Then, as he wended his way, by swamp and stream and awful woodland, to the farmhouse where he happened to be quartered, every sound of nature, at that witching hour, fluttered his excited imagination: the moan of the whip-poor-will54 from the hillside; the boding cry of the tree-toad, that harbinger of storm; the dreary hooting of the screech-owl, or the sudden rustling in the thicket of birds frightened from their roost. ❋ Unknown (2002)
For so burly a man, and one with such a chest for the stowage of sea-breezes and monsoons, the skipper was provided with a wonderfully small voice, suggesting, as he lectured upon sea-fishing to the novices who were getting into "snarls" with their tackle hard by where he sat, the circumstance of a tree-toad discoursing from the hollow of a brave old oak. ❋ Various (N/A)
Then as he wended his way by swamp and stream and awful woodland, to the farm-house where he happened to be quartered, every sound of nature, at that witching hour, fluttered his excited imagination, -- the moan of the whippoorwill from the hillside, the boding cry of the tree-toad, that harbinger of storm, the dreary hooting of the screech-owl, or the sudden rustling in the thicket of birds frightened from their roost. ❋ Emilie Kip Baker (N/A)
Two of the nuggets were long and flat, as large as a tree-toad, and much the shape of one. ❋ May Kellogg Sullivan (N/A)
As he began his speech, a tree-toad that had dropped down out of the tree thought to return to its lookout to see if rain were coming. ❋ Henry Llewellyn Williams (N/A)
It is clear that the factors that direct the development of a wood frog's egg so that it becomes a wood-frog and not a tree-toad must lie in the egg itself, as derivatives from the two parent organisms. ❋ Henry Edward Crampton (N/A)
Night had come, and with it the insistent chorus of tree-toad and katydid, interspersed with the song of the vesper sparrow. ❋ Ruth Sawyer (1925)
Then, as he wended his way, by swamp and stream and awful woodland, to the farmhouse where he happened to be quartered, every sound of nature, at that witching hour, fluttered his excited imagination: the moan of the whip-poor-will1from the hill-side; the boding cry of the tree-toad, that harbinger of storm; the dreary hooting of the screech-owl, or the sudden rustling in the thicket of birds frightened from their roost. ❋ Unknown (1917)
The glyph for this tree-toad god is recognized in the fifth place at the top of the same page (Pl. 8, fig. 2) by the same two black lines under and behind the eye. ❋ Unknown (1915)
God F representing a tree-toad (_Hyla eximia_), Tro-Cortesianus ❋ Unknown (1915)
This fact is brought out more strongly when we consider that these gods representing the tree-toad are associated with agriculture and the sowing of grain at the beginning of the rainy season. ❋ Unknown (1915)
In this tree-toad there is a long black lateral line running posteriorly from the tympanum and above it a shorter line just as in the drawings. ❋ Unknown (1915)
Among the animals whose glyphs only seldom appear may be mentioned the macaw, the peccary, the tree-toad (god P), the quetzal, and the jaguar. ❋ Unknown (1915)
A huge tree-toad, the size of a bullfrog, was seated uprightnot squatted flaton a big rotten limb. ❋ Unknown (1914)
We have no lizard that destroys the bee; but our tree-toad, ambushed among the apple and cherry blossoms, snaps them up wholesale. ❋ Unknown (1914)
A tree-toad chirped, loudest in all the world of stillness. ❋ Stewart Edward White (1909)
The plaintive half-chirp, half-whistle of a tree-toad fell in monotonous repetition upon the ear. ❋ Annie Eliot Trumbull (1903)
And the tree-toad is a chef-doeuvre for the highest, ❋ Unknown (1900)
Your researches into the natural history of the tree-toad, your observations upon the mud-turtles of Providence Township, your experiments with the fresh-water lobster, all stimulated my enthusiasm in a scientific direction, which has crystallized in this helpful little book, dedicated to you. ❋ Unknown (1899)
