There was a dead hush in the place, nothing but the crackle of the fire and the steady drip of the rain.

Before this burned a big fire of heather roots and bog-wood, which hissed and crackled in the rain.

They crackled like whips.

The edge of the pile was lit, and the flames crackled through the hay below the faggots.

There was no wind to ruffle the man's hair, no sound of a falling cone or of dead leaves crackling under a squirrel's foot.

A twig crackled on my left, but it did not disquiet me, and there was a rustling in the thicket which was not the breeze.

Suddenly there came a gust of wind through the trees, which set them creaking and crackling with vague apprehension, for the wind is always the mischief makerthe tattlerthe brawler who starts the troubleand the peaceful, slumbering absent-minded prairie fire, nibbling away at a few dead roots and grass, had been too much for it.

From time to time I put my hand to the breast of my tunic and felt the paper crackle beneath my fingers.

The arquebuses crackled from the boat in front, but, balls are answering from behind.

Then suddenly his voice crackled across the room"You know, of course, that you are suspected of Warren's murder?" Silence!

The paint was beginning to crackle along the rail.

He crashed and crackled among trees, bushes, logs, loose stones, till he lay bruised and groaning far below.

The canes burnt like shavings, exploding with a perpetual crackle at each joint.

The gray morning passed away; the village on the hill sent down busy sounds of labor and cheer; flies buzzed on the sunny pane, doors clicked and slammed in the house, fires crackled behind the shining fire-dogs.

Our joints crackled for themselves as we beat the current.

And with the unexpectedness of a bursting shell the surface of the ground before our feet crackled into a ghastly blue flame.

We went crackling over broken glass, past gaping cornices and holes in the pavement, five feet across and three feet deep, and once passed a house quietly burning away with none to so much as watch the fire.

you feel it all crackling between your teeth!

It crackled against his slicker; it beat like hands against his face.

For my part, I liked the "watch night" the best, and if it were possible to keep sober, one might enjoy the funsad havoc indeed was then made among the poultrywhen ducks and fowls were crackling before the fire all night; in fact, a few previous days were regular shooting days, and the little birds were killed by scores.

Now, shepherds' purses are crisp, and crackle to the touch, and sometimes I have known a pebble get inside one and rattle like a pea in a drum; and this little bag that I pulled out was dry too, and crackling, and had something of the size of a small pebble that rattled in the inside of it.

Sometimes, too, a detachment traversing the savanna would notice with affright a column of thin smoke stealing up into the sky a mile to windward; and almost before the bugle or the drum could summon them to arms, the flames would be seething and crackling around them, and roaring away, in an ocean of fire, across the savanna beyond.

To get nearer, the lovers went up through the rushes, stopping, bending over at each step, to keep the branches from crackling underneath their feet.

At the same time a rattling blast of revolver shots crackled above them; the grey reared and pitched back.