Then there came an almost crunching sound.

There was a cracking of bone and a crunching of flesh, and the circle of waiting wolves grew tense and alert.

And in her blindness Gray Wolf's soulif soul she hadrose in exultation to the cold gray sky, and her breast panted against Kazan's shoulder as she listened to the crunching of fangs in the flesh and bone of the foe her lord and master had overthrown.

Most of that day he spent in gnawing at wood and crunching mouthfuls of earth and mold between his jaws.

She saw how he walked swiftly, his big boots crunching through the gravel down by the creek bed, splashing through the water, carrying him up the timbered slope toward the horses.

Then, beginning far away and coming closer with the speed of an onrushing hurricane, Gloria heard heavy feet crunching in the dirt and gravel.

The snow was crisp, crunching underfoot; sunny days had thawed, clear, cold nights had frozen, and the crust had begun to form.

The crunching sound made by the Gold Dust maverick, munching at the pile of hay on the ground in the corral, blended with and seemed a queer accompaniment to the melody that came from the scene of revelry up at the house.

There was a horrible crunching sound as of bones and flesh being ground into pulp.

Before he reached the back of the barn he heard the feet of two people crunching the hard ground in front of it.

The drivers went to the packhorses' heads, and so we walked down to the strand, a silent moving group of men and horses mixed; and before we came to the bottom, heard the first boat's nose grind on the beach, and the feet of the seamen crunching in the pebbles.

The 120-stamp mill makes such a deafening noise that there is no fear that the curious minded will cause employés to waste any time answering questions, for nothing can be heard but the rise and fall of the great crushers and the crunching of the ores.

There were broken lamps and broken bottles and broken windowpanes everywhere, and one could not step without an accompaniment of crunching glass from underfoot.

And while he talked with Robinson in the library Bobby caught at times the crunching of Paredes's feet in the court.

The grizzlies gazed at each other, the newcomer crunching a fish as he looked.

"Perhaps," says Mr. Wedgwood, (p. 398,) "from the crunching sound of eating the crisp, green herb.

Once, as she looked out the door, thinking she heard footsteps crunching in the snow, some one rapped out a coarse oath that drove her back with burning face.

The heart of Allen Golyer swelled under his satin waistcoat with love and joy and devotion as he walked over the crunching roads with his pretty enslaver.

and then they lay down to sleep; but in the middle of the night he heard the old woman crunching away trying to bite his bow to pieces.

As her husband heard the old man munching and crunching the bones he smiled to himself at the success of the plot.

"Listen, and you shall presently hear her name," the clergyman whispered, glancing up at the other over his teacup, but Spinrobin was crunching his toast too noisily to notice the meaning of the words fully.

For a moment he listened to the animal's contented crunching, and then crept across the room to his cot, with a little moan.

More snow had fallen, and now it was freezing, so that every step they took produced a peculiar, almost metallic crunching.

It was a crunching of heavy feet, punctuated now and again by the clattering of a displaced stone.

The hammer strokes ring cheery, The plane gives forth a crunching drawl, The rasping saw sounds weary.