’d caught, in a jar, as if he were being humane. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z Lane had just shifted his attention from the frogs’ legs to the salad. Franny and Zooey 1961-09-14T00:00:00Z “Don’t you worry about frogs, Doc,” he said. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z Suddenly I saw a frog jumping across the carpet and disappearing under the bed. The Witches 1983-10-27T00:00:00Z Neville’s lips twitched in a weak smile as he unwrapped the frog. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z “Agreed. What do you like to eat? Pickled frog hearts?” Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z They skimmed along the bottom and turned over rocks to flush out frogs and fish. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z Boyle, for example, could place a lit candle in his globe, or a bird; although insects and frogs could be passed through the mercury into the Torricellian space, flames and birds could not. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z Her sister’s skin hung loose, like a hollowed frog’s, as if she had shrunken inside it. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z “You are sounding like an old frog. I want to get some tisane of chamomile for your throat.” Taste of Salt: A Story of Modern Haiti 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z If he really loves me, he will eat frogs and kidneys and chocolate-covered ants. We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z The wind had blown off, leaving a loud bright night with wings beating in the trees and a persistent organ sound as the full bellows of the earth blew the frogs full of life. The Great Gatsby 1925-04-10T00:00:00Z But that wasn’t all I felt looking at those peculiar frogs that day. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z And as if sleeping wasn’t hard enough, the crickets and frogs were out too, and for the first time their chirping was annoying. As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z Tree frogs alone make you wish for earplugs. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z The crickets and the frogs were in full swing with a loud game of Pete and Repeat. As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z The author writes about the little singing frogs that I heard on Darma’s farm. Marcus Vega Doesn't Speak Spanish 2018-08-21T00:00:00Z Avery found an empty candy box and put his frog in it. Charlotte's Web 1952-10-15T00:00:00Z “We didn’t bring no frogs in here, miss. But can we keep ’em?” Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z There was no telling what other invisible creatures I was out here socializing with—snakes, frogs, fish, a whole river world of biting bugs, and I could have cared less. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z There were salamanders and frogs to keep him busy. My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z They lie dormant and waiting, these mud frogs, for without water their lives are incomplete, they are not fully themselves. Stargirl 2000-08-08T00:00:00Z I wasn’t like that frog in the mailbox. Wishtree 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z Her list included lightning, which astonished her; thunder, which terrified her; and frogs, which made her laugh aloud. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z Now he was able to drop the frog to the ground. Messenger 2004-04-26T00:00:00Z Did the eggs of the birds, like those of the laboratory frogs, stop developing simply because they lacked enough of the common currency of energy — the ATP molecules — to complete their development? Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z It is possible that if in the night the frog sound should have stopped, everyone in Salinas would have awakened, feeling that there was a great noise. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z Interestingly enough, he retired not long after the frog incident. Wishtree 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z But if that were the case, the feline family would also have produced cats who could do calculus, and frogs would by now have launched their own space program. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z As they drew quietly near, the frogs heard them coming. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z All the bugs and toady- frogs shut right up, they quit chasing and biting each other ’cause this had to be the loudest whistle they’d ever heard too. Bud, Not Buddy 1999-09-02T00:00:00Z Although he himself was famished, he refused to let his frog go hungry. Boy: Tales of a Childhood 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z And Javier’s overweight frog is in a pond eating as much as he wants. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z Tree frogs peeped loudly from the banks, but their song was too mechanical to be comforting. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z Stella found herself thinking about the frogs she’d heard in the pond. Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z After all, the mailman was absolutely certain that frogs can’t talk. Wishtree 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z I’ve seen dead animals before, dead frogs, dead rabbits, but this raven is deader. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z Through the window I hear muffled words as he becomes increasingly animated and his hands begin to glide around like Malaysian flying frogs. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z The Jemez girl raised her hand and said the people always told the kids not to kill frogs, because the frogs would get angry and send so much rain there would be floods. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z A wave of frantic, frustrated frogs, big ones, little ones, brown ones, green ones, men frogs and women frogs, a wave of them broke over the bank, crawled, leaped, scrambled. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z Gollum squealed, and springing aside on to all fours, he jumped away in one big bound like a frog. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z My dad comes back just when the frogs start to make their noise. Hurricane Child 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z “We’ll get you all the frogs you want. You just rest easy about frogs. Why we can get them right up Carmel River. I know a place.” Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z “I want to live in a tree, with my frog.” Charlotte's Web 1952-10-15T00:00:00Z But the crickets always win, long after the frogs stop croaking and the owl has found its way home. Brown Girl Dreaming 2014-08-28T00:00:00Z The eyes blinked slowly the way a frog blinks. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z We all stared at the frogs, the hundreds of frogs climbing out of the pond on our left, fighting their way up the bank, leaping for the hot pavement. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z They loved the frog’s jolly temper, its warm greeting to the sun each morning, and did not mind at all that the frog thought itself a princess. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z I was shut up in the room with The Grand High Witch and three terrified frogs. The Witches 1983-10-27T00:00:00Z But a kind of swish, like a frog kicking off from a muddy bank. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z Barefoot, he had stepped on the frog, and was startled. Messenger 2004-04-26T00:00:00Z Jellyfish and insects, frogs and lizards, fish and birds are all animals just as cats and dogs are. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z He grins and looks at the frog in his hand. The Thing About Jellyfish 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z “So is yours!” cried Avery, sailing out again with the frog. Charlotte's Web 1952-10-15T00:00:00Z The snake gobbled up the frogs, although it took it some time to catch them all. The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa 2004-12-07T00:00:00Z HERMIONE: You make one more move and your brain will be a frog and your arms will be rubber. Harry Potter and the Cursed Child 2016-07-31T00:00:00Z He lifted his hand tentatively from the wounded frog. Messenger 2004-04-26T00:00:00Z He’d sit up listening to crickets and frogs and on some nights to the radio at his bedside. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z I put the frog in the garden and took the lampshade off a piece of my old dollhouse furniture to make a vodka-bottle floor lamp for the living room. The Miseducation of Cameron Post 2012-02-07T00:00:00Z Bran wondered if he would have to eat a frog to be polite. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z A frog poked its head up, blinked a few times, and disappeared. Homeless Bird 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z There aren’t any more croaking frogs, so I know he heard me. They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z Many’s the time I’ve seen him peel off his hose to show me his legs — as if every frog I’ve ever put into a pie didn’t have better legs than his! Good Masters! Sweet Ladies!: Voices from a Medieval Village 2007-07-24T00:00:00Z “You’re not afraid of the frogs, lizards, or snakes that could be hiding in this grass?” Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z And some years there are lots of frogs in the pond, and some years there are very few. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z “Hello, sister princess,” said the frog happily, for it was certain this was a sign that the time for its transformation had come. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z It was wonderful to see, wonderful to be in the middle of: we mud frogs awakening all around. Stargirl 2000-08-08T00:00:00Z “Gaween, my little frog,” he said, pausing, his voice unusually gentle. The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z “Just you rest easy, Doc. Don’t you lose no sleep about it. You’ll get your frogs, maybe seven eight hundred.” Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z He went over and freed the frog’s feet. