At another time, when we heard a slight crackling of twigs and he landed to reconnoitre, he stepped lightly and gracefully, stealing through the bushes with the least possible noise, in a way in which no white man does,as it were, finding a place for his foot each time.

She went back hastily to her fire, glad to hear the crackle of the flames, grateful to have the emptiness made somewhat less the yawning void by the small sound of a bit of wood rolling apart on the rock floor.

Brutus threw another log on the fire, which gave off a brisk crackling from the bed of coals.

After an interminable delay his ears caught the crackle of dry twigs snapped beneath a human foot.

Don't scorch your crackling for 'em, Sir. MR. H. Scorch my crackling!

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

Then think of men, leaving the trenches at dusk, going back about a mile and a half, and bringing sundry large and heavy boxes up to the trenches, pausing now and again for a rest, and ignoring the intermittent crackling of rifle fire in the darkness, and the sharp "phit" of bullets hitting the mud all around.

I carefully kept from making any thrashing or swishing of boughs, any crackling of twigs, or from walking with a heavy footfall; and I wondered more and more as I neared what I knew must be the other end of the grove, why they had not left the water and made camp.

There is a quiet, steady, unobtrusive, crisp, not loud, but very knowing little creeping crackle that is tolerably intelligible.

She sat there for a while, cold with disappointment, listening to the tearing open of envelopes and the pleasant crackle of thick letter-paper.

Thus, the thunder, which near at hand is a wild crash, or nearer yet a crazy crackle, is by distance deepened and refined into that marvellous bass which we all know.

Nor was there, he noticed, any crackling of twigs or rustling of dead leaves.

" The girl leaned forward, eagerly; "And supposesupposethat after the convict had done his master's biddingsuppose that after he had taken the girl away from her friendssuppose, then, the man would not marry her?" For a moment there was no sound in the little room, save the crackling of the fire in the fire-place, and the sound of a stick that had burned in two, falling in the ashes.

By now the castle echoed with a frightful din through which arose a sinister crackling.

Then it was that hethe worldfirst tasted crackling.

A faint breeze brought the tiny crackling of the wheat.

We knew that the ice was in awful upheaval around us; we heard, as our eyelids sweetly closed, the slow booming of distant guns, and brittle cracklings of artillery.

From all along the crest burst the hard, sharp crackle of Remington fire.

The slaps of his left hand cased in leathern fence constitute the crackling of that flame.