Tree Frog

Word TREE FROG
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And this one, the lanky one with satiric eyebrows, who murmurs knowingly in his comrade's ear: she sees him sniggering behind the rabbi's back, cupping a tree-frog in scum-stained hands. ❋ Unknown (2008)

Among the most notable of these species: the python Morelia carinata was described as recently as 1981 and is still known only from a handful of records; the splendid tree-frog (Litoria splendida) is an exceptionally large green frog with white spotting; the scaly-tailed possum is an unusual possum in a monotypic genus; and the black grass-wren is confined to hummock grasslands in especially rugged sandstone environments. ❋ Unknown (2007)

I called again and again, and waited for some response; and heard only the familiar night-sounds — voices of insect and bird and tinkling tree-frog, and a low murmur in the topmost foliage, moved by some light breath of wind unfelt below. ❋ Unknown (2004)

What meat did I ever have except an occasional fledgling, killed in its cradle, or a lizard, or small tree-frog detected, in spite of its green colour, among the foliage? ❋ Unknown (2004)

One of the most curious and interesting reptiles which I met with in Borneo was a large tree-frog, which was brought me by one of the Chinese workmen. ❋ Unknown (2004)

I am inclined to pin myself down most firmly there before the loaf at breakfast with my wife, who being now entirely my wife and not at all the girl who wore when she hoped to meet me a certain rose, gave me that feeling of existing in the midst of unconsciousness such as the tree-frog must have couched on the right shade of green leaf. ❋ Unknown (2003)

A tree-frog squeaks and grunts; some alert insect chirps, loud and clear; another calls furtively, in a dismal tone, half whisper, half whistle; a wallaby thuds ahead; a lizard makes a scatter among the leaves; a bird in fright flutters, blundering, among the leaves high overhead; the flying-foxes squeak and gibber among the fig-trees, as they say the ghosts did in the streets of Rome when great Caesar died. ❋ Unknown (2003)

A tree-frog which was sitting among the bushes, when he heard that, cried a warning, ❋ Unknown (2003)

A green tree-frog was enmeshed and struggling in the web's sticky strands, but the spider appeared disinterested. ❋ Hobb, Robin (1998)

In our last battle, that of Slaughter's Mountain, we had noticed, for the first time, a singular noise made by some of the shells fired at us, and quite like the shrill note of a tree-frog on a big scale. ❋ Edward A. Moore (N/A)

But it was equally evident that neither the action of the surrounding conditions, nor the will of the organisms (especially in the case of plants) could account for the innumerable cases in which organisms of every kind are beautifully adapted to their habits of life -- for instance, a woodpecker or a tree-frog to climb trees, or a seed for dispersal by hooks or plumes. ❋ Unknown (N/A)

The tree-frog blew his alto horn; the jar-fly clashed his tinkling cymbals; the woodpecker rattled his kettledrum, and the locust jingled his tambourine. ❋ Robert L. Taylor (N/A)

Song -- shrill, lively call resembling the voice of the tree-frog. ❋ Lenore Elizabeth Mulets (N/A)

Soon the green alone was dominant; and when I had finished thinking of pleasant, far-off green things, the wonderful emerald of my great tree-frog of last year came to mind, -- Gawain the mysterious, -- and I wondered if I should ever solve his life. ❋ William Beebe (1919)

In a reasonable scheme of earthly things he filled the niche of a giant green tree-frog, and one of us seemed to remember that the Knight Gawain was enamored of green, and so we dubbed him. ❋ William Beebe (1919)

I liked to wait until the last ripple had lapped against the sand beneath, and then slip quietly in from the margin of the jungle and perch -- like a great tree-frog -- on some convenient shelf. ❋ William Beebe (1919)

Miller told of a little tree-frog in Colombia which swalled itself out with air until it looked like the frog in Æsop’s fables, and then brayed like a mule; and Cherrie told of a huge frog in Guiana that uttered a short, loud roar. ❋ Unknown (1914)

But little Hyla, the tree-frog, was nothing daunted. ❋ Dallas Lore Sharp (1899)

The OCCIDENTAL called me a fifth-rate kerb-stone broker with water on the brain; another said I was a tree-frog that had got into the same meadow with Longhurst, and had blown myself out till I went pop. ❋ Unknown (1898)

Miller told of a little tree-frog in Colombia which swelled itself out with air until it looked like the frog in Aesop's fables, and then brayed like a mule; and Cherrie told of a huge frog in Guiana that uttered a short, loud roar. ❋ Theodore Roosevelt (1888)

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