When out of their midst Prince ran to the plate a piercing, ear-splitting sound pealed up from the stands.
He held to it, almost splitting his throat, while the sprinter twinkled round third base and came home like a thunderbolt.
Inside the farmhouse there was the battalion mess, at one long table and one short, because it was felt better for all the officers to be together instead of splittingup into company messes.
I have an idea, however, that they resulted from the splitting off of large fragments of ice.
We managed to turn it over the edge; when it fell down smash upon the cake below, splitting it in two.
Our guide showed us how we could easily obtain the young shoots, by splitting the leaves and leafstalks; and we enjoyed a fine meal of the cabbage.
He employed a number of hands in building the boat and splitting out the staves, and engaged himself in these labors "till the bears got fat.
Rough boards were made for the roof by splitting straight-grained logs about four feet long.
That will do your head good--for you have a splitting headache, haven't you?
She was always engaged to ride or dance or row on the river with the other men--and always splitting her dances, and forgetting her promises, and wearing the rings and pins of her adorers.
There was a moan and rush nearer still, a shrill human shriek, a splitting crash, and a small native house spouted up a cloud of dust and splinters and fragments of sun-dried brick.
Ever and anon the sharp splitting crash of a bursting shell, some nearer, some farther away, gave the nervous a start.
His words were interrupted by the weird moan of a shell, followed by an ear-splitting crack.
In the splitting of a flagstone, the long-buried skeleton of the fish came to light.
It has the peculiarity of splitting into thin, leaf-like, flexible sheets, so it is easy to find out which particles in a piece of granite are mica.
The throat of each musician was puffed out into a bag about the size and shape of a small hen's egg; and all were singing for dear life, and making a din that was almost ear-splitting at close range.
The varnish, supple and full of elasticity, instead of cracking and splitting into fissures, simply swells up with the paint.
Prepare a handle as though you were to make a sword pencil, splitting it at the base, etc.
Behind a hut perched on a steep hillside, just opposite to the rest-house, two boys were splitting wood with a certain languid industry; further down the road a group of dogs were leisurely working themselves up to quarrelling pitch.
Already the shore gang were splitting out the keel blocks.
There was a surging, and then a splitting of the crowd, and Robinson was slung into the ring.
Go right up and entertain her with some side-splitting stories.
But what I want you to see is, you're splitting up the class.
I would watch them lifting their elbows at my expense, or splitting their side at my fun--I can be funny when I like, you bet!
He bustled out of the room to the veranda, and let out an ear-splitting whistle for their Pedro.
There are some things that will preserve a man from splitting upon this rock.
The chasm of light splitting the heavens closed in, leaving the night wholly black.
Darkness fell, and the thunder cracked and boomed as though the very moor were splitting about us.
Then, splitting the oblong of greater blackness which marked the casement, quivered dazzlingly another flash of lightning in which I saw the bed again, with that impression of Smith curled up in it.
His huge hand caught the hypnotic stone and swept it into crashing, ear-splitting cacophony against the cold steel bulkhead.
In the continuous, head-splitting noises of three thousand shells per minute, bursting on an eight-mile segment, he looked more like a war god than an agent of mercy.
It seemed incredible that in all the head-splitting noises so near to them there should not be wounded men for the gathering!
The cleavage is smoother and more regular than the splitting of schist along its grain.
A rock that by subjection to pressure within the earth has acquired the property of splitting smoothly into thin plates.
Transcriber Note All illustrations splitting paragraphs were moved before or after the paragraph.
The splitting off of sheets of rock of various sizes and shapes due to changes of temperature.
The reason of the influence of pressure is here evidently that the splitting up of carbonic anhydride into carbonic oxide and oxygen is accompanied by an increase in volume (as in the case of the dissociation of nitric peroxide.
In an anhydrous form the gas or liquid easily explodes, splitting up into chlorine and oxygen.
As the diamond possesses a very marked cleavage, the first operation consists in splitting it, and then roughly and finely polishing it with diamond powder.
What d'ye say to splitting a bottle of Beaune, and paying for it from the common purse?
Though the blue clay in the Vale of Evesham is so tenacious, it works beautifully after a few sharp frosts, splitting up into laminations that form a splendidly mouldy seed bed, so that frost has been eloquently called "God's plough.
The aspect of the straight road enlarged with their advance, the two banks dividing like a splitting stick; one rushing past at each shoulder.
The swift stream raced and gyrated under them, tossing, distorting, and splittingthe moon's reflected face.
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