Almost every pond and cistern in the island was dried up, scarcely a blade of grass was to be seen; and when walking over pasture land, it crackled beneath the feet as if it had been baked.
Their rifles hissed as the compressed gases were released, the explosive bullets crackled all around Gerry.
Explosive bullets crackled around them as the Scaly Ones replied with their gas-guns.
A bright fire crackled there, and her favourite chair was drawn up to it.
Her stately head was bent over the paper, which never crackled or stirred in her hand.
The fire crackled in the stove, the pendulum of the clock swung backward and forward monotonously.
The wood crackled in the green tiles, and the red glare threw a warm light over the floor, and flickered pleasantly on the walls.
Um-m," grunted Griffith, his face as emotionless as a piece of crackled wood.
Without raising his voice, Griffith gave utterance to a volley of blasphemous expletives that crackled on the air like an electric discharge.
Here Mr. Grainger's voice stopped, and I remember, in the silence that followed, the parchment crackled very loudly as he folded it precisely and laid it on the table before him.
So stiff were they with ice that they snapped and crackled under the hacking and sawing.
He noted with surprise that the fire crackled with fresh fuel and that a blackened coffee-pot steamed on the edge of the coals.
Kit spat experimentally, and the spittlecrackled in the air.
The flames crackled for a while and then the dull, heavy sound of weighty bodies falling inside sent a shudder through the waiting, watching crowd below.
The hot, thick volume roared out and crackled as timber after timber went down before the whirlwind, and rent asunder in an hour, an edifice which had withstood the blasts of the elements for seventy years.
David lighted a lamp and Thomas renewed the fire, which crackled cheerily in the big box stove, while everybody talked excitedly and Margaret set on the table a big dish of smoking fried trout, a heaping plate of bread, and poured the tea.
The seats were covered with cinders, which also crackled under foot.
I pushed all the buttons in succession; the static crackled and buzzed, the panel light flickered on and off in little cryptic flashes.
The radio stopped as if the whole orchestra had dropped dead; every light in the cabin winked swiftly out, but my hand on the switch crackled with a phosphorescent glow as the entire house current poured into my body.
The Rahn-Yaki, or crackled ware, was first made at Kioto, at the commencement of the sixteenth century.
The province of Satsuma is noted forcrackled ware.
His feet went through the light drift which had fallen during the night, and crackled frostily upon the older and harder crust.
Sometimes the growling of the pack churned and crackled only a quarter of a mile out.
Their heads deep-plunging oft Our gallies flew, and rent, and rent again Our tatter'd sail-cloth crackled in the wind.
Specimens of frosted or crackled Venetian glass are to be seen in the Slade Collection, British Museum, and fully justify Galileo’s comparison.
The ray pistol crackled harmlessly, its deadly energy spending itself in searing the metal of the ceiling.
And, wonder of wonders, the blue flamecrackled spitefully.
Oh, how the fire glowed and crackledin the keen frosty air, revealing to little Nelly Bates scenes of wondrous beauty!
By-and-bye, when the fire crackled and glowed in the grate, Joe would come into the hut and take her upon his knee, and she would lean her head against his shoulder with a heart more full of thankfulness than words of hers could utter.
And while the oatcake crackled and sparched and went black, he sniffed up the burning odour, and laughed and cried in the midst of the smoke that went swirling up the chimney.
The darkness deepened, and the voice of the sea began to moan through the back of the cave, the gorse crackled no longer, and the turf burned in a dull red glow.
When I tried to force an entrance every dead bough in the heap seemed to break with an ear-splitting crash, while all the smaller twigs crackled in chorus.
Unfortunately, I landed on some dry twigs, which crackled at every step and betrayed my presence.
Eight hundred yards beyond it, a violent rifle-fire crackledover the fields, at the crossing of the road and the highway.
A great calm now descended on the big room, while the rifles crackled outside.
The earth sounded dully under his feet, and twigs crackled as he moved.
The clock ticked on in the kitchen, the fire crackled on the hearth, far on the down a sheep-bell tinkled and was still.
He could do so for the moment without risk of offence, for Mary's eyes were fixed on the fire, which danced and crackled up the chimney with fascinating loveliness.
When we were children we always believed when it darted and crackled and laughed, as it were--just as it is now--we always thought fairies were playing at hide and seek in the flames.
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