pollywogs

"The effect of the copper-sulphate treatment on the different animal life was as follows: numerous 'pollywogs' killed, but no frogs; numerous small (less than two inches long) black bass and two large ones (eight inches long) killed; about ten large 'bullheads' were killed, but no small ones; numerous small (less than two inches long) 'sunfish' were killed, but no large ones.

The Home Medical Library, Volume V (of VI) Kenelm Winslow

"There was a pond nearby, and I used to bring home a pickle jar filled with pollywogs," she says.

Nancy Ruhling: Astoria Characters: The Wild Things' Foster Mom Nancy Ruhling 2011

And walking through a marshy area in the morning on my way to school, I'd lie down at the edge of the vernal pond and look at fairy shrimp, large fresh water crustaceans, swimming on their backs; water beetles; pollywogs swimming around and others wriggling out of the jelly mass of the egg cluster.

Anis Shivani: Exclusive: Beat Poet Michael McClure On Jim Morrison, The Doors, Allen Ginsberg, Jack Kerouac Anis Shivani 2011

Charles and Eve were so thirsty and exhausted that schools of transparent pollywogs were swimming around their heads.

Here Comes Another Lesson Stephen O’Connor 2010

They would cancer outward, pollywogs of islands of questions.

The Best American Poetry 2010 Amy Gerstler 2010

They would cancer outward, pollywogs of islands of questions.

The Best American Poetry 2010 Amy Gerstler 2010

They would cancer outward, pollywogs of islands of questions.

The Best American Poetry 2010 Amy Gerstler 2010

Veteran sailors called shellbacks shave the heads of the uninitiated pollywogs.

The Attack on the Liberty James Scott 2009

The day before the ceremony, Armstrong met in secret with a dozen of his fellow pollywogs.

The Attack on the Liberty James Scott 2009

The pollywogs climb through an approximately thirty-foot chute made from a tarp and filled with rotting trash and food waste as sailors heckle and paddle them.

The Attack on the Liberty James Scott 2009