There is nothing to me in being a member of a crack regiment, but it seems that this one will see action first of all American units.
The boys backed up against a tree, expecting momentarily to hear the whip-like crack of the gun.
At the moment there was a startling diversion--the whip-like crack of rifles from the opposite edge of the bowl, at the very point where the aviators had stood when first attracted by the shining point on the captain's tunic.
While the boys had faith only in the heavier-than-air machines, they conceded that the risk taken by the Zeppelin crews entitled the latter to brush elbows with the crack flyers of the other kind of bird craft.
Crack went a bone once more, as the noise of the piece died out, showing that the lion had ceased to pay attention to the report.
These took not the slightest notice of whip-crack or shout, but plodded slowly along, tossing their heads now and then, and bringing their horns in contact with a loud rap.
Tincombe Lane is all up-hill, Or down hill, as you take it; You tumble up and crack your crown, Or tumble down and break it.
That was a volume of ornate discourses by a crack ladies' preacher.
I don't need practice and I'd like to preserve the beautiful illusion that maybe I could crack your shield if I wanted to.
Again and again the wave of golop built up high enough tocrack and to shatter that feeble wall; again and again golop and water met in ultimately furious, if insensate, battle.
You haven't anything that could even begin tocrack an Operator's Shield.
He did not crack the screen or break it down by force; he neutralized and counter-phased, painlessly and almost imperceptibly, its every component and layer.
And for your information, Doctor Bellamy, one more crack like that and I take you over my knee and blister your fanny.
Her companion had been trying to crack her shield.
We had not entered the bush more than the distance of four or five throws of an assagy, when I heard the slight crack of a stick in front of us.
He found the inner bolt melted and the lock inoperative; and, placing his forearms on either side of the middle crack of the door, he stood bracing it.
For crack merchant ships and dingy space trading tramps alike, she was haven; drink and drugs, women and diversions unspeakable lured to her space ports the cream and scum, adventures and riffraff of half a dozen worlds.
Then trampling these images under their feet, They sent Crack a petition, beginning "Great Caesar!
Great Galen of souls, with what vigor he crams Down Erin's idolatrous throats, till they crack again, Bolus on bolus, good man!
In 1860 there was a noteworthy series arranged between the Excelsiors and Atlantics, the former being determined to win from the latter, which, though not holding any official championship, was regarded as the crack team of that time.
Chicago had a crack team called the Excelsiors, which went to Rockford, Illinois, in 1864, and won glory by defeating the Forest Citys of that place.
The Trimountains, the crackclub of the day, was organized in Boston in 1858.
He had just resolved to call out and demand her attention, when the crack of a lash made him turn and his lip began to tingle.
No crack of land ordnance could inspire the fear that resounding bump did in the breasts of the apprehensive girls.
Without a word Shagarach seized one of these and wedged it into the crack between two of the boards.
The bullet missed its mark and the crack of the powder roused the convicts from their stupor.
The crack of the inspector's revolver was heard once, but the fugitive had turned like lightning and hurled his adze.
There were shouts and the crack of revolvers, and the thud of pistol butts.
He was a crack baseball player and one of the chief factors of the high school football eleven.
He had been made to understand that something pleasant was being done for him, but it is doubtful if he could have asked for any greater happiness than just to sit there with somebody to talk to and crack his jokes with.
Fleda's ear was too near the crackof the door not to have the benefit of more of their conversation than she cared for.
As for the girl, what did it matter to him if she let a dozen Yale men tell her jokes and crack her lobster claws for her?
And her tone was, "You rascal; the money for my eggs," often giving him a crack on the crown.
Their plan seemed to be to crack on due south till we'd got high enough, and then to steer west, and get into the Pacific best way we could.
Up he jumps, wild as wild; and the first thing he catches sight of is Harry laughing fit to crack his sides, when Chunder rushes at him like a mad bull.
I believe I see a crack on ahead, and that's why I stopped.
Then there was a rush, a crackas something came into violent contact with his head, the world went round, and then--darkness.
Pardon, dearest Araminta, If I go not on my knees, For my joints are out of order, When I bend they crack and wheeze.
They have a large tooth at each side of the upper jaw, which bites against the keen edge of a tooth like it on the lower jaw, thus forming a pair of shears sharp enough to cut paper and strong enough to crack the thigh-bone of an ox.
He had joined at age seventeen to get a crack at electronics, and--true to its word--the Navy came through.
Our crack counterterrorist assault force needs two days just to get into position to do what they're trained for?
Since Reggie was a crack shot, the best, he would be the standoff sniper, maintaining surveillance on the subject area from a fixed position, monitoring radio frequencies, and providing intelligence on hostile movements.
Again the hard crack of the German's automatic followed.
Immediately a blinding white flare erupted from the tracks, followed by the loud crack of an explosion.
He had ignored the crack and swirled the ice in his glass, then pulled out a piece to chew.
Illustration: Elevation] Bees not unfrequently take advantage of a hole or crack in the floor of their domicile to commence building combs underneath it, a position possessing some advantages.
The glass should be thick, and secured by putty; but it must not fit too tightly, or it is apt to crack from the swelling of the wood.
Found a fip in a crack in the hearth 'fore I was three year old.
If they should marry other half-breeds, the line of dusky Perritauts might stretch out the memory of a savage maternity to the crack of doom.
I heard a shout behind me--the sharp crackof a pistol, and a bullet sang over my head; and then I knew they were after me, for I could hear the patter of their feet upon the hard road.
I had occasion to observe this particularly in a visit which we paid to a quarry, whence several men were cutting stone for the new edifice; who all paused from their labor to have a pleasant "crack wi' the laird.
Suddenly the sharp crack of their friend's rifle rang out in the solemn stillness, the report echoing again and again through the gorge, with an effect that was startling even to such experienced men.
The best that we'll do is to promise him a chance for a crack after you and me miss.
While those bills were in the dark at the bottom of that crack they must have sprouted.
He muttered one or two more disjointed exclamations and then ceased to speak altogether, staring abstractedly at a crack in the floor.
