A moment later there was the sharp crash of a gun and a shot went across the bows of the sailing vessel.

I happened, one day, to be walking along its Southern edge, when, suddenly, several pieces of rock and shale were dislodged from the face of the cliff immediately beneath me, and fell with a sullen crash through the trees.

the ball shot, and crashed into Thurston's wicket.

" Starting forward in his chair, with partially opened eyes, the white-washed and dingy Mr. BUMSTEAD managed to get off his hat, covering himself with a bandanna handkerchief and innumerable old pieces of paper and cloth, as he did so, from head to foot; made a feeble effort to throw it at the aged lawyer; and then, chair and all, tumbled forward with a crash to the rug, where he lay in a refreshing sleep.

He staggered back a step, and I deftly tripped him up, so that he fell with a crash on the hard floor.

As part of the same movement, Darrin's left crashed against Pennington's nose.

Shillito vanished and a crash in the gloom indicated that he had fallen on an aloe in a tub by the path.

No more let sleep's seductive charms Upon your torpid souls be shed: A crash like this, such dire alarms, Might burst the slumbers of the dead.

While yet they gazed, they were startled by a loud crash from an adjacent closet, and were even more discomposed as a large monkey bounded forth, whose sleek coat, exuberant playfulness, and preternatural agility convinced all that the deceased philosopher, under an inspiration of supreme irony, had administered to the creature every drop of the Elixir of Life.

A crash at the bottom of the narrow cañon told Racey what had happened to that part of the stringer the dynamite had not destroyed.

For hours the storm crashed over her, and the rain fell in a deluge.

It was a sound of some sort, a crash with a human cry at the end of it, which still jarred on my ears.

For nearly two hours this frightful hurly-burly continued, the harsh roar reverberating ominously in the gorges of the hills, and thrown back, in crash after crash, from the rocky slopes of the two ridges.

And without warning, without mercy, the world had crashed about him.

I'll go down myself an' git 'im." He heard a crash behind him, and he turned in time to see the iron roof of the carriage disappear into the mouth of the shaft.

The rifles were scarcely reloaded when the deep baying of the hounds was heard, and two more deer came crashing across the isthmus where we were stationed.

The girl cried out, but didn't know it, and crouched low; the horn added a squawk of frenzy to a wild clamour of yells; all prefatory to a scrunching, rending crash as, in the very mouth of the gateway, a front fender of the incoming car ripped through the rear fender above which Sofia was sitting.

Then, as I took my weight from off the parapet, a huge piece of the stone coping slid from under me, and fell with a crash among the disorganized throng beneath.

* Mr. Taynton, as was indeed to be expected, had been much affected during the giving of his evidence, and when the inquest was over, he returned to Brighton feeling terribly upset by this sudden tragedy, which had crashed without warning into his life.

The lightning flashed again, and the thunder crashed above them like the clanging of brazen gates.

Occasionally, only occasionally, a bubble comes to the surface, and when it bursts the echo goes crashing around the earth.

Came a roaring crash beneath whose dire shock Sir Pertolepe's ranks were riven and rent asunder, and over and through their red confusion Sir Benedict rode in thunderous, resistless might, straight for where, above their mid-most, close-set ranks, fluttered and flew Sir Pertolepe's Raven banner.

Round shot and grape, rifle-balls and canister, come crashing down the causeway into the Mexican ranks from their own battery.

In the darkness close under a stable wall I stood listening to the great crashes for an hour, when I had not expected such a grace of life.

And we came nearer, till I could spy her face, her smile, and I shouted her to stop, and in a minute stopped myself, and by happy steering came with slowing headway to a slight crash by her side, and ran down the trellised steps to her, and led her up; and on the deck, without saying a word, I fell to my knees before her, and I bowed my brow to the floor, with obeisance, and I worshipped her there as Heaven.