...At the same time, the air was vibrating with snaps, the loud cracking sound that he knew from the day before...
Vicente Blasco Ibanez Charlotte Brewster Jordan 「The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse」
...As he moved, he dropped his hand to his pocket, and swift upon the cracking of Binet’s breaking cane came the crack of the pistol with which Andre-Louis replied...
Rafael Sabatini 「Scaramouche」
...On the stoep a group of men and boys were smoking, peeping in at the windows, and cracking coarse jokes...
(AKA Ralph Iron) Olive Schreiner 「The Story of an African Farm」
...The utmost endeavors of the servants, cracking their whips, screaming and beating, got only nineteen miles out of the poor beasts...
David Livingstone 「Missionary Travels and Researches in South Africa」
...The white men stopped a short distance from me and listened, I suppose, for the sound of brush cracking...
Charles Thompson 「Biography of a Slave」
...Thematerial used is mud, with the addition of horsehair or slender fibrousrootlets, which make the structure harder and prevent it from cracking...
P. L. Sclater 「Argentine Ornithology, Volume I (of 2)」
...Then suddenly his snarl turned to a mournful howl thatwas lost in frightful cracking as the ice-bridge broke away...
Forrestine C. Hooker 「Prince Jan, St. Bernard」
... The red-brown eggs also were cracking open and the youngbirds coming out of the shells...
Lenore Elizabeth Mulets 「Stories of Birds」
...I paid special attention to the ordinary toadstools and mushrooms, whichannounced their near advent by cracking the surface of the soil...
J. H. Fabre Bernard Miall 「Social Life in the Insect World」
... We, the smaller ones, in addition to the comfort of studying with our mouths full, had every now and then two other delights, which were quite as good as cracking nuts...
J. Henri Fabre Alexander Teixeira de Mattos 「The Life of the Fly」
...'Yo-o-icks—wind him! Yo-o-icks—pash him up!'repeated he, cracking his whip, and moving slowly on...
R. S. Surtees 「Mr. Sponge's Sporting Tour」
...After a short ride, we found ourselves fairly ‘in the woods,’ and in the presence of the birds, and then the cracking commenced...
Mayne Reid 「The Hunters' Feast」
...The poor man cried, 'Help me, help me, oh God! Men, help me!' then allwas still, except that his comrades heard the cracking of his bones...
R. Lee 「Anecdotes of the Habits and Instinct of Animals」
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