She saw his face plainly now as his crackling fire burned higher.

At that moment there was a strange crackling sound, and the mirror became illuminated with a purple glow.

When the Northern Lights, as the same writer informs us, vary their position in the air, they make a rustling and a crackling noise.

Even the green verdure begins to roll back where the crackling flames play into the more compact wall of incombustible timber.

Sitting by the crackling twigs which drove away the cool airs of the autumn night with their inspiring warmth, the young man, whose early fortunes we have thus far endeavored to narrate, leaned his head upon his hand, and mused and dreamed.

'Fire the pile!' cried Tisquantum; and the flames burst up from the dry crackling wood, and threw a broad sheet of light on the dark stream below.

For David Bittacy behind his crackling paper had uttered a sharp exclamation of surprise.

And these, with the crackling blaze upon the hearth, sent queer shadows quivering up the smoky walls.

And now her vase a modest Naiad fills With liquid crystal from her pebbly rills; Piles the dry cedar round her silver urn, 480 (Bright climbs the blaze, the crackling faggots burn), Culls the green herb of China's envy'd bowers, In gaudy cups the steamy treasure pours; And, sweetly-smiling, on her bended knee Presents the fragrant quintessence of Tea.

I threw off an overcoat, took an armchair by the crackling logs, and awaited patiently the arrival of my hosts.

In the corner of the room behind stood the crescentic, white plaster stove, with its dull wooden kettle-lids and its crackling straw.

We immediately commenced the charge, but the firing of the gun and the noise of our rush through the crackling timber alarmed the Indians, who at once sprang to their horses and were away from us before we reached their late camp.

And she laughed, with a strange crackling laugh that it was a pain to hear.

The leaping flames spread and shot forth licking tongues and, in a few minutes, the pile was a roaring crackling furnace.

Tough fibers of the stiff-ranked pines parted with a crackling groan, as though unable to bear silently the reiterant stabbing of the frost needles.

It was strange to hear the crackling kind of noise that they made, for both sides were using the rifle.

So they walked over the crackling leaves in the garden, between the lines of box breathing its fragrance of eternity;for this is one of the odors which carry us out of time into the abysses of the unbeginning past; if we ever lived on another ball of stone than this, it must be that there was box growing on it.

Close by he started his fire, knowing from experience oft repeated how a cheery blaze in the forest may dispel shadows within even as it makes the sombrest of shadows dance gaily under the trees; to one side he laid many resinous faggots, planning on their crackling light later on when the dark came.

Sonia Turgeinov again watched him; her interest was now of that vague kind she had sometimes experienced when the manager appeared on a darkened stage, with a fresh crackling manuscript.

" An hour later a crackling message was hurled into the empty Christmas sky, a message that pulsed through the voids, was relayed over ice and brine and drifted forests to a lonely, brooding man three thousand miles away.

" The feel of that crackling note in my hand at once restored my courage.

All at once I heerd a crackling o' twigs like th' night afore, an' then someone stole acrost th' road carrying a rope.

Lamb relates how a Chinese boy, Bo-bo, having accidentally set his house an fire and roasted a litter of pigs, happened to acquire a liking for roast pig when he sucked his fingers to cool them after touching a crackling pig.

After Eric had run and leapt and waded in the crackling pools of leaves for a long time, he grew hungry.

I took one of the latter, put its flat end between the boardsthe old coffin fell apart with a dull crackling protest.