"There's only one more thing I can think of," he croaked, "that would make it impossible for me to be here.
"It's a-going to be the worst freshet that's happened since you were born," their caller croaked.
"Don't cry, beautiful Princess," croaked the frog.
He put down a blanket as frogs croaked in the distance.
" he croaked.
"I miss Father, and Mother too," he croaked.
"Bas," he croaked.
"He took Sohrab a month ago," Zaman finally croaked, hands still shielding his face.
All of you," Baba croaked.
"It might have been the week before," he croaked.
"There," he croaked, red dripping down his face like blood.
A frog sat down beside it, and croaked, "wat, wat, wat.
" Then the peasant pinched the raven's head, so that he croaked and made a noise like krr, krr.
At length he croaked, I have it.
"Good evening," she croaked, pretending to be quite friendly.
A great black raven darted down in front of her on the high road, and croaked dismally.
But she had forgotten how soiled her clothes had become while in the Marsh Woman's brewery, and that they were covered with mud; a snake had also fastened itself in her hair, and hung down her back, while from each fold in her dress a great toad peeped out and croaked like an asthmatic poodle.
Crows and ravens croaked, as if in scorn, while the trees were cracking and falling around them.