46 Words to use with cracks

Major Brown declared it was a crack shot, because it broke the plate.

" I heard of the charges of the Italian Cavalry, of the Novara Lancers and the Genoa Dragoons, crack regiments, full of the best horsemen in Italy, who had been waiting, waiting, all the war through, for their chance to come.

Boxes and sacks were piled near the wharf, and from over behind the hills, with startling nearness, came the nervous Crack... crack... crack-crack-crack!

And didn't I hear one of the sailors say that she was a crack ship, a number one?

I grasped the forward end of our weapon, Ajax, being the heavier, took the other, and we charged that door with such hearty goodwill that at the first assault it yielded, lock and hinges being torn from the woodwork, and the door itself falling flat with a crash like the crack o' doom.

It's the crack artillery regiment in the French service.

He was just thirty-four; an excellent rider, a dead shot, a very fair sailor, and captain of a crack militia company.

The man jumped down and, followed by the maid, ran back, but before he reached the limousine was obliged to jump aside to escape the grey car which, tooled by a crack racing hand, took the corner on two wheels, then straightened out and tore past in a smother of dust, with its muffler cut out and the exhaust bellowing like a machine-gun.

" It is lucky for Mr. BONNER'S crack horses, then, that they are not stabled in Paris just now, since they are all considered first-rate for Fast days.

Lour.) contains twenty-four irregular egg-shaped seeds of the size of an inch which, however, are not so poisonous as the Ignatius beans, which taste like crack-nuts.

Often, too, cracks will appear in the horn of the quarters, and a troublesome and incurable form of sand-crack results.

Now we have a mount for the party, and I needn't take poor Warick's crack stallion.

He forgot all about the big trout in the pool, and stood with his fly drifting aimlessly in the water, watching with something like breathless interest this, the most daring piece of horsemanship he had ever witnessed; and he had ridden side by side with the best steeplechaser of the day, and had watched a crack Hungarian cavalry corps at its manoeuvres; which last is about the top notch of the horse-riding business.

The mounted division of the Antwerp Garde civique wore a green and scarlet uniform which resembled as closely as possible that of the Guides, the crack cavalry corps of the Belgian army.

He was a crack cyclist himself, and it was a sport of which he was passionately fond.

The crack Belgian cavalry divisions had been gathered here just behind the firing-lines in readiness for a sortie; the Lancers in their cherry and green and the Guides in their blue and gold making a blaze of color.

A long-standing correspondent for an English-language newspaper, who has been mentioned earlier in this chapter, runs two such gaddas located opposite the Margao police station, where matka bets are accepted, even amidst the worst of police crack-downs on gambling outlets.

" "Tom, you're a crack fireman," said Dick with a smile.

He'll make a crack flier.

The clamp is then adjusted, and pressed home tight by means of the sand-crack forceps (Fig. 87).

There he settled himself, grumbling, yet faithful; and filled up the time with sleepy maledictions against some old admiral, who hador had nottaken a spite to him in the West Indies thirty years before, else he would have been a post captain by now, comfortably in bed on board a crack frigate, instead of sitting all night out on a rock, like an old cormorant, etc. etc.

" West drew a golf ball from his pocket and, throwing it on the turf, gave it a half-shot off toward the river, following leisurely after it and pondering on the possibility of making a crack golfer out of a country lad in a straw hat.

PIUS was up on his feet, talking Latin like a crack student of the Propaganda.

They was the crack team of Alaska.

Happen such crack-jaw words come easy to a scholar like your ladyship.' 'Does the doctor give no hope?' 'Well, no, my lady.

46 Words to use with  cracks