At the same time, spying a toadstool growing at the foot of the tree, he imagined it to be a half dollar, and made a grasp at it.
The toadstool was demolished under his hand, but Bob happening to clutch a pebble-stone at the same moment, thrust it into his pocket, fully persuaded he had secured his coin.
We might all dine here on fairy cake, Unless you fear the toadstool break.
Even Cap'n Bill's weight did not break his toadstool down, and when both were seated, they found that the Lonesome Duck had waddled away and was now at the water's edge.
Even as he spoke, the sailor-man felt something touch him from behind and, turning his head, he found a big toadstool in just the right place and of just the right size to sit upon.
Then it said: "Sometimes, when the sun is hot, I grow a toadstool to shelter me from its rays.
Then the toadstool began to get smaller and smaller, and it sank down close to the ground again and lowered the rabbit just like on an elevator in a store, and Uncle Wiggily was safe on earth once more.
They sat on the low toadstools, and the higher ones they used for tables, each one having a toadstooltable for himself, just like in a restaurant.
The alligator's claws almost had him, when all of a sudden thattoadstool quickly began to grow up tall.
I'll tell you this much, however, the toadstool story is very curious, if I do say so myself.
As he spoke he wedged himself between Grandfather Mole and the stem of the toadstool umbrella.
This toadstool is growing bigger all the time," Grandfather Mole explained.
They passed hundreds of dead birds, and on reaching the edge of the toadstool valley were not a little surprised to find that every toadstoolhad disappeared.
You need wait but a few moments for a proof of the fact in a pretty experiment, which, when once observed, will certainly be resorted to as a frequent pastime in leisure moments when the toadstool or mushroom is at hand.
With that he stepped to a toadstool close by, and, feeling under it, he drew out a toadstool thorn, invisible to mortal eyes.
Footnote 4: Young, James Harvey, The Toadstool Millionaires, A Social History of Patent Medicines in America before Federal Regulation.
The Toadstool Millionaires, A Social History of Patent Medicines in America Before Federal Regulation.
No black-spored toadstool is known to be poisonous.
So far as known no black-spored toadstool is unwholesome.
The first thing in deciding the nature of a toadstool is the sporeprint, made thus: Cut off the stem of the toadstool and lay the gills down on a piece of gray paper under a vessel of any kind.
To-morrow morning I will pick that toadstool or mushroom, as the case may be, take it up to the city, and ask him about it.
Eliza says that Mr. Bungwall's gardener told us it was a toadstool to keep us from picking it, and then stole it himself, because he knew that it was a mushroom.
He crouched beneath a squattoadstool and waited for the dawn.
The toadstoolcollapsed upon itself with a strange splashing sound.
A short while later he stumbled into one of the familiar toadstool forests and paused, uncertainly.
Despite his caution, his shoulder once touched a cream-colored toadstool stalk, giving the whole fungus a tiny shock.
He crouched under the nearest huge toadstool and waited for the dawn, listening dry-throated for the sound of death coming toward him through the night.
When the toadstool crashed to the ground, it crumbled into a dozen pieces, spattering the earth for yards all about with stinking stuff in which tiny, headless maggots writhed convulsively.
Below the picture of the toadstool was some writing.
What she saw on the paper was a crude drawing of a toadstool with a slight point rising from the centre of the toadstool.
For you know that wherever a Brownie sits, a toadstool must spring up for him to sit on.
So the track of the Brownie up the trunk became one long staircase of toadstool steps, some close, some far apart, but each showing where the Brownie had rested.
He had been whittling the edge of the toadstool with his knife, and now he slashed off a big piece of the cap, he was so mad.
Illustration: The Shamrock] So he made a rubber stamp out of part of the toadstool he was sitting on, and stamped every Clover leaf in that pasture, so the Cows could be sure, then skipped away to the ball game.
This had strange results, for there is a law in Brownie land, that wherever one of the little people stops to sit down, or rest, a toadstool must spring up for him to sit on.
Illustration] Just a little pause made he, when the sick smell of the nearest toadstool was felt and measured by his nose.
He rushed from one madcap toadstool to another, driving in his teeth, revelling in their flowing juices, like the blood of earthy gnomes, and rushed for joy up one tall tree after another.
This was toadstool time, and a scattered band of these embodied earth-sprites was spotting a sunlit bank with their smooth and blushing caps.
Under the toadstool Sound asleep, Sat a big Dormouse All in a heap.
Sudden the wee Elf Smiled a wee smile, Tugged till the toadstool Toppled in two.
The Elf and the Dormouse Under a toadstool Crept a wee Elf, Out of the rain, To shelter himself.
In his fright the Kid dropped his toadstool and stared back at the gray animal.
Bitterly disappointed, the Kid gazed up after her, still clutching the brighttoadstool to his breast.
In his fright the kid dropped his toadstool and stared back at the gray animal.
He was on the point of giving up the beautiful crimson toadstool and turning back home, when he saw a little gray bird hopping amid the lower limbs of a spruce in among the shadows.
Presently, standing out in conspicuous isolation, a great crimsontoadstool caught his eye.
Well--when men speak overquick and overfair, what is that but the toadstool that springs from their breath?
She had delivered her burden of vegetables and fruit at a shop near by, whose awning stretched out into the street like a toadstool yellow with the sun.
I wonder," said Josh, "that oldToadstool has not been up.
And sort of underneath the box were two, big toadstools, made into tables, and beside each table was a smaller toadstool for a seat.
They jumped down from the toadstool seats and upset the toadstool tables, and the dishes fell on the floor, but they didn't care.
You see that box, with the nice things to eat on the toadstool tables, was only a trap.
He also secured a huge dry toadstool as large as his two fists.
The child stood quite still, with her hands clasped, thinking harder than she had ever thought in all her life before; and the Green Man sat on the toadstool and watched her, with eyes which twinkled with some amusement, but no malice.
From every direction they were hurrying to the toadstool feast, to the banquet of horrible, liquefied fungus that lay spread upon the ground.
He peered between two cream-colored toadstool stalks and saw the cause of the noise.
And Burl sat crouched beneath an overshadowing toadstool and watched.
He found himself in one of the toadstool forests with which he was familiar, and finally paused, disconsolately.
He crouched beneath a squat toadstool and waited for the dawn, his club held tightly in his hands, and his ears alert for any sound of danger.
A wild stretch of sickly yellow fungus, here and there interspersed with a squat toadstoolor a splash of vivid color where one of the many "rusts" had found a foothold.
Strange orange, red, and purple molds clustered about the bases of the creamy toadstool stalks.
It fell with irregular, drumlike beats upon the tough top of the toadstool under which he had taken refuge.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "toadstool" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
