Song -- shrill, lively call resembling the voice of the tree-frog.    From Wordnik.com.  [Stories of Birds] Reference

A tree-frog which was sitting among the bushes, when he heard that, cried a warning.    From Wordnik.com.  [Household Tales] Reference

A green tree-frog was enmeshed and struggling in the web's sticky strands, but the spider appeared disinterested.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ship Of Magic]

One of the most curious and interesting reptiles which I met with in Borneo was a large tree-frog, which was brought me by one of the Chinese workmen.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Malay Archipelago] Reference

The tree-frog blew his alto horn; the jar-fly clashed his tinkling cymbals; the woodpecker rattled his kettledrum, and the locust jingled his tambourine.    From Wordnik.com.  [Gov. Bob. Taylor's Tales] Reference

What meat did I ever have except an occasional fledgling, killed in its cradle, or a lizard, or small tree-frog detected, in spite of its green colour, among the foliage?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Green Mansions] Reference

And this one, the lanky one with satiric eyebrows, who murmurs knowingly in his comrade's ear: she sees him sniggering behind the rabbi's back, cupping a tree-frog in scum-stained hands.    From Wordnik.com.  [Evan Eisenberg: Mary Christ (Part 6)] Reference

In our last battle, that of Slaughter's Mountain, we had noticed, for the first time, a singular noise made by some of the shells fired at us, and quite like the shrill note of a tree-frog on a big scale.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Story of a Cannoneer Under Stonewall Jackson] Reference

I called again and again, and waited for some response; and heard only the familiar night-sounds — voices of insect and bird and tinkling tree-frog, and a low murmur in the topmost foliage, moved by some light breath of wind unfelt below.    From Wordnik.com.  [Green Mansions] Reference

But little Hyla, the tree-frog, was nothing daunted.    From Wordnik.com.  [Roof and Meadow] Reference

This is the song of the tree-frog, sometimes called the tree-toad.    From Wordnik.com.  [Friends in Feathers and Fur, and Other Neighbors For Young Folks] Reference

Borneo was a large tree-frog, which was brought me by one of the Chinese workmen.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Malay Archipelago, the land of the orang-utan and the bird of paradise; a narrative of travel, with studies of man and nature — Volume 1] Reference

There are few other sounds, for it is winter, and the tree-frog and cicada are silent.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Scalp Hunters] Reference

I said, the small tree-frog, the piper of the marshes, repeating his spring note, but little changed, amid the trees?.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Writings of John Burroughs — Volume 05: Pepacton] Reference

The bi-coloured tree-frog (Phyllomedusa bicolour) is of considerable size, and is the only one of its family at present known.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Western World Picturesque Sketches of Nature and Natural History in North and South America] Reference

The color of the tree-frog is so much like that of the wood it clings to that it can not be seen unless we look very closely for it.    From Wordnik.com.  [Friends in Feathers and Fur, and Other Neighbors For Young Folks] Reference

'Is it a frog,' I said -- 'the small tree-frog, the piper of the marshes -- repeating his spring note but little changed amid the trees?'.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Dawn of Reason or, Mental Traits in the Lower Animals] Reference

Far up among the leaves of the oaks the little green tree-frog repeated his tinkling bell-like note that fell with a pleasant sound upon the ear.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Boy Hunters] Reference

Now, the Mackenzie-Whites claim their pond is almost silent, with just one male tree-frog that slipped the net still singing mournful solos through the night.    From Wordnik.com.  [frogblog] Reference

No color was left in the landscape but the dull red hue of the dusk; even the birds had hushed their songs; the tree-frog alone sent forth its long, clear, melancholy note.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Village Rector] Reference

Unfamiliar insects make trilling noises in dark places; and now and then a series of soft clear notes ring out, almost like a thrush's whistle: the chant of a little tree-frog.    From Wordnik.com.  [Two Years in the French West Indies] Reference

At midnight a tree-frog ( "Simook," Lepcha) broke the silence with his curious metallic clack, and others quickly joined the chorus, keeping up their strange music till morning.    From Wordnik.com.  [Himalayan Journals — Complete] Reference

In a reasonable scheme of earthly things he filled the niche of a giant green tree-frog, and one of us seemed to remember that the Knight Gawain was enamored of green, and so we dubbed him.    From Wordnik.com.  [Edge of the Jungle] Reference

I liked to wait until the last ripple had lapped against the sand beneath, and then slip quietly in from the margin of the jungle and perch -- like a great tree-frog -- on some convenient shelf.    From Wordnik.com.  [Edge of the Jungle] Reference

The OCCIDENTAL called me a fifth-rate kerb-stone broker with water on the brain; another said I was a tree-frog that had got into the same meadow with Longhurst, and had blown myself out till I went pop.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Wrecker] Reference

Since we left St.Louis. the Second Species of Snake of an inosent kind already discribd. the Common black Lizzard, the horned Lizzard, a small green tree-frog; the Same frog which is common to our Country which.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Journals of Lewis and Clark, 1804-1806] Reference

On moonlight evenings the tremulous, haunting cry of the screech-owl comes to your ears, always from far away, and if you walk through the chestnut grove aforesaid in the daytime you may chance to catch his faint, vibratory, tree-frog whistle.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Foot-path Way] Reference

Soon the green alone was dominant; and when I had finished thinking of pleasant, far-off green things, the wonderful emerald of my great tree-frog of last year came to mind, -- Gawain the mysterious, -- and I wondered if I should ever solve his life.    From Wordnik.com.  [Edge of the Jungle] Reference

Wonderful rains here yesterday and last night, and I woke to a sound I’ve missed for months: a tree-frog chorus!.    From Wordnik.com.  [Firedoglake » Dodging CIPA Graymail Bullets…And Other Legal Notes] Reference

Her feet remind me of a tree-frog.    From Wordnik.com.  [EXTRALIFE – By Scott Johnson - This girl’s feet are freaking AWESOME!!!] Reference

The skin of the tree-frog secretes a poisonous matter. ".    From Wordnik.com.  [Aventures d'un jeune naturaliste. English] Reference

"One of the most curious and interesting creatures which I met with in Borneo was a large tree-frog which was brought me by one of the Chinese workmen.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Common Frog] Reference

So, also, the tree-frog cries before rain.    From Wordnik.com.  [Scouting For Girls, Official Handbook of the Girl Scouts] Reference

Or wooden squeak of tree-frog as it grieves.    From Wordnik.com.  [The California Birthday Book] Reference

"He's been after a tree-frog," she explained.    From Wordnik.com.  [Dickey Downy The Autobiography of a Bird] Reference