These loud-piping frogs make the mantlet to ring. It seems to be the very metropolis of frogdom.

But it found a place in evil incantations accompanying certain rituals used by necromancers, treasure-hunters, and the like.

The quiverings of incipient harmony were hushed, and the divine sat in speechless and almost terrified astonishment, while she undid the door, and stood up in the sacred desk from which his maledictions had just been thundered.

The Guatemalans offered United Fruit $627,572 (about $2.99 an acre) in compensation, a figure that came from the company's own tax value assessment for the land.