As the mast went by the board and the hull crunched to splinters under my feet, the stately Susquehanna, flying the blue-starred broad pennant of Commodore Perry, swung around and fired a thunderous broadside into our shattered wreck.
Bones crunchedunder the iron-shod sandals of my bearers.
Moves away, then stops] How the little bones crunched under me.
How it began to whimper, and how the little bones crunched .
He crunched and swallowed all right, Doctor," said Carnes.
Aumonier, fluttering the purple lappets at the throat of Monseigneur, and tugging as with invisible hands at the Sister's thin black veil, approaching footsteps crunched over the sloppy gravel of the cloister walk.
Hitting the North Sea with so shattering a slap that the Bird's landing-carriage crumpled and buckled, and the frail spars of her wings crunched like the bones of a small bird in the jaws of a hungry cat.
The paper-pad, crunched to a mere wad, dropped from the hand that unconsciously released it.
There the tempest crashed and crunched in the tops of the trees, seeming to vent all its fury on them.
His feet crunched through the frozen crust till he sank to his knees, and then it needed all his powers to step forwards once more.
The continual grinding, groaning, and creaking, as the pieces of ice crunched together, kept up all night long.
Slowly the raft drifted nearer and nearer, until the side of it crunched against the floe.
He crunched the handkerchief into a ball and flung it on the ground.
Now, though the bee's journey was ended and its flesh was to be crunched and devoured by the wasp, the honey was the first object of the pirate's solicitude.
It crunched the missile that had attacked it, eating the palatable contents of the horny armor, confusing the blow with the object that had delivered it, and evidently satisfied that an enemy had been conquered and was being devoured.
William crunched in silence for a minute, then, "Good resolution?
As he crunched Mixed Dew Drops he indulged in a day dream in which he rescued the little girl in the white fur coat from robbers and pirates and a burning house.
That the Count glared at me savagely and crunched his jaws with maniacal energy.
They struck the opposite bank, and the bar crunched on its frozen hinges.
The pebbles crunched under the grinding keel, and its nose ploughed gaily into the sparkling ripples.
The station-master put on his red cap, the barmaid began to wipe with a duster the glass case protecting the cheese and other viands, and a couple of postmen crunched over the gravel, wheeling trucks containing letter-bags and parcels.
As the boat crunched on the Uhlenfelde strand, panic seized him again, and he entered the courtyard breathing in short gasps like an asthmatic.
The rope, covered with icicles, shone like metal, and its frozen crust crunched against the wheels of the pulley.
The days when they had sat in corners together and giggled and tittered while they crunched peppermint bull's-eyes out of a bag that lay across their laps, and now and then flipped each other behind the ear, seemed gone for ever.
She broke it into three pieces and crunched the pieces in her mouth, and blew the fragments away.
Gravel crunched under our feet down the road that led out of moonlight into the darkness of the glen--to San Millán de las brujas.
The road was frosty and crunched silkily underfoot.
Outside, the flakes had ceased and the sinister-looking side street lay in a white hush, a single line of scraggly footsteps crunched into the snow of the sidewalk.
The sand crunched under Iakov's steps and they had to suspend their conversation.
The sound of the water when the oars struck it resounded in the still air, and the sand crunched under the watchman's bare feet as he stamped about in his impatience.
He clenched his teeth stoically, shut his eyes, folded his long, hairy arms about his head, and rolled himself into a ball, confidently expecting in the next moment to feel the life crunched out of him.
As he wheeled to strike her down, she slipped aside with a mocking laugh, and threw one of the brands between his jaws, where he crunched upon it savagely before he felt the torment of it and spat it out.
Before the party recovered from their surprise at this new appearance on the scene, the brute reared up and seized François by the leg, which he crunched and shattered.
Roland crunched along the little footpath leading through the wood to the highway, and then walked rapidly over the hard, frozen road--a very solitary road at that hour of the night.
A heavy stepcrunched the gravel and I heard my name pronounced in a deep inquiring rumble--the voice of Professor Keredec, no less.
Some tools were strewn in a semi- circular trail in the dust; a pair of smashed goggles crunched beneath my foot as I sprang out of Ward's car, and a big brass lamp had fallen in the middle of the road, crumpled like waste paper.
Like a flash she catapulted through the air; there was the gleam of white fangs and when the jaws crunched together they closed upon the neck of the unfortunate deer, crushing the vertebra.
Warruk turned with a snarl andcrunched the shaft between his teeth.
On a sunny day in January, a traveling coachcrunched up the drive to Castle Brand, and produced a visitor for Miss Walsingham.
Hasty feet crunched on the sleet-covered balcony, and the scratching sound of a man swinging himself down by some rattling chain-ladder followed.
The footsteps came to a momentary pause, then crunched on again quicker than before.
Footsteps cruncheddown the path, then came silence, and the falling of a shadow across the doorway.
With many words and much crooning she cajoled him into a pretense of eating, but his little red eyes sought her face constantly as he crunched a bone or nosed out the more appetizing morsels from the pan.
He grabbed the writhing boy, now frantically trying to scrabble up the stairs, in a clutch that almost crunched the frail shoulder bones.
The Malay swung aside; the holystone crunched into the sack of eggs and slid to earth.