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z “They’ll keep coming, too, long as the turtles stay away. Snappers, now, they’ll eat a frog soon as look at him.” Tuck Everlasting 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z As soon as I had the jacket over me the smell of the spice and soap and the sound of the crickets and toady- frogs outside made my eyes get real heavy. Bud, Not Buddy 1999-09-02T00:00:00Z My voice sounded like a frog that had spent time in a microwave. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z Sounds of the marsh filtered in through the cracked-open window: frogs croaking, cicadas singing, and the call of screech owls. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z The frogs would hop out and let me in, and the woodthrush would come to the edge of the pool to see what was happening. My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z Another couple dozen frogs, paid for by me and Stan, exploded under us before we skidded to a slippery stop. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z Every night for a month smaller but more numerous frogs came so that he always had the same amount to eat. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z He could make a frog stand up straight and get happy with Jesus. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z I turned my head and the frog leaped off. Crenshaw 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z “You sound like an old frog when you sing!” Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z “Minnows. It’s too late for tadpoles, silly, but I bet we can find frogs’ eggs. The Haunting of Hill House 1959-10-01T00:00:00Z People whisked into the cars like flies disappearing into the mouths of frogs. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z Fate just didn’t intend Gay to go on that frog hunt and Fate took a hell of a lot of trouble and people and accidents to keep him from it. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z Liang did not realize how wonderful the brush was, however, until he dipped it into the water and painted a frog on the wood of his boat. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z When the frog said, “Once I am grown, I shall have the most beautiful golden hair,” they said only, “To match your beautiful heart.” Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z I imagined all the frogs Stan and I had paid for, beneath the ice, motionless bumps on a muddy bottom, more dead than alive, hanging in a cold, dark limbo until next spring. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z He took it back to where the wounded frog lay, immobilized by its wound. Messenger 2004-04-26T00:00:00Z “I wonder, who was supposed to be the frog? Her? Or the Germans?” All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z I had been eating frogs’ legs, turtles, and best of all, an occasional rabbit. My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z Where else would I gather the water spinach and muck-eating fish for your dinner or the duck eggs and frog spawn for your breakfast? The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z I could close my eyes and almost see him, humped up and waddling along, fishing under the banks with his delicate little paws for crawfish, frogs, and minnows. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z Both legs were moving—awkwardly, to be sure, but the frog was propelling itself with both legs. Messenger 2004-04-26T00:00:00Z The frog dove into the water, and soon its legs began to lengthen. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z Even Genius Dari came over to look, and I could tell he was upset that his frog hadn’t had a nice dinner before dying. The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z I search the bushes for frogs, crickets, grasshoppers, or anything else that can be eaten. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Avery put the frog in his pocket and climbed to the hayloft. Charlotte's Web 1952-10-15T00:00:00Z Deep in the thick undergrowth near the clearing, at the edge of Leader’s puzzled awareness, a small green frog ate an insect it had caught with its sticky, fast- darting tongue. Messenger 2004-04-26T00:00:00Z To his amazement, when he finished, a real frog croaked from his picture and jumped away! When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z Eventually, thankfully, Ernie yapped himself out and fell asleep, snoring so loud he drowned out the crickets and the frogs. As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z The Gold-Bug perched on the edge of James’s desk with an origami frog peeking from the pages. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z She collected frogs from the streams in the forest and put their blood in jars, to give to people when they were sick. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z “The ibises live on frogs, the frogs eat bugs, and the bugs eat one another. It teaches you about the meaning of life.” The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z The voice of a different frog, hoarser and not so deep, croaked from the nearest bank. Tuck Everlasting 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z Dylan must know you are there, because he catches the frog and turns right to you. The Thing About Jellyfish 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z “Now,” Matty told the frog, “don’t be scared. I’m going to spread you out a bit and then carefully cut that dead leg away. It’s the best thing for you.” Messenger 2004-04-26T00:00:00Z There were frogs’ legs, eggs, and turtle soup on my table. My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z “You know I used to collect stuff up the Valley for Doc, turtles and crayfish and frogs. Got a nickel apiece for frogs.” Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z It rained cats and dogs frogs bogs then it rained snakes and lizards. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z Long ago in China, knot-makers tied string into buttons and frogs, and rope into bell pulls. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z I never thought I’d say this, but I miss cutting up dead frogs. The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z He wore narrow cotton trousers, black heelless slippers, and a frogged Chinese smock. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z “I wonder,” Petra said slowly “if paintings that float into your mind on their own are kind of like flying frogs or disappearing people.” Chasing Vermeer 2004-06-01T00:00:00Z The way to catch frogs is with a flashlight at night. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z A small stuffed frog whose fur had been rubbed dry. The Season of Styx Malone 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z The half-buried acorn was easy to miss, but the frog saw straightaway that the acorn was a false shell hiding something inside. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z He was quite near the clearing where the frog had been and perhaps still was. Messenger 2004-04-26T00:00:00Z I gather pine boughs for my bed, cook the frogs legs and cattail tubers, then put out the fire. On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z 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 When the shadows were gone, and the cliff rock began to get warm, the frogs came out from their sleeping places in small cracks and niches in the cliff above the pool. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z He was a scholarly-looking priest whose dæmon had the form of a frog. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z And she looks more like a frog than a lollipop, a chachi tree frog. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z She put ricotta cheese on crackers, frogs’ legs on crackers, bamboo shoots on crackers, and fish killies, still with their heads, on crackers. The Pigman 1968-10-12T00:00:00Z Eddie sauntered down and bought two frogs’ worth of Bull Durham. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z The bank was littered with the crow-picked remains of perch and crayfish and turtles and frogs. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z On her rooftop I placed a sleeping frog. The Unfinished Angel 2009-09-22T00:00:00Z I pictured the snowflaky, Grandma Moses villages, the reaches of swampland rattling with dried cattails, the ponds where frog and hornpout dreamed in a sheath of ice, and the shivering woods. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z The frog gazed at itself in the cursed water as if seeing for the first time and saw that what the princess said was true, and its sadness was beyond measure. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z The night had been roaring with frog song and then suddenly it was silent. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z All we could hear were the crickets and frogs and our own crazy panting. Wonder 2012-02-14T00:00:00Z After it had done this, it resumed its chase of the boy, only to stop again when it came to the frogs jumping about on the ground. The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa 2004-12-07T00:00:00Z Today we have a quarter-acre pond which already has frogs and little fish. On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z As if it understood what Matty had said, the frog turned, flopping itself over from its belly-up position, and moved toward the ferns. Messenger 2004-04-26T00:00:00Z By the river, a chorus of whistling frogs joined the clamor of insects. The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z “Don’t give up,” Petra whispered in her dream, and as if the story- frog heard her, it came upon a large acorn covered in vines. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z He trudged along, the night air filled with the song of crickets and the calls of frogs and the Who? Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z “It's just a giant green frog—I'm not kidding—wearing a top hat.” Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z I think of the consent form that’s still under the frog magnet on our refrigerator. Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z Okay, in many ways these frogs were a lot like what I’d seen back at the Cottages. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z Ibises, with wings clipped to keep them from flying away, stalked through papyrus grass and hunted frogs under the lily pads. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z He stipulated, however, that he would take no dead frogs. