The deer fed and fed on, and we waited anxiously to hear the crack of the rifle, and see the deer go down; but still the boat glided on unnoticed by the animal that was feeding in unsuspecting security.

I gave the horses a crack or two of the whip, and they started off at a very rapid gait.

For he could also see many men waiting for him with clubs, and he could hear the cracking of whips, and feel the sting of their lashes.

Then suddenly, silently, the door opened a mere crack, letting in a gleam of yellow light from the main cabin, while the crouching figure of a man, like a gliding shadow slipped through the aperture, closing the door behind him as softly as he had opened it.

You find cracks where the marl mud has dried in the sun: and, more, you find the little pits made by rain.

Has Caesar got a sand crack?" and Louis sauntered up, the inevitable cigar between his lips.

What is important, therefore, is, by good contrivance and careful execution, to stop all cracks as far as possible.

Well, last night he got vicious and took a crack at my lines.

The whole of the back of the mummy-case was coated with bitumen, and it would be easy when once the deceased was safely inside to apply a fresh coat, which would cover up not only the cracks but also the new lacing.

Hence the wolverine was very angry, and he hit her a crack on the head and knocked her into the water.

No sound, be it ever so shrill, cuts so sharply into the brain as this cursed cracking of whips; you feel the sting of the lash right inside your head; and it affects the brain in the same way as touch affects a sensitive plant, and for the same length of time.

But dark as the night was, the boy saw distinctly all the cracks and holes there were, and took daring leaps over them.

When he starts his tree trapping in the morning he does not flit carelessly from one tree to another, but after selecting his feeding ground, goes all over one branch, never leaving it for another until he has searched every crack and leaf.

To-night, when she went to open her window, she noticed that the houses opposite had lost courage and showed only cracks.

From top to bottom they inspected the door to discover a crack large enough for him to get through, and soon found one.

When they had hoisted up, and fixed in place, the logs on each side, and the big fellow that went all across on top; when they had filled the inconsiderable cracks between the bottles with some of the mud-mortar with which the logs were to be chinked, behold a double glass window fit for a king!

They would chink up the cracks with grass and dirtwhat they called 'dob'.

They have very long and very thin roots, admirably suited to pierce the grit, and explore the cracks in the rock, to find the moisture they need.

And Boots signifies to me that, if the fine boy's father had contradicted him in the daring state of mind in which he then was, he thinks he should have "fetched him a crack," and taken the consequences.

It is usual to classify sand-cracks according to (a) Their Position.

A.The mould into which the metal is poured is built up of bricks and loam, the loam being clay and sand ground together in a mill, with the addition of a little horse-dung to give it a fibrous structure and prevent cracks.

At early dawn, the swine-herd takes his stand at the outskirts of the first village, and begins flourishing through the misty air his immensely long lash, keeping a sort of rude time with the crack, crack, crack, crack, crack, crack of his whip.

Thus, in just so far as a predisposing build of body may be handed down from parent to offspring, we may regard sand-crack as hereditary.

But on the word followed a more ominous crack, and there was the whine of a bullet above them.

But he had taken great care to leave a crack which would only allow a little person like Mäzli to slip through without sticking fast in the opening.