But they sat as before, stiff, alert, each man in his ice jacket that cracked and crunched as he bent to his oar.

Kazan knew this, as he crunched his enemy's shoulder-bone, and every instanteven in their fiercest strugglinghe was guarding against a second and more successful lunge of those powerful jaws.

Then she crunched it between her teeth.

He's just crunched up pretty badth' Ramblin' Kid jumped on him, like Captain Jack did on that feller from the Chickasaw that tried to steal him!" Skinny's mind was in a whirl.

Monona, who had previously hidden a cooky in her frock, now remembered it and crunched sidewise, the eyes ruminant.

Appropriate to her Jove-like mood, Nature had planted stern thickets of oak-trees along the rocky edge, and "the acorns of our lord of Chaonia" crunched beneath our feet as we walked on.

" A heavy foot crunched the gravel without.

All of a sudden a long snout and the ugly serrated ridgy back of a nakar was shot like lightning at the hapless bird, and right before our eyes the poor paddy was crunched up.

"The sledge runners crunched on the ice, but for all that he heard how the wolves panted, and knew that the beasts were almost upon him.

The point near the bridge held for some time, until the weight behind forced some part down and crunched its way through in one irresistible push; the other part rose over the resistance and rolled like an avalanche over and over, smashing itself into huge blocks which were forced into a rampart fifty feet high, when the enormous weight broke the ice platform on which it was piled, and the whole moved majestically off towards the Volga.

His long claws click-click-clicked on the stones; he crunched heavily in the gravel; in soft sand he left enormous footprints.

He finished his sweet and started another; he always meant to suck them right through to make them last longer, but when the sweet was half finished he invariably crunched it up.

The surface was hard frozen, and the ice crunched loudly under our feet.

Footsteps crunched on the gravel.

As the two walked, their feet crunched on a layer of splintered glass and broken crockery.

The letter was crunched into a pocket.

Round about the dixie go; In the dense ingredients throw Extra bully, every lump Pinched from some forbidden dump, Biscuits crunched to look like flour, Cabbage sweet and onions sour Make the broth as thick as glue.

When at length the boat crunched upon the sandy shore he got up unsteadily from the stern and pointed to the pharos that flamed in the heavens.

It lay on the surface of the water only a few feet distant from us and threatened us; we threw cakes of mud at it, whereupon it clashed its jaws and made short rushes at us, and when we threw sticks it seized them and crunched them.

Various degrees of progress could be read in the air and manner of the hearty young "bourgeoises" and their paler or even ruddier partners, as they crunched their bread or sipped their thin wine.

Jinny had some sweets in her pocket, and crunched one occasionally.

He crunched about cautiously in the snow.

Trainmen crunched past on the cinders.

When the white sand, with which the entire entrance-hall and the space in front of the house was thickly sprinkled, grated and crunched in a lively manner under his feet, this seemed to afford him a special pleasure.

A step crunched the gravel near them, and in a moment that flashed vividly with rejoicing that the fight was ended, then with abject, chattering terror, Mealy Jones saw his father approaching.