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Houssay has worked chiefly with dogs and a large kind of toad,
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"The most beautiful woman is not always at hand," said the toad,
Grimm's Fairy Stories Gebr��der Grimm 1909
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"Ah, that," answered the Burglar, shrugging his shoulders and spreading out his hands, palms upward, so that he looked like a gigantic toad,
Fighting For Peace Henry Van Dyke 1892
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These curious appendages to the persons or wardrobe of an individual, are sometilues made of the skin of an otter, a beaver, a musk-rat, a weazel, a racoon, a polecat sabble, a frog, a toad,
Letters and notes on the manners, customs, and conditions of the North American Indians 1841
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It brought about something like a physical reaction, which checked her emotion; Mme. Fontaine's toad,
Cousin Pons Honor�� de Balzac 1824
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The most provoking part of all is, (for I am mighty soon comforted when a hero tumbles from the top of Fame's steeple and breaks his neck,) that that tawdry toad,
The Letters of Horace Walpole, Earl of Orford — Volume 2 Horace Walpole 1757
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And speaking of mindless, fact-free propaganda, the leader of this protest, Robin Acree, posts on the blog of the odious America-hating toad,
Light Steve 2010
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The fact that Vaughn thinks some woman was turned on by that little toad,
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Besides the species listed in the report, Huta points out that climate change is dangerous to a host of other species such as the Pacific walrus, the pika, the wolverine, the Boreal toad,
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Philip Seymour Hoffman's directing debut, a 3-D documentary about the Australian cane toad,
NYT > Home Page 2009
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