"Toad" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... it is a trait of character which is quite too much neglected in female education. It is not only lamentable, but pitiable, to see a female of twenty, thirty, or fifty years of age, shrinking at the sight of a spider, or a toad, even when there is not the smallest prospect of its coming within three yards of her. Nor is it as it should be, when a young woman, already eighteen or twenty years of age, has such a dread of pigs and cows, as to scream aloud at the sight of one in a field, so well enclosed that it is ...
— The Young Woman's Guide • William A. Alcott
... rather be a toad, And live upon the vapour of a dungeon, Than keep a corner in the thing I love ...
— Anna St. Ives • Thomas Holcroft
... my wounds healed and my strength returned. If it was a dark and noisome prison, if there were hunger and thirst and inaction to be endured, if we knew not how near to us might be a death of ignominy, yet the minister and I found the jewel in the head of the toad; for in that time of pain and heaviness we ...
— To Have and To Hold • Mary Johnston
... love what gives us pleasure, and what more pleasing than a beautiful face—when we know no harm of the possessor at least? A little girl loves her bird—Why? Because it lives and feels; because it is helpless and harmless? A toad, likewise, lives and feels, and is equally helpless and harmless; but though she would not hurt a toad, she cannot love it like the bird, with its graceful form, soft feathers, and bright, speaking eyes. If a woman is fair and amiable, she is praised for both qualities, but ...
— Agnes Grey • Anne Bronte
... Edwards, absently, paying most attention to a toad which had hopped out form the cover of a budock leaf, in search ...
— The Red Acorn • John McElroy
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