She was a Toadeater here, too, seeking to curry favour with M. P. as with the rest, by fawning on her, in a way for which she could afterwards have hit herself.
"The Getting of Wisdom"
Henry Handel Richardson
The temptation to lay hands on the cringing little Toadeater grew too strong for me, and I picked him up by the scruff of the collar,-he was all skin and bones,-and spun him round like a corpse upon a gibbet, while he cried mercy in a voice to wake the dead.
"Richard Carvel, Complete"
Winston Churchill Last Updated: March 5, 2009