You could hear thingscracking and giving way, and it was not pleasant to know that the world overhead was slowly and silently sinking down upon you.
Ritchie asked, crackingopen a bottle and taking a long-deserved drink.
Sigger, his voice cracking in a most un-John Wayne like fashion.
And then he was on his knee in the entrance, begging forgiveness, and saying his "cursed, cracking voice made a madman of him!
For he could also see many men waiting for him with clubs, and he could hear the cracking of whips, and feel the sting of their lashes.
The smell of blood and of warm flesh tickled his nostrils, and his sharp ears could catch the cracking of bones.
There was a cracking of bone and a crunching of flesh, and the circle of waiting wolves grew tense and alert.
I was thus saved from cracking my poor little skull.
I had also the pleasure of showing him my experiment of cracking a glass globe filled with water and hermetically sealed.
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There was a rending, cracking sound, as Nat responded, and the car leaped forward like a live thing.
They lingered for an hour at the table, talking and cracking nuts, and during that time the Rover boys became thoroughly acquainted with the Barrow family.
Then they piled home, once more as hungry as wolves, to a hot supper, and an evening of nut-cracking around the fire.
When Francois left him he was gesticulating, and, as he walked up and down the deserted corridor, was cracking his knuckles or gnawing his nails.
In a minute there was an awful cracking like the breaking of a tree, only different, and we all ran here, there, everywhere.
Germination is complicated with the bursting forth of a meteor and with the peck of a swallow cracking its egg, and it places on one level the birth of an earthworm and the advent of Socrates.
A minute had not elapsed, when the sound of the cracking of a whip was heard, which rapidly retreated and died away.
One moment he was in maudlin tears and the next he was cracking some miserable joke about the disaster.
The dinner to-day was cooked by "Shad" Jones, a colored man known to every traveling man who has ever stopped at Johnstown for his ability to hold four eggs in his mouth and swallow a drink of water without cracking a shell.
At sunrise we dismounted a minute, for coffee, at a small village, with an unpronouncable jaw-cracking Indian name.
Cracking my whip a little savagely, I crossed the verdant slope of a hill, and dismounted at the gate of a walled garden, having, a dilapidated and venerable habitation within.
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From somewhere outside the house, and below, I heard the cough again, followed by a sharp cracking sound like the lashing of a whip.
What do you make of the sound like the cracking of a whip?
From out over Sedgemoor it came, cracking and rolling and booming toward us, swelling in volume to a stupendous climax, that awful laughter of Jove the destroyer of Cragmire Tower.
On the stoep a group of men and boys were smoking, peeping in at the windows, and cracking coarse jokes.
Renti, with three or four bounds, landed in the middle of his herd, and cracking his whip and yodeling at the top of his voice, he ran on toward the Lindenhof stables.
Then, setting up a terrible howl and roar, as though he were himself a wild beast, he charged down upon the steer, at the same time cracking his whip as hard as he could.
I found him cracking the ice on the pond to let the swans in for a cold bath.
I have seen him, when his mouth was cracking with the thirst, pour the last drop from his canteen down the throat of a dying Boche, or share the last bread in his baluchon with a wounded prisoner.
We had a merry time at supper, Moses making clever jokes, without cracking a smile himself; and the baby romping in his high chair, eating what wasn't good for him.
