...The dull and monotonous sound of our steps, the cracking of the frost,and the feeble groans of the dying, were the only interruptions to thisdoleful and universal silence... 
George Grote 「The Two Great Retreats of History」
..."It looks wild and desolate allright, but at that I can't fancy a bus cracking up here and not beingfound pronto...
Various 「Astounding Stories, August, 1931」
...And mind and dinnae fire to this side unless they get me down; for I would rather have ten foes in front of me than one friend like you cracking pistols at my back...
Robert Louis Stevenson 「Kidnapped」
...As he moved, he dropped his hand to his pocket, and swift upon the cracking of Binet’s breaking cane came the crack of the pistol with which Andre-Louis replied...
Rafael Sabatini 「Scaramouche」
... I saw thisclearly in a second while my wrists were cracking with the strain...
John Buchan 「Prester John」
...It cackled at him, cracking back and forth down the cavern to die with a groan in illimitable darkness...
Talbot Mundy 「King--of the Khyber Rifles」
...Why, this is strange,” he said suddenly, cracking upon a large nut; “three kernels! I have not observed that before...
(AKA Ralph Iron) Olive Schreiner 「The Story of an African Farm」
...If thecommand is occasionally accompanied with the cracking of yourwhip, its meaning will soon be understood ()...
Dinks, Mayhew, and Hutchinson 「The Dog」
...The grain is partially baked, swells up and becomes brittle,the husk cracking, when it is scraped up and lifted out with the ladle,the sand being riddled through back into the pan...
Joshua A. Nunn 「Notes on Stable Management in India and the Colonies」
...Sims(1955) describes the Hawfinch's immobile upper jaw, which isused as a powerful press in cracking the stones of fresh fruit...
Robert L. Merz 「Jaw Musculature of the Mourning and White-winged Doves」
...I have just been practising on insects tricks which to allappearances are as puerile as those which we practised on the Turkeysin the days when the farmer's wife used to run after us cracking herwhip...
Jean Henri Fabre Alexander Teixeira de Mattos 「The Glow-Worm and Other Beetles」
...Pacey presently went swaggering across it, cracking his jockey whipagainst his leg, followed by Mr...
R. S. Surtees 「Mr. Sponge's Sporting Tour」
...If you find a mink drowned and thoroughly water soaked, take it by the head, just like you were cracking a whip, then by the hind legs and crack it the same way...
A. R. (Arthur Robert) Harding 「Mink Trapping」
...Our route was immediately abandoned, and in a few minutes we were in the thick of the flock, cracking away at them both with shot-gun and rifle...
Mayne Reid 「The Hunters' Feast」
...My bullet had hit and stung the fierce brute to madness; and a quick cracking among the bushes was immediately followed by a heavy plunge: the bear was in the water!...
Mayne Reid 「The Hunters' Feast」
...My skin feels as if it was cracking...
George Manville Fenn 「Off to the Wilds」
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