1 I know what "it" means well enough, when I find a thing,' said the Duck: 'it's generally a frog or a worm.
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland By Lewis CarrollContext Highlight In CHAPTER III. A Caucus-Race and a Long Tale 2 It was opened by another footman in livery, with a round face, and large eyes like a frog; and both footmen, Alice noticed, had powdered hair that curled all over their heads.
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland By Lewis CarrollContext Highlight In CHAPTER VI. Pig and Pepper 3 I shot head-first off of the bank like a frog, clothes and all on, and struck out for the canoe.
4 The frog called after her, 'Stay, princess, and take me with you as you said,' But she did not stop to hear a word.
Grimms' Fairy Tales By Jacob and Wilhelm GrimmContext Highlight In THE FROG-PRINCE 5 Then the princess ran to the door and opened it, and there she saw the frog, whom she had quite forgotten.
Grimms' Fairy Tales By Jacob and Wilhelm GrimmContext Highlight In THE FROG-PRINCE 6 And when the princess opened the door the frog came in, and slept upon her pillow as before, till the morning broke.
Grimms' Fairy Tales By Jacob and Wilhelm GrimmContext Highlight In THE FROG-PRINCE 7 'Toor rul lol loo, gammon and spinnage, the frog he wouldn't, and high cockolorum,' said the Dodger: with a slight sneer on his intellectual countenance.
8 Had the child been there he would have said that a second frog had jumped in; but by most people the sound would have been likened to the fall of a stone into the water.
Return of the Native By Thomas HardyContext Highlight In BOOK 1: 6 The Figure against the Sky 9 One night, we were cutting open the body of a dead frog when we saw its leg jerking.
10 The frog had been hanging on a wire of copper; and it had been the metal of our knife which had sent the strange power to the copper through the brine of the frog's body.
11 When the frog was got in, it hopped at once half the length of the boat, and then over my head, backward and forward, daubing my face and clothes with its odious slime.
12 Watching him from under her lashes, Scarlett thought detachedly that he looked like a gigged frog.
13 Sugar a frog as much as you like, but never shall it pass MY lips.
14 There are shadows enough for hell, and mire enough to render it nothing but a slough, and the dying man knows not whether he is on the point of becoming a spectre or a frog.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 3: CHAPTER V—IN THE CASE OF SAND AS IN THAT OF WOMAN, THERE ... 15 I play with frogs so much that I've always got considerable many warts.