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Examples
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But it's not right of Pip to say you're a flat-footed bull-frog, I did tell him that.
Separate Douglas Light 2010
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Bloated and knackered, looking like a crimson bull-frog, he was tetchy and uncertain in the chair.
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I have been reluctant to look up this matter for fear of discovering that April is the month of the bull-frog or of pasta or of the thong or something vastly more interesting and marketable than poetry.
: Kwame Dawes : Harriet the Blog : The Poetry Foundation 2007
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Bloated and knackered, looking like a crimson bull-frog, he was tetchy and uncertain in the chair.
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The solemn silence of these pathless roads was broken only by the note of the distant bull-frog; meteors fell in streams of fire, the crescent moon occasionally gleamed behind clouds from which the lightning flashed almost continually, and the absence of any familiar faces made me realize at length that I was a stranger in a strange land.
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He was panting and a catch in his breath made him sound like a bull-frog.
The Quiet American Greene, Graham, 1904-1991 1955
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The old man, without intending it, was going too deep into a deep subject for the child to follow him, and so the latter told him about the bull-frog and the butterfly.
Types of Children's Literature Walter Barnes
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One thing I does know is dat in times gone by de bull-frog had
Types of Children's Literature Walter Barnes
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Can we hope that, in the far distant future, a baboon will write an epic equal to Milton's Paradise Lost, or a bull-frog compose an oratorio surpassing Handel's Messiah?
The Evolution of Man Scientifically Disproved In 50 Arguments
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He saw a big bull-frog creep warily from the water and wipe his mouth and eyes with one of his fore legs, and he saw the same frog edge himself softly toward
Types of Children's Literature Walter Barnes
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