What is "toadstool"

Usage examples of "toadstool".

Woen, Tiw, and Donar were cracked and gray, begrown with moss and toadstools.

In addition to rape, Selina is frightened of mice, spiders, dogs, toadstools, cancer, mastectomy, chipped mugs, ghost stories, visions, portents, fortune tellers, astrology columns, deep water, fires, floods, thrush, poverty, lightning, ectopic pregnancy, rust, hospitals, driving, swimming, flying and ageing.

So they crawled on persistently, and eventually, ahead of them over the desert, white tents glowed pink in the sunlight like toadstools in a great timberless pasture, and their first trip was nearing its end.

He splashed across the stream and went deep into the hardwoods, where round boulders protruded from the humus like the tops of toadstools.

There was this level space, and on it there were toadstools and milkweed, and there was food.

And anyway, they really ought to be called frogstools, not toadstools.

She hurried toward a fallen tree and crouched next to Giulia in front of a circle of velvety brown porcini, their toadstool tops large enough to shelter a fairy.

About twenty feet from the toadstool on which the girl stood was a clump of huge, jointed reedlike growths.

Red toadstools towered over my head, puff-balls dusted me with yellow spores, trumpetlike chanterelles dripped water from their cups, clusters of pin-head mushrooms glowed white like corpses.

When she tried to approach the judicial toadstool, however, it reached out to grip her upcurving tail in massive fingers, holding her back.

Invigorated by the absence of normal light, monstrous mushrooms and toadstools and liverworts clambered wildly over fallen logs and old stumps.

Somebody buys all the quack medicines that build palaces for the mushroom, say rather, the toadstool millionaires.

Humped bundles of supplies lay on low rises, swathed in thick mould, sprouting toadstools and mushrooms.

Ten thousand toadstools, with the right purchase, could lift a man, I suppose.

The flat roof had seven satellite uplinks covered by geodesic weather casings that resembled particularly virile bright orange toadstools.