frogess

Example Sentences

• "The night was warm, the pool was still, / No sound was heard from lake or hill, / Save where, upon a log decayed, / A bull-frog croaked his serenade: / Wake, frogess of my love, awake, / And listen to my song; / The heron roosts far from the lake, / The pickerel his rest doth take / The water-weeds among. // The sun has put his fire out, / The daylight’s hardly seen, / No enemy is round about; / Then frogess poke thy lovely snout / Above the waters green."
• "These superstitions and traditions were all odd and strange beliefs, which mingled the materialistic and the spiritual most incongruously; but they were not so degrading, and they were not so far from truth as the “enlightened” ideas respecting our origin, circulated in costly volumes during recent years, by authors whose Adam and Eve were frogs, formed from slime by the action of the sun, with a dash of electricity, and in which, from gratitude for their descent, their progeny for centuries, millenniums, or millionenniums wallowed. At last a frog or frogess—or both may have been required—became a little better than other animals of the same origin, and they pushed out of the slime, and became rats, or squirrels, or something else, while others degenerated at the same time into eels, and progressed upwards to serpents after their first decadence."
• "I was floating and gambolling, and showing off my varied talents for the edification of a couple of lovely young frogesses, and I somehow got separated from the rest of my mates, and found myself right over the other side of the pond.[…]I was doing my celebrated double summersault, and it occupied all my attention, so that for a moment I lost sight of the ladies. When I got my breath again they were gone. / I was amazed! Had they basely deserted me? Frogesses are as wicked flirts as women, sometimes."
• "In the issue of September 9th of The Angler, a paragraphist asks the question: Do frogs eat fish? The interrogatory at the head of this item may be considered by frog-eaters a very unsavory question to propound, for the reason that the frog, and frogess, Rana-pipiens and Rana-palustris, have been considered as very chaste in their eating habits; so select, indeed, as to eschew any and everything without the pale of respectability."
• "Daffodil intervened. “Is His Majesty always so—so playful?” / “He has been all his life much the same as now,” replied the Queen, “and so was his father, and they say his grandfather wasn’t very much different. There seems to be something that keeps the frogs of this Royal family of Grachidichika young—too young almost. It doesn’t seem to tell so much on the frogesses—what there have been of them in the last generations. It’s the dulness of the country, I believe.”"
• "Every evening at sunset Morty establishes himself in a retired and romantic mud-hole near his mother’s house, and serenades a young lady frogess who lives on the other side of the swamp (their parents are cruel, and won’t let them come any nearer than this)."