XI. Swiftly rose they, and the corse surrounded, Spreading out a pall into the air; And the sharp and sudden crackling sounded Mournfully to all the watchers there.

Now he heard a cheery, faint crackling from the house and a rosy glow pervaded the gloom beyond the doorway.

But her laughter, and the opinion it represented, were to him the merest crackling of thorns under a pot.

All night the British big guns had been pouring a steady stream of high explosive shells into the German positions, great detonations overlapping one another like the rapid crackling of machine-gun fire and swelling into a mighty volume of thunder that shook the earth and stunned the senses.

A faint breeze brought the tiny crackling of the wheat.

Once he was startled by a faint sigh coming from a horse looking over a hedge, and the hedgerows were full of mysterious little cracklings.

All was silent and motionless, except the fierce crackling of the fire; except a curious, intermittent, upward twitching of the corner of Ray's lips.

my unspeakable tortures,my infernal agonies have commenced!the diabolical shouts and shrieks of the fiendish spectatorsthe crackling and hissing of my tender fleshthe bursting of my over swollen tendons, muscles, and arteries, with the out-gush of the crimson vital stream from every pore,I hear,I see,I feel,and in my morbid imagination, die many deaths in one!

Then think of men, leaving the trenches at dusk, going back about a mile and a half, and bringing sundry large and heavy boxes up to the trenches, pausing now and again for a rest, and ignoring the intermittent crackling of rifle fire in the darkness, and the sharp "phit" of bullets hitting the mud all around.

" There was a loud crackling among the underbrush several hundred yards away.

By one o'clock in the morning, all was still except the melancholy crackling of the flames.

The sounds I have mentionedthe crackling of twigs, the roll of a pebble, the sound of some rustle in the dead leaves, or creeping creature on the grasswere audible when you listened, all mysterious enough when your mind is disengaged, but to me cheering now as signs of the livingness of nature, even in the death of the frost.

With the approach of midday a light wind had arisen, and now, wandering northward, it tugged at the pony's long, shaggy mane and tail, set each individual hair of the little beast vibrating in unjustified ferocity; and, drifting aimlessly on, stirred the brittle grass stalks at the man's feet with the muffled crackling of a far-distant prairie fire.

Once he was startled by a faint sigh coming from a horse looking over a hedge, and the hedgerows were full of mysterious little cracklings.

In a flame of white fire, tongued and sheeted, streaked with gulfs of black, and most terribly roaring, it rose with a prodigious crackling of walls and roof towards the sky.

By now the castle echoed with a frightful din through which arose a sinister crackling.

At another time, when we heard a slight crackling of twigs and he landed to reconnoitre, he stepped lightly and gracefully, stealing through the bushes with the least possible noise, in a way in which no white man does,as it were, finding a place for his foot each time.

" He left the room, leaving Bogle alone, to listen to the melancholy rustle of peeling wall-paper within and the steady crackling of bullets without.

The sulky crackling of half-frozen hides told him that the chief's moose-skin lodge had been struck, and even then was being rammed and jammed into portable compass.

" She sprang up, dazed, and at the same moment a terrific crackling and splintering resounded from the shaft, and the car sank out of sight.

Brutus threw another log on the fire, which gave off a brisk crackling from the bed of coals.

The still dawnno birds were singing therewas suddenly full of a tumultuous crackling; a little dull red flame ran about the base of the pyre, changed to blue upon the ground, and set out to clamber, leaf by leaf, up the stem of a giant nettle.

"It's a lady," resumed Pendleton, the brown paper crackling between his fingers, "a lady of condition, quality and beauty.

An air-tight stove, projecting its funnel through a hole in one of the panes, gave out a cheerful crackling.

Now he heard a cheery, faint crackling from the house and a rosy glow pervaded the gloom beyond the doorway.