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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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!

A buzz sounded in his ears, he felt the crack of a whip around his chest, the red mist reappeared before his eyes, he again saw the corpses of his wife and daughter, and beside them the usurper with the friar laughing and holding his sides.

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.

Take dirt and dob the cracks.

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.

The man was fully thirty yards from them: but close to him, between them and him, stretched a long ghastly crack, some ten feet wide, cutting the point across.

If you will watch the poor engineer when he stops his engine, he will, if he does anything, pick up a wrench, go around to the wrist pin, strike the key a little crack, draw a nut or peck away at something else, and can't see anything for grease and dirt.

"Hurry, my child," urged Coquenil, and working madly with a piece of stick that he had wrenched from one of the logs, he met each feather of smoke with a strip of cloth, stuffing the cracks with shreds of garments, with Alice's veil and hat ribbon, with the lining of his coat, then with the body of it, with the waist of her dress, with his socks, with her stockings, and still the smoke came through.