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z He emptied the fifty frogs into it and covered it with a wet gunny sack to keep his charges happy. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z He would just sit by himself and say he was imagining melons turning into frogs. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z A few frogs lost their heads and floundered among the feet and got through and these were saved. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z It was a clear night, and she could hear the crickets and the frogs. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z A frog croaked near me and my heart jumped. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z I caught lizards on the rail fences, rats in the com crib, and frogs in the little creek that ran through the fields. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z They unearthed frogs that were still in hibernation and so groggy they could hardly move. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z I admired Arkle very much for looking after his frog so well. Boy: Tales of a Childhood 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z “Where was he going to get a frog in November.” The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z We walk around the twisting trunks, going off the beaten path toward the trilling croaks of more tree frogs. They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z 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 Many of the caves in the buttes are splattered with ancient pictographs—rock paintings of hands, stars, frogs, and human figures, all reminiscent of Joan Miro, in overlapping red and yellow and brown. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z "They're thieves and cravens, and they have green teeth from eating frogs." A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z “If Doc needs frogs it’s a setup,” said Mack. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z “You are a hoot, Abilene Tucker. Let’s get going. Mama’s going to have the frying pan ready to fry up some frog legs for supper.” Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z He tried to grab it, but the frog took an enormous leap as he approached. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z In their millions the frog songs seemed to have a beat and a cadence, and perhaps it is the ears’ function to do this just as it is the eyes’ business to make stars twinkle. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z Horan liked the soups and the rice, but he didn’t dare try the other food they served, with cooked snakes, frog legs, and other animals hunted from the jungle. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z The frog didn’t know how it could possibly save a witch from so great a spell. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z There were frogs there all right, thousands of them. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z The deeper we go, the more the frog song is replaced by the sounds of people and a waterfall. They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z During class, I couldn’t help but sneak looks at Dorothy at her desk while she worked on a drawing of frog intestines. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z The frog on the bank croaked in response and leapt into the moon-dappled river. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z He checked the underbrush where the frog had landed, but found nothing. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z “Before we know it, frogs will be falling from the sky,” he says. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z But the frog wasn’t all right, and couldn’t have escaped with a hop. Messenger 2004-04-26T00:00:00Z And then her mom showed us how to make origami frogs, and I was actually good at it. When You Reach Me 2009-07-14T00:00:00Z But never in frog history had such an execution taken place. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z New Guineans old and young routinely eat mice, spiders, frogs, and other small animals that peoples elsewhere with access to large domestic mammals or large wild game species do not bother to eat. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z He put the Doc at his ease about frogs and then a little cloud crossed Mack’s face. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z I won’t be croaking songs into the night like the tiny little frogs do. Marcus Vega Doesn't Speak Spanish 2018-08-21T00:00:00Z “Not even as long as the frog ?” “Much longer than you or me,” Nately blurted out lamely. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z “Look at my frog!” said Avery, placing the frog on the drainboard and holding out his hand for pie. Charlotte's Web 1952-10-15T00:00:00Z “If you turn me into a frog, I’m telling Mom and Dad,” Zack says, holding the spoon in front of him like a sword. A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z “Supper? At Old Chao’s house? Sure,” he said, blithe as a new frog. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z They get me up and down the steep hills of San Francisco and shoot me through the water like a frog when I swim. Julie of the Wolves 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z She did her best, she drove slowly, trying to avoid as many frogs as she could. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z Did butterflies eventually turn into birds, or beetles into frogs? The Girl Who Drew Butterflies: How Maria Merian's Art Changed Science 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z Some force wrought with Lee Chong’s heart and all in an Oriental moment he forgave Mack and the boys and wrote off the frog debt which had been a monetary headache from the beginning. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z But then Dad would do something funny, like try to jump like the frog we were watching on Sesame Street, and it would make me giggle. Out of My Mind 2010-03-09T00:00:00Z Steak, for instance—the very best steak shouldn’t have been more than ten frogs a pound but Lee set it at twelve and a half. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z 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 Matty found himself talking to the frog as if it might be able to reply. Messenger 2004-04-26T00:00:00Z She clutched her frog spear in her other hand, jabbing the tines into the snow for a little more support. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z Guards, though, did not care if Shin and his friends ate rats, frogs, snakes, and insects. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z “Right. Speaking of frogs, any news from New York?” Chasing Vermeer 2004-06-01T00:00:00Z “See for yourself. You are a frog. And I am a princess. And nothing, nothing on this earth, will ever change that.” Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z Matty repeated the frog’s throaty sound, as if they were conversing. Messenger 2004-04-26T00:00:00Z But the Terrible Things threw their terrible nets down into the depths and they dragged up the dripping frogs and the shimmering fish and carried them away. Terrible Things: An Allegory of the Holocaust 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z My leg hopped like a frog struck by lightning. Worth 1998-06-01T00:00:00Z But the frog, instead of taking a left turn at the shoe, jumped over it and hopped on toward third base. Maniac Magee 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z And peepers and frogs—not to mention spiders having thousands of babies in his windows. Miracles on Maple Hill 1956-08-01T00:00:00Z As an afterthought, he added, “It’s a nice night out. You can really hear the frogs.” The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z And there are all sorts of frogs, toads, and bugs too! Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z He made her feel as though the world belonged to them—as though it lay before them like an opened frog on a dissecting table, begging to be examined. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z We were scheduled to do the frog unit in April, but the frog company delivered our victims on January 14. Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z “Maybe the rain gave the frogs an excuse to drop in,” Calder grinned. Chasing Vermeer 2004-06-01T00:00:00Z "Do they truly eat frogs?" he asked the old knight. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z “He’s probably fishing at the pond or holed up in a tree somewhere. Maybe he’s catching frogs in the marsh. He often disappears all day.” The Old Willis Place 2004-09-20T00:00:00Z Scrambling over a damp, rotting log, Kendra shrieked when she saw a glistening white frog. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z For quite a while a little river of frogs hopped down the steps, a swirling, moving river. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z He was sweating and trembling, and his frog dæmon fell from the edge of the witness stand to the floor in her agitation. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z The boys blocked up the front wheels, drained what gasoline was left into a five-gallon can, took their frogs and went wearily home to the Palace Flophouse. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z On one morning I saw three kinds of animals, not counting cats, dogs, frogs, cows, and horses. Shiloh 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z Mosquitoes bit at her but she lingered outside anyway, listening to the wind in the pines and the frogs croaking across the marsh. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z The monkey shrieks and birdcalls, the insect scrapings and frog croakings, and the incessant drip-drip of condensing moisture sounded very loud to Will, outside it. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z I think if I was a frog she’d of talked to me just the same, once I got her started with that smart-aleck question. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z The three frogs were clustered together under the middle of the bed. The Witches 1983-10-27T00:00:00Z The sheriff, the only person standing over by the dead man, was staring down at his froth-flecked, unshaven, bulbous, and starey-eyed frog face. