I could croak with no warning, and the only tragedy anyone would experience would be showing up on the last day of my estate sale simply to discover that all remaining items had copious amounts of dog hair on them.
If it is your duty to croak like the toad, then go ahead! And with all your might! Make them hear you!
He turns toward me. I want to touch him, but I’m afraid of his bareness; afraid that he will make me bare too. ‘Is this scaring you, Tris?’ ‘No,’ I croak. I clear my throat. ‘Not really. I’m only…afraid of what I want. ’ ‘What do you want?’ Then his face tightens. ‘Me?’ Slowly I nod.
If you're successful, don't crow. If you're defeated, don't croak.
Language,-human language,-after all is but little better than the croak and cackle of fowls, and other utterances of brute nature,-sometimes not so adequate.
As they croak, I see myself in the pistol smoke.