708 examples of crackled in sentences

On the hearth, in front of a back-brand to give substance, blazed a fire of thorns, that crackled "like the laughter of the fool.

The fire crackled as it began to eat into the fresh fuel that had been tossed to the red embers upon the incoming of the party.

Onistah built a fire of poplar, which presently crackled like a battle front and shot red-hot coals at them in an irregular fusillade.

These held the hot stuff from the jug, however, as well as golden goblets would have done; and Bob served it out with beaming looks, while the chestnuts on the fire sputtered and crackled noisily.

The light wood-fire on the hearth crackled and burned to ashes, but it had done its office in tempering the chill of the autumn evening, and through the half-open door stole the 'sweet decaying smell' of the fallen leaves, while the hush of an Indian-summer night seemed to calm our very hearts with its stillness.

The question now was, which would succeed in driving his adversary from these defences, almost within a few yards of each other, and from behind which crackled the musketry.

It crackled under his feet.

The elephant turned tail, and fled madly away, crashing through the matted brake that crackled and tore under his tread.

He saw trees thrown down and bronze lamp-posts broken; glass crackled under his feet as he passed near the ruined kiosques.

As he strode along he stepped upon dry twigs that crackled noisily.

" A voice crackled through the speaker, "O.K., just a minute.

They squirmed and wriggled, contorted and crackled like giant thousand-legs, and almost excited in me a repulsion.

Upon this, to the consternation even of Meetuck himself, they now passed, and in a moment, ere they were aware, they were passing over a smooth, black surface that undulated beneath them like the waves of the sea, and crackled fearfully.

Now, as Manuel clapped Niafer on the shoulder, the forest beside the roadway was agitated, and the underbrush crackled, and the tall beech-trees crashed and snapped and tumbled helter-skelter.

The match he lit crackled explosively, and he started at the unexpected sound as one whose nerves were on edge.

A wood fire crackled cheerfully in the sheet iron heater of the tiny room where the same two people sat alone.

No more cheerful wood fires crackled and glowed in the grate.

Charge! echoed the bugles; a wailing storm, high among the tree tops, passed over them as they entered the dry woods on a run; branches crashed earthward, twig's and limbs crackled down in whirling confusion.

A moment more, and the flames roared and crackled through the building, and though it was estimated that fifteen thousand persons were present, and though the fire companies were early on the scene, not one effort was made to save the structure so recently erected, at such great cost, and consecrated to such Christian uses.

It crackled so, it burned so clear Exactly like the picture here.

A fire crackled on the hearth; and Mrs. Dennison, in her old-fashioned widow's cap, sat smiling at the head of her table.

The red flames on the fire crackled suddenly up about the back log and cast dancing shadows on his face.

Their voices murmured, a lute was played, some one sang, and through the thread of it all I saw that moment when, packed together on our cart, we hung for an instant on the top of the hill and looked back to a country that had suddenly crackled into flame.

Much of it was already blown abroad and dissipated on trail and turnpike, or crackled in harsh, unelastic fibres on hillside and meadow.

the flame kindled, crackled, and leapt up, while a responsive fire was seen on St. Catherine's Down in the Isle of Wight, and northward, eastward, westward, on every available point,

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