tree-toad

Then, as he wended his way, by swamp and stream and awful woodland, to the farmhouse where he happened to be quartered, every sound of nature, at that witching hour, fluttered his excited imagination: the moan of the whip-poor-will54 from the hillside; the boding cry of the tree-toad, that harbinger of storm; the dreary hooting of the screech-owl, or the sudden rustling in the thicket of birds frightened from their roost.

The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon 2002

Then as he wended his way by swamp and stream and awful woodland, to the farm-house where he happened to be quartered, every sound of nature, at that witching hour, fluttered his excited imagination, -- the moan of the whippoorwill from the hillside, the boding cry of the tree-toad, that harbinger of storm, the dreary hooting of the screech-owl, or the sudden rustling in the thicket of birds frightened from their roost.

Short Stories and Selections for Use in the Secondary Schools Emilie Kip Baker

For so burly a man, and one with such a chest for the stowage of sea-breezes and monsoons, the skipper was provided with a wonderfully small voice, suggesting, as he lectured upon sea-fishing to the novices who were getting into "snarls" with their tackle hard by where he sat, the circumstance of a tree-toad discoursing from the hollow of a brave old oak.

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 07, No. 40, February, 1861 Various

Two of the nuggets were long and flat, as large as a tree-toad, and much the shape of one.

A Woman who went to Alaska May Kellogg Sullivan

As he began his speech, a tree-toad that had dropped down out of the tree thought to return to its lookout to see if rain were coming.

The Lincoln Story Book Henry Llewellyn Williams

It is clear that the factors that direct the development of a wood frog's egg so that it becomes a wood-frog and not a tree-toad must lie in the egg itself, as derivatives from the two parent organisms.

The Doctrine of Evolution Its Basis and Its Scope Henry Edward Crampton

Night had come, and with it the insistent chorus of tree-toad and katydid, interspersed with the song of the vesper sparrow.

Seven Miles to Arden Ruth Sawyer 1925

Then, as he wended his way, by swamp and stream and awful woodland, to the farmhouse where he happened to be quartered, every sound of nature, at that witching hour, fluttered his excited imagination: the moan of the whip-poor-will1from the hill-side; the boding cry of the tree-toad, that harbinger of storm; the dreary hooting of the screech-owl, or the sudden rustling in the thicket of birds frightened from their roost.

The Legend of Sleepy Hollow 1917

The glyph for this tree-toad god is recognized in the fifth place at the top of the same page (Pl. 8, fig. 2) by the same two black lines under and behind the eye.

Animal Figures in the Maya Codices 1915

God F representing a tree-toad (_Hyla eximia_), Tro-Cortesianus

Animal Figures in the Maya Codices 1915