hoptoads

"Great jumping hoptoads!" yelled Ned above the riot of racket outside and inside.

Tom Swift and His War Tank, or, Doing His Bit for Uncle Sam Victor [pseud.] Appleton

Now, if the elephant doesn't get a sliver in his foot so he can't dance at the hoptoads 'picnic, I'll tell you in the next story about Uncle Wiggily and the peanut man.

Uncle Wiggily's Travels Howard Roger Garis 1917

"Katydids, hoptoads, and other carnivorous animals."

The Harvester 1911

Worshipin 'cows and -- and henhawks and -- and cats and bugs and -- and hoptoads and clams, for what _I_ know!

Galusha the Magnificent Joseph Crosby Lincoln 1907

The fact that they were on an English ship, bound for England, brought the monocles out of their concealment, as Hephzy said, "like hoptoads after the first spring thaw."

Kent Knowles: Quahaug Joseph Crosby Lincoln 1907

"Katydids, hoptoads, and other carnivorous animals."

The Harvester Gene Stratton-Porter 1893

And you'll see me among these butterflies and hoptoads no more. "

The Fashionable Adventures of Joshua Craig; a Novel David Graham Phillips 1889