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  • Stage one involved me laying down my atonal croakings over the instrumental tracks, singing all the parts badly.

    Archive 2009-09-01 Hal Duncan 2009

  • Stage one involved me laying down my atonal croakings over the instrumental tracks, singing all the parts badly.

    For a Lark Hal Duncan 2009

  • RC: I was fortunate enough to contribute some croakings to the H.P. Lovecraft

    Archive 2009-08-01 2009

  • His voice, shrill and piping, ever and again dropped plummet-like into a hoarse and rattling bass, and, just as one became accustomed to it, soaring upward into the thin treble — alternate cricket chirpings and bullfrog croakings, as it were.

    THE SICKNESS OF LONE CHIEF 2010

  • RC: I was fortunate enough to contribute some croakings to the H.P. Lovecraft

    Lovecraft Paragraphs : The Lovecraft News Network 2009

  • The tumult did not dissipate when the Vincennes lead the small flotilla out into the Atlantic, but at least its departure, observed Lieutenant George Foster Emmons of the Peacock, “silenced all the croakings of such incredulous individuals as were in the constant habit of affirming that the Expedition never could leave the waters of the United States.”

    United States Exploring Expedition 2009

  • I'm tired of Edith Piaf and her melancholy croakings, I'm tired of the legend of Josephine Baker taking Paris by storm, I'm fed up hearing and reading about the whole Coco Chanel saga -- can't somebody cook up some fresh nostalgia?

    Paris Then, Paris Now: James Wolcott Wolcott, James, 1952- 2009

  • I have no fear that the walls of the Birmingham and Midland Institute will ever tremble responsive to the croakings of the timid opponents of intellectual progress; but in this connexion generally I cannot forbear from offering a remark which is much upon my mind.

    Speeches: Literary and Social 2007

  • But why should I feel as if baited by these stupid, slow-witted Arabs and their warnings and croakings?

    How I Found Livingstone Henry Morton 2004

  • * How to be stupid enough to be recorded doing so, and then tellingly avoid denying the charges in favor of paranoid croakings about some political conspiracy by the left wing, even if you claim to be a completely independent person with in an interest in fair and balanced.

    Archive 2004-10-17 2004

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