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z She retained the names of most of the things she looked at Xenopus laevis, African clawed frog. Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z This was her last question: Would you rather kiss a girl or kiss a frog? P.S. I Miss You 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z They disposed of the last of the frogs for a quart of Old Tennis Shoes and two gallons of 49-cent wine. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z "They have a boggy stink, like frogs and trees and scummy water. Moss grows under their arms in place of hair, and they can live with nothing to eat but mud and breathe swamp water." A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z Confused and alarmed, he tried to scrape the sticky body of the frog off his hand. Messenger 2004-04-26T00:00:00Z But when I turned back around, the pavement was alive, blanketed green by bouncing frogs. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z The days are warm and the nights cool, with the constant sounds of insects and tree frogs lulling us to sleep. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z “It sounds like a frog with a sore throat.” The Bridge Home 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z “Look at these frogs,” he said, pointing at the disclored rubbery bodies and clouded eyes. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z The returning midwife, angry at Alyce for ignoring her earlier, set her to do all the least pleasant chores: roasting frogs’ livers, boiling snails into jelly, stripping the thorns from dogberry roses. The Midwife's Apprentice 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z It was warm and humid, and frogs were croaking. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z 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 Meera moved in a wary circle, her net dangling loose in her left hand, the slender threepronged frog spear poised in her right. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z I put a dead frog in the water bottle. Homeless Bird 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z With sons I would have known what to do: frog catching, fishing, war strategies, running around in the mud. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z A transparent film had spread over his lips; it bulged like a frog’s gullet as he tried to breathe, eyes darting left and right in panic. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z Outside my open window, frogs and crickets made the silence more profound. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z It was a daring plan, for the woods were full of many dangers, but the little frog was determined. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z When people spoke of his brother Joe making so much money in advertising in the East, Will always said he himself was a big frog in a little puddle. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z “Let me. I found her first, didn’t I, Winnie Foster? Listen, I’ll show you where the frogs are, and .. “Hush,” Tuck interrupted. Tuck Everlasting 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z The bottle was brass, so no one noticed the frog until all the water had been drunk. Homeless Bird 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z To Ammu, her twins seemed like a pair of small bewildered frogs engrossed in each other’s company, lolloping arm in arm down a highway full of hurtling traffic. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z “Our frog,” she said, as if that were obvious. The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z On my way out I might stop by the terraria to look at some shiny frogs glazed bright, bright green, or yellow and deep blue, or brown and pale green. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z The frogs jumped underneath the bed again in one quick hop. The Witches 1983-10-27T00:00:00Z Salinas was surrounded and penetrated with swamps, with tule-filled ponds, and every pond spawned thousands of frogs. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z “Ai, Chihuahua . . .” And, now that it had devoured most of the town’s water snakes, that grubby yellow feline reincarnation of Cleofes Apodaca was pitter-pattering quietly along the irrigation ditches, hunting frogs. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z "What did the frogs and the fish do to them?" Terrible Things: An Allegory of the Holocaust 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z She puts on a long, fur-trimmed green coat with frog clasps. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z Queenie creeps into his lap, leaving her hind legs sticking straight out, like a frog. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z From somewhere nearby a shiny green frog emerged from the base of a bush. Messenger 2004-04-26T00:00:00Z They lay together, like thin, strange, secret frogs, their bothes well-boned and ready to fill out into toughness as soon as they might be given decent nourishment. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z She went on watching Lane eat his frogs’ legs. Franny and Zooey 1961-09-14T00:00:00Z To his surprise, Leader followed the frog, pushing his way through thick bushes, and found that it had led him to the place where the path resumed. Messenger 2004-04-26T00:00:00Z “Did you know some frogs can leap so far it’d be like a human jumping the length of a football field? They’re amazing jumpers.” Crenshaw 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z The frog stayed motionless and let them pass. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z “I hear frogs at night,” I tell him. The Adoration of Jenna Fox 2008-04-29T00:00:00Z But considering the choice had become dissecting a frog or hanging out with Mikayla and Janie, I chose the less vile option. The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z “As you wish. Bring your frog to court tomorrow. The others too. The Westerosi.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z Now Mack counted fifty frogs into a can and walked back to the grocery with Lee and got two dollars’ worth of bacon and eggs and bread. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z Now I’m curious about your answer: Would you rather kiss a girl or kiss a frog? P.S. I Miss You 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z “Do you know what happens, Etienne,” says Madame Manec from the other side of the kitchen, “when you drop a frog in a pot of boiling water?” All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z Leftover cigar smoke drifted from men’s suits, and at each stop the roar of frogs and crickets filled the car. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z Petra sat by the river’s edge listening to the night sounds and watching a frog hopping along the marshy, muddy bank. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z Booth limps off the stage “with a motion,” observes one spectator, “like the hopping of a bull frog.” Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z The man rose off his feet, described a small arc, and crashed through the packing case in among the frogs. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z I hold my hand out and the lady says, “Would you like a flower or a frog or a dragonfly?” Rules 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z “Well, we have wasted quite enough time with frogs and foolishness,” Mrs. Grayson said, buttoning up her smiles. Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z My frog hopped this way and that, always staying just out of reach. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z Some of the frogs sat stunned and motionless as the 4x4 flashed over them, hot and fast. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z The halls were empty and the lotus garden deserted, except for ibises meditating on the existence of frogs. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z Plus we were in no hurry to become ladies if that meant not getting to go frog hunting or wear overalls, or having to act all proper, like Charlotte Hamilton. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z The room was quiet, except for the creaking of frogs. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z He used the back of his tongue to scratch the inside of his throat, ribbitting like a frog. The Boy in the Black Suit 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z He thought of the frog first, then the puppy, and wondered if his gift could save his friend. Messenger 2004-04-26T00:00:00Z His life would be easier, Matty knew, if the little frog were unmarked and ordinary. Messenger 2004-04-26T00:00:00Z Within minutes of the official start time, we were running hall sprints, doing frog jumps and bear crawls until sweat was pouring from every inch of our bodies. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z The frog jumped and landed in Mrs. Zuckerman’s dishpan full of soapy water. Charlotte's Web 1952-10-15T00:00:00Z It was not ideal, but it was private and, except for birds and frogs, quiet. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z “We’re going to open up these frogs and see what makes them tick. You never truly know how an organism works until you see what’s going on inside.” The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z “Why do you call me sister, little frog?” Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z The frog’s wide-open eyes, which had been glazed with death only a few moments before, were now clear and alert. Messenger 2004-04-26T00:00:00Z Sometimes words fly out of my mouth like warty frogs. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z She could have told him about the frogs, if she’d remembered to. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z Dari bent over our lab table for a better look at the frog. The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z In the cold of winter, the wood frog’s heart freezes and stops, waiting until spring until it thaws and beats again. