The farmer cracked his whip, and whenever the road grew worse he or his man got down and led the horses.

Jack Vance tried to crack a joke, but it was a miserable failure.

I remember, too, how we gathered, in those same old autumnal days, hickory-nuts and butter-nuts by the bushel; and how pleasant it was in the long cold winter evenings, to sit around the great old kitchen fire-place, cracking the nuts we had gathered when the green, the yellow, the crimson, the brown, the grey, and the pale leaves were on the trees.

They spent many an evening together, and probably cracked many a bottle.

The Boy jumped up on his stool and cracked his head against the roof; but he only ducked, rubbed his wild, long hair till it stood out wilder than ever, and went on: "Nicholas's forefathers were kings before Caesar; they were here before the Pyramids" The Colonel came round and hauled the Boy down.

Diggory, with an engaging smile, hopped on one side, and the Philistine flung himself against the post, and bumped his head with a violence which might have cracked any ordinary skull.

One cracked the shell and found icicles beneath, and miserably held fragments of egg in one's mouth until they thawed!

All my infancy and youth passed away, and I never once perceived the hidden worth of these lines till I had tumbled down a hill myself, cracked my crown, and was laid up with it a week or more.

"Ididn't mean to break the window, Dicky," he said, twisting and cracking his fingers in rising agitation.

Fresh Fruit Frumenty Blueberry Toast Breakfast Rolls Corn Puffs Toasted Wafers Baked Apples Stewed Fruit DINNER Combination Soup Mashed Potatoes Stewed Split Peas Cabbage Salad Cracked Wheat with Raisins Toasted Rolls Currant Puffs Graham Bread

All about them they heard the sharp reports of cracking ice.

Now, I have a right round piece of a mind to crack thy knave's pate for thee!"

In his heart, he knew that a thorough digest of the Wills and Orders of the Orphans' Court of any county must always rank as a useful and creditable performance; but, from without, the sounds and odors of Spring were calling to him, luring him, wringing his very heart, bidding him come forth into the open and crack a jest or two before he died, and stare at the girls a little before the match had flickered out.

These people never smile before they go in the ring, but just act as though too much depended on them to crack a smile.

They were so proud that it made them feel sick with shame to think of riding along the highroad with a strolling friar, in robes all too short for him, running beside them, but yet they could not make Little John stay against his will, for they knew he could crack the bones of both of them in a twinkling were he so minded.

They will perchance crack their dry joints at one another and call it a spiritual communication.

Payne, the last man, just succeeded in cracking his duck's-egg, and the innings closed for 104.

One fellow went up to R., who was just on the point of knocking him down, when, seeing the Treasurer of the Bey cracking his sides with laughter, he allowed the brute to go off under such high patronage.

"The birds who crack seeds in their stout beaks, eat the kernels, and so destroy millions of harmful weed-seeds.

She pulled the rings from her finger and flung them against the window, cracking the glass across.

The Visiting Brigadier cracked a walnut and glanced towards the General.

Blow, wind, and crack your cheeks!

One of the young men whom we had met rang a bell, and a man on the inside cracked the door a couple of inches; then opened it and let us in.

The celebrated Mr. Prattle, for whom a thousand fair ones cracked their fans and tore their caps, was one of the first to enlist himself among her adorers.

They came nearer, and soon I heard rolling rocks and cracking brush, which sounds I believed were made by a bear.