pithed

The man twitched once, much like a pithed frog, and then was still.

He'd leaped like a pithed frog when her first pellet blew a hole above his right eye.

Blaney spasmed on the couch like a pithed frog.

The neck of the Posleen squirted yellow blood as it began to fall, dead as a pithed frog.

Which dropped like a pithed frog just as Two-Gun's pistols clicked back empty.

Gary Larson pitched pithed frogs in a Far Side cartoon.

He knelt silently and waited in a stunned, hyper-relaxed state, like a pithed frog on the dissection table.

Admiral Lasowksi thrashed like a pithed frog.

Even a high-school biology student can keep a pithed frog's heart beating for a substantial "postmortem" period through the use of stimulant drugs.

The tower roof held only live Chosen and dead Imperials; mostly dead, one with a chunk of skull missing was still sprattluig like a pithed frog.

My nephews are sprawled like pithed frogs before the HDTV, teaching themselves physics by lobbing antimatter bombs onto an offending civilization from high orbit.