Then, with a crackling roar that came plainly to my ears, the barn behind the house was buried in flame, seeming almost to blow up in one huge puff of bluish-white smoke.
Nay, it is the winds that wail, And the patter on the pane Of the driving sleet and hail" Replied the farmer as he piled The crackling hemlock on the coals, And lit his corn-cob pipe and smiled The smile of sweet contented souls.
Then brazen bugles rang the clarion call; Arose as one twice twenty thousand men, And all our hillsides blazed with crackling fire.
He walked with long strides along thecrackling road, his muscles aching for memory of it.
The aimless snapping and crackling of the bushes changed to a sustained crashing as the dragon came like a hurricane straight toward the spot from which the scent of his enemies was wafted.
The ominous crackling still sounded behind them, as the dragon blundered in his erratic course.
The pliant cords made no great sound as they encountered the quivering body of the captive; only a sharp crackling snap, but each cord left a red streak across Yasala's dark flesh.
There was a sharp crackling sound and the ray of fire flashed from her bosom and struck the black altar, with a snapping of blue sparks.
Yashka, round as a top, often spun about the place, drowning the blows of the hammer and the crackling of the coals in the furnace with his piercing shouts.
They shouted and roared, their voices blending with the crackling and roaring of the fire.
Meanwhile the flames burst forth anew, and amid the crackling of the burning timbers and the dense smoke of the lighted thatch, the fight went on.
I was often on the ice listening to the grinding and watching how it went on, but it did not go beyond crackling and creaking beneath our feet and in the ridge at our side.
About 8 o'clock I awoke, and heard the crunching and crackling of the ice, as if ice-pressure were setting in.
The ice kept quiet during the night, but all day, with some intervals, it has been crackling and settling, and this evening there have been several fits of pressure from 9 o'clock onward.
We did not take into consideration that the snow was not so cold and crackling now as it had been earlier in the winter.
As we were sitting at supper we again heard the same crunching and crackling noise in the ice as usual, coming nearer and nearer, and finally we heard a crash proceeding from right underneath where we sat.
At about half-past five I heard at intervals the crackling and crunching of the pack-ice which was surging in the lane ahead.
While I sit here and write I hear the crunching and crackling beginning again outside, so that there must still be a steady pressure on the ice.
He gazed pensively at the logs crackling on the hearth and his features were as inscrutably blank as those of the Sphinx.
He held the thing high above his head, and ripped out his words with a crackling force.
The glow from a match-end became first a slender filament of flame which widened to a greedy blanket as it lapped at the oil and spread crackling up the woodwork of the door's frame.
I then collected fallen branches and brushwood round an old stone piled them up to a great height, and the fire quickly darted up crackling and roaring.
I noticed the quarter very carefully; the river was only forty yards across, and the direction was shown me still more plainly by the crackling of brushwood.
An inhuman yell of joy from the savages greeted the first flash of the flames, which soon ascended with a crackling sound.
We sat for a long time, as the moon shone now and then; but at length we grew tired of waiting, and I got up to go home, but at the same moment fancied I could hear the crackling of drift wood.
A crackling fire of brushwood soon illumined the surrounding scenery, as we found plenty of wood to keep it up.
There was not a breath of air, and only the crackling of our fire interrupted the silence, and lit up the great masses of rock around us.
When these fresh and crackling drawings were opened before us they resembled nothing so much as a veritable paradise.
By the time the dry wood was crackling and sparkling out its cheery welcome, my patient arrived, and was laid down, blankets and all, on the rude little bedstead, before the blaze.
A crackling wood fire was roaring up the chimney from the large stove in the kitchen.
Dawn was breaking as they awoke--simultaneously to a slight crackling sound outside.
Before anybody could interpose, Brayle had cantered lightly into the field and the enemy's works were in crackling conflagration.
They had left behind them the smell of burning turf, of crackling sticks, of fish, and of the cowhouse, and were come into the atmosphere of flowering gorse and damp scraa soil and brine.
His motionless eyes were on the crackling fire, and he stood in the light that flashed from it with a face like stone.
The kitchen of "The Manx Fairy" was now savoury with the odour of herrings roasting in their own brine, and musical with the crackling and frizzling of the oil as it dropped into the fire.
The lads croodled down by the crackling blaze, and tried to forget that they had forgotten tea-time.
The glow was maybe a hundred yards distant, a little spark of fire I could have put in my cap, and, from its crackling and smoke, composed of dry seaweed and half-green branches from the burnside thickets.
I had silent followers, who betrayed themselves now and then by the crackling of a branch, and eyes were always looking at me which I could not see.
It might be the blazing and crackling of thorns, but it was not the fire.
The stalls were ablaze with jewellery and crackling with starched shirt-fronts; and expensive scents pervaded the air, putting up a stiff battle with the plebeian peppermint that emanated from the pit.
A cloud passed over the sun: all the scene became sombre, and hushed with a strange brooding stillness, broken only by the noise of twigs crackling under my feet, and distant growls of thunder.
As the sled glided homewards over the crackling snow, he was obliged to confess the existence of a new and powerful excitement.
Then came small splits, and bigger splits, and in a moment he had a crackling fire.
And when the wood was cracklingmerrily he made a comfortable seat of boughs upon which to sit while he cooked and ate the one sea pigeon which he allowed himself.
Ellen sat a while listening to the soothing chirrup of the cricket and the pleasant crackling of the flames.
For a while the room was quiet, the silence broken only by the howling of the storm and the crackling of the burning log in the stove.
And yet where could more real comfort be found than in such an old house, especially when a November storm is howling without, and here indoors great fir logs are crackling in the gay-tiled stove?
There'll be some furious chaps out here, when that fire gets to cracklingand smoking.
Harvey and the crew had already arisen, and Tom and Bob could hear the crackling of a fire outside, where they were preparing breakfast.
Their poisonous coils about her limbs are cast, She shakes them off in pure and holy ire, As quietly as Paul, in ages past, Shook off the serpent in the crackling fire.
Then with pipes and mugs in hand the circle about the crackling logs was formed anew--this time twice its regular size to give Chief plenty of room--and the story-telling part of the evening began.
As they left the buvette they heard again the crunching crackling noise as the man bit another piece off the bottle.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "crackling" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
