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Sentences starting with crack

Crack after crack sounded from the forest--from here and there and everywhere, it seemed--and with a song that like a hurtling insect ran the scale of notes, the bullets buried themselves in the trunk of our oak with a chug. [9]

Sentences ending with crack

He scanned the rim where the serrated points speared the sky, and he found the zigzag crack. [13]
They knew the proneness of prosperity to breed tyrants, and they meant when such should reappear in this fair land and commence their vocation, they should find left for them at least one hard nut to crack. [7]
She had an irresistible impulse, and glued her eye to the crack. [11]
Greenhalge could be handled all right, only--what was there in it for Greenhalge?--a nut difficult for Mr. Jason to crack. [9]
She closed the door a little more, and I felt tempted to put my foot in the crack. [9]
He heard him call to the messengers, 'So our Heinz Schorlin will have a hard nut to crack. [10]
She had even been caulked; for Grits, from an unknown and unquestionably dubious source, had procured a bucket of tar, which we heated over afire in the alley and smeared into every crack. [9]
Crack! [6]

Sentences containing crack two or more times

The crack, crack of the Deckards on the south and east were stilled; not a barrel was thrust by the weary garrison through the logs, and the place became silent as the wilderness. [9]
Natasha glanced at her and at the crack in the pantry door, and it seemed to her that she remembered the light falling through that crack once before and Sonya passing with a glass in her hand. [2]
Crack, crack, crack, goes the whip; and, amid "sensation" from the crowd, we are off at a rattling pace, the whip cracking all the time like Chinese fireworks. [4]