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z The waiter had come forward to serve Lane’s frogs’ legs and salad, and Franny looked up at him. Franny and Zooey 1961-09-14T00:00:00Z On and on she goes, and though this would normally be so frustrating, to listen to someone talk as much as the frogs make noise at night, I realize I don’t actually mind. Hurricane Child 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z It suddenly occurred to me that almost certainly once upon a time they had been children, those frogs, before The Grand High Witch had got hold of them. The Witches 1983-10-27T00:00:00Z After Astelle and Fang and a couple of deadly lists and a road foil of frogs, the answer to her question seemed stupid and weak even to me, but I said it anyway. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z And it means that sometimes a whole population of frogs, or worms, or people, can die for no reason whatsoever, just because that is the way the numbers work. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z Grumbling, she applied herself to memorizing the anatomy of a frog. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z At exactly that moment, he releases the frog. The Thing About Jellyfish 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z For half an hour, Pax tried—he chased scurrying voles and hopping wrens, and once a sunning frog. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z And there are cats with colored veins and arteries, and frogs the same. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z “He said he would put a frog in her desk and she wouldn’t dare to whip him.” The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z I conk the frog out with chloroform as directed and dissect it with flair, sticking in the pins. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z The sound I make is croaky like a frog. Muffled 2020-10-27T00:00:00Z I wasn’t cutting the frog open or anything, but I started narrating as Twig sliced, like Twig was one of those doctors on TV. The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z But I cannot get that frog out of my head. The Thing About Jellyfish 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z He admires his frog and puts it on the table next to Mom’s frog so that their little frog feet are touching. When You Reach Me 2009-07-14T00:00:00Z The tree frogs start singing, and I open my eyes. On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z And the crickets and frogs are too enthusiastic, chirping and cheering for my success. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z Standard Kalahari Desert meerkats do not behave like frogs. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z He had come across the little frog by chance, in the clearing. Messenger 2004-04-26T00:00:00Z The pattern requires that the frog sit still, sit very still and wait. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z Thus a tadpole has the form of a juvenile frog, and its goal, its final cause, is to become an adult frog. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z Gunfire and shells were going off around them, and the airfield was peppered with ugly little antipersonnel mines people called “frogs,” which would explode if you stepped on them. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z “Avery is always fine. Of course, he gets into poison ivy and gets stung by wasps and bees and brings frogs and snakes home and breaks everything he lays his hands on. He’s fine.” Charlotte's Web 1952-10-15T00:00:00Z He said hesitantly, “S’pose you boys would like a little something to warm you up before you go out for the frogs?” Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z “What do they do with the frogs?” he asked. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z Lane cut into his last pair of frogs’ legs. Franny and Zooey 1961-09-14T00:00:00Z Suddenly, with startling agility and speed, straight off the ground with a jump like a grasshopper or a frog, Gollum bounded forward into the darkness. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z Mrs. Grayson exclaimed, staggering backward as two fat frogs leaped from the piano. Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z Out of the corner of my eye, I noticed a frog hop onto the windowsill. Crenshaw 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z The man with net or bow or lance or gun creeps noiselessly, as he thinks, toward the frog. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z The croaking sound of frogs broke the silence, and within seconds a swarm of tadpoles followed by a pair of goldfish filled the clearing. Breaking Through 2001-08-27T00:00:00Z Hungry Joe spilled forward into the room like a floundering frog. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z The commotion startled a heron hunting frogs along the edge of the river. Homeless Bird 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z The frog had fine, strong legs and a wonderful, full- throated croak and was the pride of its mother and father. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z Whoever it was meant for, I was the one who folded it in half and stuck it in my pocket, so I could feel Faith and the frogs’ true story riding close to my skin. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z Three frogs came hopping out from under the bed. The Witches 1983-10-27T00:00:00Z You can count on kids to eat anything when they’re at a party, especially if they don’t know it’s ants and frogs. The Pigman 1968-10-12T00:00:00Z T he fish was so big that there was little fishes inside that he had eaten whole and a frog too. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z But the night was not silent; the little tree frogs that lived near the stream twittered like birds, and the high metallic ringing of the cicadas filled the mountain cleft. The Pearl 1947-01-01T00:00:00Z She dissected a frog and raised its eggs, recording each stage. The Girl Who Drew Butterflies: How Maria Merian's Art Changed Science 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z She took off her sunglasses to get a better look at the dead frog squashed on the road. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z When you entered a stall, more often than not a plumbing emergency greeted you, a brown tide, a soup of dead frogs. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z They squatted on the tables like black frogs. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z From it she did not see ducks, but frogs and songbirds. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z The squirrels, the mice, rats, frogs, possums, lizards. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z One back leg was oddly stiff but the frog barely noticed. Messenger 2004-04-26T00:00:00Z Kendra passed a small, waterless fountain featuring a statue of a frog. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z Yet each morning, the frog opened its eyes to find it was still only a frog. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z “Jesus, is he gonna be happy when he sees all them frogs.” Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z Peepers, Judith had said, the little frogs that lived in the swamp, and why should the sound of them tear at her heart? The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z But all through those six weeks, Arkle continued to feed his frog with slugs through the hole in the lid of his tuck-box. Boy: Tales of a Childhood 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z He spoke of the great success of the trip, of the hundreds of frogs taken. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z She sings a little tune about a yellow frog and its lily pad and pond. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z There is a half second where the frog flies through the air—ridiculously, cartoonishly—and then there is a noise, a terrible noise. The Thing About Jellyfish 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z “We don’t want you to have like a mortgage on frogs,” Mack went on. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z But the artichoke doesn’t stop, and Zola pushes through the gate and grabs the metal bucket and throws it into the pond of frogs. The Unfinished Angel 2009-09-22T00:00:00Z He bunted the frog, laid down a perfect bunt in front of the plate, third-base side, and he took off for first. Maniac Magee 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z “The other day she walked up to a street vendor selling grilled frog legs and proceeded to ask him all these questions. ‘ First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Franny seemed intensely interested in the way Lane was dismembering his frogs’ legs. Franny and Zooey 1961-09-14T00:00:00Z “It is a proper way to behave. You do this and that, so the gods do not punish you,” said Amah as she fastened my frog clasps. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z The whole thing hinged on whether they actually had any frogs. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z His beaver head looked more like a deformed frog. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z He captures snowflakes, tadpoles, hibernating frogs; he coaxes bread from bakers with none to sell; he regularly appears in the kitchen with fresh milk for the babies. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z There was no sound, not even the honk of a frog or the chirp of a cricket. Grendel 1971-01-01T00:00:00Z In Dubai, once, my mom helped a poor lady and she gave us frog to eat, and I had to chew it with my eyes closed. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z Last year I heard about a frog named Fly, who’d been napping in a mailbox. Wishtree 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z I passed the man with the jumping frogs and the man with the boxer toys. The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z Ron’s magic wand was lying on top of a fish tank full of frog spawn on the windowsill, next to his fat gray rat, Scabbers, who was snoozing in a patch of sun. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z It had a flat head, with bulging eyes and a wide frog mouth, and from it came wafts of abominable stink. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z The thing that makes me maddest of all, that makes me feel like I swallowed a frog, is how right he is. The Young Man and the Sea 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z In front of. the Palace he had a drink of the whiskey, inspected the damp sacks of frogs, and agreed to the transaction. