"Still not quite the right color," the young man croaked as he watched the flame turning to a richer orange.

The little man croaked a few more words and pointed up the street in the direction of the harbor.

Then into the silence the man croaked quietly, "My wife."

The dead man croaked at me as a bubble of gas broke deep in his esophagus.

"You better get out of here," the near breathless young man croaked.

So everything's about like it was after the old man croaked.

Mouse hasn't stepped inside a hospital since his old man croaked in one.

"All right," the old man croaked, inching his way painfully towards him.

"Much obliged, son," a man with four days of beard croaked.

"Papa will send away the bad mens, now you go on playing house," the old man croaked.