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Updated: June 7, 2025
Again came that wicked punch in the small of Frank's back. "I'll remember," he said, hastily, as he turned as far out as the nature of the road permitted, and at the same time caused the horn to give a few croaks. It was another auto approaching, as the several lights announced. Frank's heart seemed to be in his throat as the two machines rapidly approached each other.
We made ourselves as snug as our means allowed in the arch of the dresser. I had just fastened our pinafores together, and hung them up for a curtain, when in comes Joseph, on an errand from the stables. He tears down my handiwork, boxes my ears, and croaks: "T' maister nobbut just buried, and Sabbath not o'ered, und t' sound o' t' gospel still i' yer lugs, and ye darr be laiking!
The situation of the old castle corresponds exactly to Shakspeare's description. While we were there to-day , it happened oddly, that a raven perched upon one of the chimney-tops, and croaked. Then I in my turn repeated "The raven himself is hoarse, That croaks the fatal entrance of Duncan, Under my battlements." 'I wish you had been with us.
The fire, which Murden had given orders to extinguish, was easily rekindled, and then burning brands were thrown upon the dry bushes and leaves, raising flames that roared aloft and caught at the branches of the gum trees, and then spread to the trunks, and leaped from bough to bough, driving parrots and gaudy-plumed birds from their nests, that vented their displeasure at being disturbed by uttering hoarse croaks of rage.
Across one of these thresholds I catch a glimpse to-night of a tired fisher girl stretched on her bed after her long day at sea. Beside the bed a very old woman in a white cotton cap bends over her bowl of soup by the wavering light of a tallow dip. "Bonsoir, monsieur!" croaks a hoarse voice from the dark. It is Marianne. She has fished late.
Am I to forget the wicked grin that widened his mouth, already distorted by pain? Am I sick because each time I hear the word "front" an echo, "man salad," inevitably croaks in my ears?
The brute was almost free, when the ravens rose with loud croaks, and out of the woods dashed another to join the fight. A smaller deer? No; what? Rolf knew not, nor how, but in a moment there was a savage growl and Skookum had the murderer by the hind leg.
But if you had to live in the country, you would grumble in a month's time. Even a bullfrog and he is brought up to it, poor wretch croaks at night." Colum interrupted. "That's not true, Flint. I know I'd like it to live on a farm and keep chickens. Sometimes in winter, or more often in spring, I can hardly wait for summer and my two weeks.
"He's dead." "So he is. I quite forgot. "He's in prison. But how about O'Caccianfierno?" Suddenly a withered hag croaks authoritatively: "I know! The gentleman wants O'Tentillo." Chorus of villagers: "Then why doesn't he say so?" O'Tentillo lives far, far away. An hour elapses; at last he comes, full of bright expectations. No, this is not your Luigi, he is another Luigi.
Occasionally, too, as in the case of the Arundels of Wardour, where a white owl is seen before the death of one of the family, they perform the function of clanogrians. Ravens A close rival of the owl in psychic significance is the raven, the subtle, cunning, ghostly raven that taps on window-panes and croaks dismally before a death or illness.
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