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z As the sun sets and the oppressive heat breaks, he hears crickets and frogs begin their music and join the migrant chorus. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z The strange thing about them was their clothing, for the boys were dressed in the straight trousers and the frogged and braided jackets of the Chinese. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z I could hear the crickets and some frogs, but nothing else. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z I felt as if I had swallowed several frogs—they were hopping in my stomach. I Will Always Write Back 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z “I pledge a lesson to the frog of the United States of America, and to the wee puppet for witches’ hands. In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson 1984-10-12T00:00:00Z A green frog pipes, a star shoots, and a light comes on in Mrs. Strawberry’s farm kitchen. On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z The next night a dozen frogs, together the size of a pair of year- old babies, jumped from the ceiling. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z He stood and looked down at the impassive frog. Messenger 2004-04-26T00:00:00Z He reached gently into the undergrowth and lifted out a small frog. Messenger 2004-04-26T00:00:00Z 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 In his hand, the frog drew a shuddering breath and then was still. Messenger 2004-04-26T00:00:00Z The two walked along the bank and watched frogs jump into the river until the bell rang at the end of recess. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z The Wise Witch was very grateful to the little frog. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z Once Petra remembered Fort’s sentence We shall pick up an existence by its frogs, she pointed out to Calder that perhaps it had been some kind of strange clue. Chasing Vermeer 2004-06-01T00:00:00Z In fact, for over a decade, when Cleofes Apodaca was in his prime, frogs were as scarce in that town as camels and gold bullion. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z “We will actually deliver right into your hands twenty-five frogs for every buck of groceries you let us have and you can come to the party too.” Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z I was nearly six feet tall, pale as a frog’s underbelly, and had bright red hair. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z Outside: owls, frogs, deer, the occasional bobcat, and Dr. Atchley keeps a small colony of bees. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z He looked past Tom and saw a frog on the lawn. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z Meera Reed rose, her frog spear in her hand, a chunk of smoking meat still impaled upon its tines. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z Within a year she was prepared to exchange the frog on the dissecting table for some small, practical concessions. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z There was a frog on the brick walk, squatting in the middle of it. The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z For quite a while Cannery Row crawled with frogs—was overrun with frogs. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z Now she found herself inside the story, which went as follows: Once upon a time, when magic was not questioned and the miraculous showed itself in every dewdrop and moon shadow, there lived a frog. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z “It jumps out. But do you know what happens when you put the frog in a pot of cool water and then slowly bring it to a boil? You know what happens then?” All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z A moment later, he ordered the chicken sandwich and the glass of milk for Franny, and snails, frogs’ legs, and a salad for himself. Franny and Zooey 1961-09-14T00:00:00Z Pearl, true to her word, handed Lexie a typed-up essay the next week—the story of the frog prince, from the point of view of the frog. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z I crouched low to the ground, listening and watching, when suddenly a fat green frog hopped in front of me. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z His father saw the baby and said, “Cono, he looks like a frog,” and quickly handed the baby to the mother. Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z What Danny thought was shrapnel was actually a big frog that had jumped into their hole and landed on his helmet. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z Tens and fifties of them were flung into the gunny sacks, and the sacks filled with tired, frightened, and disillusioned frogs, with dripping, whimpering frogs. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z It reminds me of playing in the garden as a child, looking for frogs by the pond with Ben. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z It smells like frog juice, a cross between a nursing home and potato salad. Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z Pumpkins turn into carriages, frogs into princes, mermaids into girls. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z But it can rain frogs if they get sucked up in a storm and they plop down on top of your head. Mockingbird 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z He watched the rainwater fall from the leaves of the forest below and a tree frog vibrate his throat with song. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z Shirtless and with hair shaved short to prevent lice, they scampered and wrestled and searched for frogs in the mud. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z First he dropped a lizard and then he dropped some frogs. The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa 2004-12-07T00:00:00Z He sailed out through the door, frog and all, and into the sky, frog and all. Charlotte's Web 1952-10-15T00:00:00Z “We saw a white frog,” Seth said breathlessly. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z Some little boys in the Biafran Boys Brigade were practicing on the street, with sticks shaped like guns, doing frog jumps, calling one another captain! and adjutant! in high voices. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z Frogmore stew didn’t have frogs in it, but it did have crab and shrimp cooked in a rich tomato broth with corn and potatoes. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z Mack wrote out a paper transferring the frogs to Lee in case there should be any question. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z We’d catch frogs, rabbits, muskrats—basically whatever creatures happened along our stretch of the creek. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z She watched him disjoint a pair of frogs’ legs. Franny and Zooey 1961-09-14T00:00:00Z She led the little frog to the clearest part of the river. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z The frog kicks and is more difficult than the worm, it looks a little too much like a person swimming. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z She’d already been hinting that during the next eclipse we slam pot lids together to scare the frog from swallowing the moon. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z Their machines are big and shiny and they whir and hum, but do they really know more than some Stone Age witch doctor with a rattle and a gourd full of ground-up frog bones? Things Not Seen 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z For the dormant mud frogs we had been for so long. Stargirl 2000-08-08T00:00:00Z Every frog leaped, plopped into the pool, and swam frantically to the bottom. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z So he lumbered off the mound after the frog, which was now hopping down the third-base line. Maniac Magee 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z On hot days we swam in Elsinore's river where it meandered through a nearby wood, and we captured frogs and salamanders on its grassy banks. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z I was dreaming about my childhood, about a pet frog I once kept named Big Wind. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z “I am a princess!” said the frog in a voice soft and sweet as first spring clover. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z The sky goes black and I hear a chorus of frogs begin to sing. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z Mister, did you catch the frogs from the ponds in the country or do you raise them? First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z We listened for frogs, but they had shacked up for the winter. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z It was from the Examiner and concerned the Highway 6 frog massacre. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z "Some frog. There was a noise too. A kind of 'plop' noise. Then the thing bulged." Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z Still kneeling beside the frog, Matty took a few long breaths, trying to get his strength again so that he could flee. Messenger 2004-04-26T00:00:00Z One was in turquoise blue and the other in a faded rose pink, and the frogs and braid were black. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z “The best time for frogs is at night,” he said, “so I guess we’ll just lay around ’til it gets dark.” Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z Calder went on, “Remember the N for National Gallery that day we were trying to get the pentominoes to say something about where Frog was? That day with the frog napkins and the rain?” Chasing Vermeer 2004-06-01T00:00:00Z “Yeah, it was my frog that went nuts,” I said. The Season of Styx Malone 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z With precise movements, he folds a perfect origami frog. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z Bent forward at the waist, groping with both hands, he seemed to be chasing some creature just beyond reach, something elusive, a fish or a frog. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z The pond was fringed with reeds, where a frog was croaking. