toad-eating

And I remember thinking, as I waited trembling for the order that would launch me after Lew towards the Light Brigade, where they sat at rest on the turf eight hundred feet below - this, I reflected bitterly, is what comes of hanging about pool halls and toad-eating Prince Albert.

The Sky Writer Geoff Barbanell 2010

Lonely for King, unimproved by the mineral-spring baths Charcot had prescribed, Hay found Cannes “a madness of toad-eating gaiety.”

The Five of Hearts Patricia O'Toole 2008

Lonely for King, unimproved by the mineral-spring baths Charcot had prescribed, Hay found Cannes “a madness of toad-eating gaiety.”

The Five of Hearts Patricia O'Toole 2008

I put it down to natural toad-eating on his part, for I was the lion of the hour in those days, with my new knighthood and V.C., and all my Mutiny heroics to add to the fame I had undeservedly won in Crimea and Afghanistan.

Flashman and the Dragon Fraser, George MacDonald, 1925- 1985

I put it down to natural toad-eating on his part, for I was the lion of the hour in those days, with my new knighthood and V.C., and all my Mutiny heroics to add to the fame I had undeservedly won in Crimea and Afghanistan.

Flashman And The Dragon Fraser, George MacDonald, 1925- 1985

I put it down to natural toad-eating on his part, for I was the lion of the hour in those days, with my new knighthood and V.C., and all my Mutiny heroics to add to the fame I had undeservedly won in Crimea and Afghanistan.

Flashman and the Dragon Fraser, George MacDonald, 1925- 1985

The prince extended his royal hand in token of amity; Ali-Ninpha declared me to be his "son;" while the long string of compliments and panegyrics he pronounced upon my personal qualities, moral virtues, and _wealth_, brought down a roar of grunts by way of applause from the toad-eating courtiers.

Captain Canot or, Twenty Years of an African Slaver Theodore Canot

After having hurried us by their cowardice and Southern toad-eating into this war; after urging it by their contemptible procrastination to its present tremendous proportions, they cry out

The Continental Monthly, Vol. 2, No. 1, July, 1862 Various

Without all the qualities which made him the jest and the torment of those among whom he lived, without the officiousness, the inquisitiveness, the effrontery, the toad-eating, the insensibility to all reproof, he never could have produced so excellent a book.

The Bed-Book of Happiness Harold Begbie 1900

Without all the qualities which made him the jest and the torment of those among whom he lived, without the officiousness, the inquisitiveness, the effrontery, the toad-eating, the insensibility to all reproof, he never could have produced so excellent a book.

Famous Reviews R. Brimley Johnson 1899