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Croaking in pain, the Rillyti dropped its spear to tear the needle from its eyesocket in a spray of ichor, its convulsive gesture ripping a jagged wound through the orbit.
Science Fiction, Fantasy, Horror: Bloodstone - Karl Edward Wagner Blue Tyson 2009
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It was called "The Croaking Fascist and the Armband Variations," and one of its highlights was a scene of a Jew spanking Hitler with a menorah.
Jeff Dorchen: Holocaust, Shmolocaust - Just Fix the Car, I'll Wait in the Ashtray 2008
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The British of the Raj had a word for it: "Croaking."
Hullabaloo 2006
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The British of the Raj had a word for it: "Croaking."
Hullabaloo 2006
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The British of the Raj had a word for it: "Croaking."
Hullabaloo 2005
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Croaking Frog came along, a jump, three long strides, and a jump again.
Old Peter's Russian Tales Arthur Ransome 1925
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"Croaking a bank watchman up in Montana afther he'd souped the vault door for a kick-shot."
The Honorable Senator Sage-Brush Francis Lynde 1893
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Croaking of Peter, the boy who didn't believe there were hoodoos,
Songs and Other Verse Eugene Field 1872
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To judge only by their notes, they should belong to the Croaking Birds, and not to the Singers at all; but they have a regular music-box in the throat, only it is out of order, and won't play tunes.
Citizen Bird Scenes from Bird-Life in Plain English for Beginners Elliott Coues 1870
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"Croaking?" repeated John Want, with the air of a man who considered himself the object of a gratuitous insult.
The Frozen Deep Wilkie Collins 1856
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