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z Even the frogs and the owls held their breath. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z “Hold still,” Lane said to a pair of frogs’ legs. Franny and Zooey 1961-09-14T00:00:00Z Still, frog legs sounded a bit exotic even to me. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z The frog pool was square—fifty feet wide and seventy feet long and four feet deep. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z Calder’s mom brought them cookies on dark blue napkins covered with green frogs. Chasing Vermeer 2004-06-01T00:00:00Z Bran backed away, bleeding, and Meera Reed was there, driving her frog spear deep into the wight’s back. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z I make an origami frog for Mom and put it on top of her envelope. When You Reach Me 2009-07-14T00:00:00Z She logged the names of vipers, salamanders, rare frogs, tiny snakes native only to faraway islands. Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z “Come on, girls, we don’t need to stick around here. The witch baby might turn us into frogs or something.” Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z Jones was outraged a little later when the price of Coca-Cola went up from one to two frogs. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z “You standing there drooling, that’s what! They about to hand over what we came for, and you like a frog on a log. And Gum Baby hates frogs. Are you even listening?” Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z He starts singing and he’s just got a terrible voice, like an albino Jamaican frog, but we chime in as best we can with our voices and whatever instruments we ended up with. It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z I make a drawing of the inside of the frog, with all its curlicues and bulbs, its tiny lungs, its cold-blooded amphibian heart. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z I actually thought for a moment that we could cast spells, could turn people into frogs or rabbits, to punish the evil and reward the good. Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z He couldn’t stay here.The rainy season in the Ajo Mountains was brief, and Matt had a very clear idea of how soon the little frog ponds and hidden grottoes would dry out. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z “I could use three or four hundred frogs,” he said. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z Before sleep each night, the frog prayed to the four winds, to the great fish, to the sun above, and to the goddess moon that when it woke, it would be a princess. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z For five solid hours of downpour we watched small red frogs with immense, cartoonlike toes squeeze in around the windows and hop steadily up the walls. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z His tree frog lived in the parlor, while his snapping turtle could be found tied to the laundry tub. Death on the River of Doubt 2017-01-03T00:00:00Z “If your king eats frogs while standing on one leg.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z It was like the croaking of a frog, hoarse, tuneless. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z Again, the crickets and frogs lulled him and his mind drifted into another storm and burst of Petey, and again, only the sound of strange footsteps kicked him out of his dreams. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z Canned peaches were sky high, eight frogs for a No. 2 can. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z I touch the tiny frog stamp on his hand and show him mine. Rules 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z There was a hint of mist, now that the air was cooler, and the frogs talked comfortably. Tuck Everlasting 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z “Oh, a clever frog. ‘Give the gift to me.’” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z They call the Witches The Three Wired Sisters; they call Cordelia a cream-faced loon, and they threaten to put eye of newt and toe of frog into her coffee. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z “There certainly are a lot of frogs around here,” Winnie observed. Tuck Everlasting 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z Some old fat goldfish lived in the pool with several frogs and water lizards, shaded by wide lily pads and ivy. Go Set a Watchman: A Novel 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z It was so dead and squashed so flat that it looked more like a frog-shaped stain on the road than a frog. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z Usually the trees were filled with birds, and frogs chirped from the bushes. I Survived Hurricane Katrina, 2005 2011-04-01T00:00:00Z She began to jump up and down like a happy frog. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z I try to respond, but all that comes out of my mouth is this strangled sound like a frog dying. Odd One Out 2018-08-09T00:00:00Z Ron was more interested in eating the frogs than looking at the Famous Witches and Wizards cards, but Harry couldn’t keep his eyes off them. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z My heart had turned into a frog trying to jump out my throat. Patina 2017-08-29T00:00:00Z If we thought Mr. Neely loved dead frogs and magnets, we experienced a whole new level of Neely love today. The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z “I heard the frogs today,” said the old sheep one evening. Charlotte's Web 1952-10-15T00:00:00Z We chased after the desert rats that lived in the wrecked cars, or caught tadpoles and frogs in the scum-topped pond. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z During the millennia that frogs and men have lived in the same world, it is probable that men have hunted frogs. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z When I realize the family is speaking in Tamil, my heart turns from a hopping frog into a heavy stone. Born Behind Bars 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z The harsh cicada seemed to take up its melody, and the twittering tree frogs called little phrases of it. The Pearl 1947-01-01T00:00:00Z It’s a little creepy listening to the singing frogs as it gets darker, but I don’t say anything. Marcus Vega Doesn't Speak Spanish 2018-08-21T00:00:00Z Through the broken end of the packing case a frog hopped and sat feeling the air for danger and then another joined him. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z No hum of bayou crickets or the bleating of frogs. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z We played B-ball, caught frogs and fished by the creek, climbed trees and stuff. The Million Dollar Shot 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z As he moved through the grass around the pool, a small green frog wiggled out of the weeds ahead of him, and splashed into the pool. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z The woods were full of frozen streams and cold black lakes, and Meera was as good a fisher with her three-pronged frog spear as most men were with hook and line. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z Since his skin is translucent, you can actually see the heart of the glass frog at work. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z Pickled frogs have a way of disappearing from the storage closet, so today Ms. Keen armed us with knives and told us not to gag. Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z Now and then the net is too quick, the lance pierces, the gun flicks and that frog is gone, but it is all fair and in the framework. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z Sometimes it was stuff like a young bird that had fallen out of its nest before it could fly, or a green-speckled spring frog or a striped water snake. Old Yeller 1956-01-01T00:00:00Z The frog made no effort to leap from his hand. Messenger 2004-04-26T00:00:00Z The insects and tree frogs, Stella figured, had tucked themselves into some muddy place, just trying to keep warm. Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z Then he gently went from hoof to hoof and cleaned the frog. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z In the ditch a frog opened its eyes, disturbed by some slight noise from the hedgerow. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z The rabbits and porcupines shared the shade beneath the trees and the frogs and fish shared the cool brown waters of the forest pond. Terrible Things: An Allegory of the Holocaust 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z As he did so, he looked at Mo as uneasily as if he feared a word from him might turn him into a frog or one of the beetles still crawling around among the coins. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z I stood there clutching the bottle and staring at the frogs. The Witches 1983-10-27T00:00:00Z The frogs were gone from one sack and Lee’s packing case was getting crowded. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z “Do you remember what Madame said about the boiling frog?” All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z I make an origami frog for Richard and put it on top of his box. When You Reach Me 2009-07-14T00:00:00Z I don’t think she has since we cut up Renaldo, and that was only because she didn’t want to get frog guts in her hair. The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z A painful kind of power surged from his hand, flowing into the frog, and held them bound together. Messenger 2004-04-26T00:00:00Z The Gold-Bug perched on the edge of James’s desk with an origami frog peeking from the pages. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z The water in the brook gurgled and the frogs splashed. The Season of Styx Malone 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z The thought of Sister Redempta and anybody going frog hunting was a hoot, but I knew she was just correcting my grammar. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z You can’t step directly into a cold stream of water, it’s too shocking, too brutal, but if you get there gradually, you hardly notice it; it’s like boiling a frog in reverse. