toad-fish

The next morning saw the NAUTILUS scudding before a strong south-east breeze, Jim, true to his name, sulky as a toad-fish.

Tropic Days 2003

The heads and entrails of the cod-fish, thrown from the "flakes" into the water, attract thousands of the baser tribes, such as sculpins, flounders, and toad-fish, who feed themselves fat upon the offals, and enjoy a peaceful life under the clear waters of the harbor.

Acadia or, A Month with the Blue Noses Frederic S. Cozzens

A toad-fish looked like an enormous, swimming toad.

Lord Dolphin Harriet A. Cheever

The purple sea-urchins, queer round-shelled creatures covered with thorny spines, crowded together, and the ugly toad-fish hid in the green and brown seaweeds.

Stories of California Ella M. Sexton

Great flounders, those sub-marine buckwheat cakes; sculpins, bloated with rage and wind, like patriots out of office; toad-fish, savage and vindictive as Irishmen in a riot.

Acadia or, A Month with the Blue Noses Frederic S. Cozzens

The next morning saw the NAUTILUS scudding before a strong south-east breeze, Jim, true to his name, sulky as a toad-fish.

Tropic Days 1887

"If it comes to that, why didn't you blow yours, you crew of pirates -- you rank mess of toad-fish?"

An Iceland Fisherman Pierre Loti 1886

There's a fish at Bermuda that is known as the toad-fish (so Alfonso told me), and when you tickle it it blows itself out after the manner of the frog who tried to be as big as an ox.

We and the World, Part II A Book for Boys Juliana Horatia Gatty Ewing 1863

The _Pexe-rey_ (king-fish) is superior in flavor to the _Pexe-sapo_ (toad-fish), which is a little larger, and has

Travels in Peru, on the Coast, in the Sierra, Across the Cordilleras and the Andes, into the Primeval Forests Johann Jakob von Tschudi 1853

Some species of fish are poisonous at all seasons, as the toad-fish

The History of Tasmania, Volume I John West 1840