tree-frogs

And worth it, worth it, all that forever-evening, with a girl, a real girl (she could prove it) for all the long end of the evening; and all the way home love! of here and of now, and spring of course, and oh of course love! said the tree-frogs, the lilacs, the air, and the way sweat dried on him.

Arcana Magi - c.1: Oryn Zentharis, Seeker of the Truth 2010

He was staring elsewhere, listening to the tree-frogs and the wind.

2005 Cherryh, C. J. 2005

Iguanas and lizards of several species, marsh-frogs, and green tree-frogs abound.

The Golden Chersonese and the way thither Isabella Lucy 2004

She listened to the songs of crickets and tree-frogs, the murmur of voices in the houses nearest hers, and the distant rushing of the river.

Owlsight Lackey, Mercedes 1998

In the crumbling walls of the sunken garden lived dozens of little black scorpions, shining and polished as if they had been made out of bakelite; in the fig - and lemon-trees just below the garden were quantities of emerald-green tree-frogs, like delicious satiny sweets among the leaves; up on the hillside lived snakes of various sorts, brilliant lizards and tortoises.

My Family and Other Animals Durrell, Gerald, 1925- 1956

Down by the well the tree-frogs croaked excitedly to each other.

My Family and Other Animals Durrell, Gerald, 1925- 1956

The observations of Newton on the relations between a falling stone and the moon, of Galvani on the convulsive movements of frogs 'legs in contact with iron and copper, of Darwin on the adaptation of woodpeckers, of tree-frogs, and of seeds to their surroundings, of

Human Traits and their Social Significance Irwin Edman

He caught dozens of tree-frogs, for one thing, and shut them all up together in the drawing-room coal-scuttle, where he peeped at them from time to time, well satisfied.

Lippincott's Magazine Of Popular Literature And Science Old Series, Vol. 36—New Series, Vol. 10, July 1885 Various

The dingoes howled persistently in the woods below, and quite close there was the incessant "croak-croak-croak-croak" of tree-frogs, together with many other inexplicable and weird noises.

Queensland Cousins Eleanor Luisa Haverfield

I thought of vineyards and orchards, of skies intensely blue, of scorching sunshine, of the tumultuous chirping of cicadas and grasshoppers, and then of the tepid nights crowded with glittering stars and hushed except for the piping of tree-frogs.

Combed Out Frederick Augustus Voigt 1924