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z It is nice to have something cool rushing down my throat, but the bursting bubbles make me feel like little frogs are leaping around inside my mouth. Born Behind Bars 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z She unbuttoned the frogs to show the lining, thick and plaid like a blanket. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z “I may be sure of constant annoyance from red-eyed frogs.” The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z The frogs, who all came up near the river, went straight into it with a plop- plop and a loud croaking. The Magician's Nephew 1955-05-02T00:00:00Z Like the first time in science class, when the teacher brought in a tubful of dead frogs, bloated with formaldehyde, and the Navajos all left the room; the teacher said those old beliefs were stupid. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z Loved dissecting frogs, doing word problems, going to football games, and dating cheerleaders. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z It looks like the throat sac on one of those big frogs they show on Animal Planet. Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z Like I’m a frog she’s about to dissect on a lab table. I Can Make This Promise 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z He turned the frog onto its back and touched the shredded leg, meaning to arrange it in a way that would make the amputation simple and fast. Messenger 2004-04-26T00:00:00Z They’d roam the nearby forests and meadows, gathering mushrooms, digging up edible roots, catching frogs and occasionally running away from tigers. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z “Remember how it was with the frogs. No, we’ll just tell Doc about them. He can come over and get them.” Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z The book in which I found that passage was full of tables and graphs showing the results of experiments on frogs, salamanders, rats, apes, and human beings. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z It was full spring and in the shallow pool the frogs croaked drowsily. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z There were a lot of cattails and frogs there. My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z “I like stuff like frogs and snakes and bugs,” Claudia said simply. Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z Only the sounds of the marsh answered, croaking frogs and singing cicadas. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z “Doc’s paying us five cents apiece for those frogs. We’re going to get seven or eight hundred. How about taking a pint of Old Tennis Shoes just ’til we can get back with the frogs?” Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z Omakayas wanted to ask her for a story, but she knew that her Nokomis always refused, no matter how hard they begged, until the last frog was safely sleeping in the ground. The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z In green silks the color of forest pools, in silks the color of frog and fern, they waited. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z The equipment of the expedition was slight: some long-handled frog nets and some gunny sacks. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z 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 When the frog asked, “When shall I become a princess?” they answered, “When you are ready.” Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z It was not the frog’s fault, he realized, and gently he replaced the small green creature in the tall ferns and watched the fronds tremble as it moved away, unaware. Messenger 2004-04-26T00:00:00Z She figured out how to throw knives and make poisoned arrows from the skins of frogs, to sneak up on prey twice her size and track targets in the dark. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z Having removed a frog from the pool with a long-handled net, he walked to the end of the diving board and stopped. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z That night two frogs the size of year-old babies appeared in his room. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z “Them frogs ought to be right here, right in the middle of the room with a piece of bunting on it and a sign that says, ‘Welcome Home, Doc.’” Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z But the frog had almost given up on its wish. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z Our materials being, you know, the dead frog and such. The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z We rode a long time in the glow of it, everything silent except for the crickets and the frogs who were revving up for twilight. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z Only one hope now — McNab had to grab the frog and tag the runner out. Maniac Magee 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z Only sound besides Ernie’s snoring was about a million crickets, and a million frogs playing Pete and Repeat with the crickets. As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z The Labrador did his best and tried to initiate the other into the art of frog and field mouse hunting, but the terrier’s eyesight was too poor for him to have much success. The Incredible Journey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z He’d gone with a familiar mix, heavy on worms and frogs. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z From time to time, a frog croaked and plopped into the water, alarmed by the slow approach of the drifting boat. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z The third night thirty small frogs were sitting on his mat and staring at him with their frog eyes. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z Then Twig leaned in close to the frog’s stomach and shouted, “Holy cow! Holy cow!” The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z Hysterically the frogs displaced from their placid spots swam ahead of the crazy thrashing feet and the feet came on. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z It bolted the log whole, like a frog getting a cricket down into its gullet. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z There—a long-legged racing dog, a face of an old woman, a raccoon’s face, a frog, Omakayas’ namesake. The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z Herbert held one of the squirming, leggy frogs in one hand. Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z They watched the darkness fall softly and the first stars begin to twinkle in the sky, listened to the croaking of the frogs, and kept their silence. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z But in Lee’s packing case the frogs were piling up too. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z I listened to the frogs and the crickets and the cicadas. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z Horse cleared his throat and let fly a frog. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z “Will you let us take your old truck to go up Carmel Valley for frogs for Doc—for good old Doc?” Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z Bando unfolds his collapsible fishing rod, and I gather cattail tubers and catch a mess of frogs for dinner. On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z Jack went into his garage and pulled out an old plastic baby pool that looked like a frog and dragged it into the backyard. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z Sounds of tree frogs and cicadas filled the still night. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z And so it went, the frog cheerfully insisting to all in the meadow that it was a princess-in-waiting, until one day, a real princess strutted into the meadow, proud and vain. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z I saw us quite clearly, as there were no longer any frogs to plop in the water and break the mirror with circles and ripples. My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z The frog hopped a ways off and continued his bellowing. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z “Thanks,” I said, setting the frog on my desk and grabbing my present for her. The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z “Doc pays us a nickel a frog and we got about a thousand.” Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z One afternoon, Dallas and Florida gathered up dozens of ants, seven spiders, two garter snakes, and a frog, and that evening they deposited these treasures in the beds of the Burgerton boys. Ruby Holler 2002-02-01T00:00:00Z She started crying, man was she crying, and I could tell it wasn’t just about the frogs. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z Then, after a moment, while Matty knelt, still mystified by what was happening, the frog’s body twitched. Messenger 2004-04-26T00:00:00Z She turned a corner and found Brooke sitting on the floor in one aisle, staring at a robust yellow frog on a low shelf. Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z When he said open up, I pictured him ripping open my chest and exposing all my organs, like a dead frog on a lab table. The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z The baby in the first bottle had a large white head bent over a tiny curled-up body the size of a frog. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z In the morning I added: “It is quite true. The can is dry, and thick with a black substance. It is very salty, and I tried it on frogs’ legs for breakfast. My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z We didn’t have a tent, we just lay under the stars, nestled inside the Millers’ fluffy sleeping bags, serenaded by frogs, the fire we’d cooked the dogs on dying out by our feet. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z The chocolate ants and frogs’ legs were gone in no time. The Pigman 1968-10-12T00:00:00Z One morning while Lyddie was churning, just as the cream was breaking into curdles, the cook told Lyddie about the two frogs who fell into the pail of milk. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z There is a lovely story in Sanskrit, Sen added, about a frog that is born in a well and stays in the well and lives its entire life in the well. The World Is Flat 2005-04-05T00:00:00Z |
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