More example sentences with the word crack in them

Everywhere you go you see square recesses cut into the hillsides, with perpendicular walls unmarred by crack or crevice, and perhaps you fancy that a house grew out of the ground there, and has been removed in a single piece from the mold. [5]
They will have you as sure as the crack of a whip. [11]
If it broke with a loud crack I was very happy, and cried, 'Ah! [10]
I believe she will crack my bones! [6]
It was he who must snuff the candles, and put on a stick of wood, and toast the cheese, and turn the apples, and crack the nuts. [4]
Curious to see what changes time had wrought, she peered through the by no means narrow crack and overlooked the minister's spacious office, where he was now entirely alone with the Councillor Viglius. [10]
It's quite as well to crack your own filberts as to borrow the use of other people's teeth. [6]
As the bird was unable to crack them, he placed them one by one in his water-glass, evidently with the notion that they would in time become softer--an interesting proof of intelligence on the part of these birds. [1]
Then the key was turned and the bolt cautiously withdrawn, and a crack of six inches disclosed her aunt. [9]
My first impulse was to crack his head with a billiard cue; but my second was to refrain from this attention, because he was between me and the cue rack. [5]
One day Tom was in the act of dosing the crack when his aunt's yellow cat came along, purring, eying the teaspoon avariciously, and begging for a taste. [5]
When the movement was completed, each man knew that he was not the only person who had crept to the front wall and had his eye at a crack between the logs. [5]
He would sit under the battlements until the crack of doom; or rather--and more appropriate in Mr. Chamberlin's case--walk around them and around, blowing trumpets until they capitulated. [9]
Gabord was taken to the hospital, and he swore that Englishman would not have got away if stranger had not fetched him a crack with a pistol-butt which sent him dumb and dizzy. [11]
Wave a hand to me, duck your head to me, crack the whip or nod when I pass. [11]
Old beams began to crack mysteriously. [5]
It was adjusted to crack an egg-shell or smash an iron-bound trunk. [4]
The man who thought a tarantula had "got him" was mistaken--only a crack in a box had caught his finger. [5]
I would form this crack regiment out of officers alone--not a single private. [5]
And down in the small of his back Eliphalet listened for the crack of a pistol, and feared that a clean hole might be bored there any minute. [9]
By common consent the rifle crack of day and night was hushed, and even the Parrotts were silent. [9]
Little on little the horses pull up, and stop at last not a hunder' feet from the great crack and the rotten ice. [11]
Then something in the gesture corresponded with something in the face, and the auctioneer had a nut which he could not crack for many a day. [11]
I simply state the fact --for it is a fact--and leave the geological reader to crack the nut at his leisure and solve the problem after his own fashion. [5]
Then one of the doors was pushed open a scant four inches, a scarlet madras handkerchief appeared in the crack above a yellow face. [9]
They were over the capstones of the windows,--to take off the pressure from them, no doubt, for now and then a capstone will crack under the weight of the superincumbent mass. [6]
The river brushed the banks like rustling silk, and the only other sound, very sharp and clear in the liquid monotone, was the crack of a woodpecker's beak on a hickory tree. [11]
Five months after the above item appeared, Williams was assassinated while sitting at a card table one night; a gun was thrust through the crack of the door and Williams dropped from his chair riddled with balls. [5]
We all feel that there is a crack in the teacup, and are disposed to handle it carefully. [6]
I think now that it was a cowardly thing to crack the patient old fellows over the face and eyes, and make them wink in their meek manner. [4]
Impelled by a strong fascination, I went hither and thither until a sound brought me to a stand--the echoing crack of a distant rifle. [9]
Injun Joe lay stretched upon the ground, dead, with his face close to the crack of the door, as if his longing eyes had been fixed, to the latest moment, upon the light and the cheer of the free world outside. [5]
She crossed the street quickly, hurried round the corner of the house, and was passing the side-window of the shop, when a crack in the shutters caught her eye. [11]
The howl of storms, the roar and clash of waves, the crack and crash of the falling thunderbolt,--these of course made themselves heard as they do to mortal ears. [6]
After a few steps he stopped to mark his line with the crack in the rim. [13]
At all the stables the driver is king; all the people on the route are deferential to him; they are happy if he will crack a joke with them, and take it as a favor if he gives them better than they send. [4]
Then I saw some running; and next, as I stood there wondering, came another crack, and then a volley like the noise of a great fire licking into dry wood, and things that were not bees humming round about. [9]
She heard a sliding of weathered rock, a hoarse shout of warning, a yell of alarm, again the clear, sharp crack of the rifle, and another cry that was a cry of death. [13]
From a light shining through the crack of the blind he knew that Soolsby was at home. [11]
Arrah, give me, sez I, the crack of a stick, the bite of a gun, or the clip of a sabre's edge, with a shout in y'r mouth the while! [11]
And He will punish you as sure as the crack of doom. [9]
For a space--a prodigious long space--I lay very still, my heart bumping like a gun-carriage broke loose, and my eyes riveted on the crack of the door. [9]
He laid me out with a crusher alongside the head that made everything crack, and seemed to spring every joint in my skull and made it overlap its neighbor. [5]
After a knock or two here, the door opened a crack, disclosing, instead of General Doby's cherubic countenance, a sallow face with an exceedingly pointed nose. [9]
The drapery fluttered on the still outstretched arm of the tall object near the window;--a crack of this was open, no doubt, and some breath of wind stirred the hanging folds. [6]
Pie for sale on the grounds, and rocks to crack it with; and ciRcus-lemonade--three drops of lime juice to a barrel of water. [5]
That is the old chest of drawers; you never hear it crack in the daytime. [6]
As a matter of fact (known only to the initiated), Asa didn't have it in him until last night, before he squeezed through the crack in the folding doors from room number six to room Number Seven. [9]
With the crack of a whip I was off again. [9]
Occasionally the whistle of a huntsman, the snort of a horse, the crack of a whip, or the whine of a straggling hound could be heard. [2]
I got hold of a gun in the dark, and pushed it through a crack between the logs, hardly knowing what I was doing, I was so dazed with fright. [5]
Jean Jacques did not want to appear in court, and as the walking was officially good at dawn, he said good-bye to Virginie Poucette's sister through the crack of a door, and was gone before she could restrain him. [11]
There was discernible not the slightest crack of crevice in the enamel of this woman's worldly armour. [9]
Through the dulled noises of London there came to their ears the click of the wheels of a cape-wagon, the crack of the Kaffir's whip, the creak of the disselboom. [11]
It is the nature of poetry to writhe itself along through the tangled growths of the vocabulary, as a snake winds through the grass, in sinuous, complex, and unexpected curves, which crack every joint that is not supple as india-rubber. [6]
Smiling unnaturally and muttering to himself, he first sat down on the sofa in an attitude of despair, then rose, went to the door of the reception room and peeped through the crack, returned flourishing his arms, and took up a book. [2]
But there was more caution on the side of the British, for they had learned dearly how the Kentuckians could measure crack and crevice. [9]
I pity the morals of a man and the stupidity of him and the benightedness of him that would drive the Chinaman out at the point of the bayonet or by the crack of a rifle. [11]
The scrub stretches miles and miles in all directions, and looks like a level roof of bush-tops without a break or a crack in it --as seamless as a blanket, to all appearance. [5]
There isn't a man in the Carpentaria and Port Darwin country but has lost a friend by the cowardly crack of a waddy in the dead of night or a spear from behind a tree. [11]
These little birds make an extraordinary noise, the first "sharp note being not unlike the crack of a whip. [1]
He felt the little crack of doom before it came. [11]
Then, seeing the light through the crack between the partly open wooden shutters, she softly pushed them farther apart, and, resting her bare feet against the wall, she raised herself to look in. [10]
Even where--by your leave--there is a crack in the brain, it rarely happens to only one member of a family. [10]
But by-and-by, if it is to have special complex principles as a part of its organization, they must be supplied by the soil;--your pears will crack, if the root of the tree gets no iron,--your asparagus-bed wants salt as much as you do. [6]
The man opened it a crack, and then he let us in and shut it quick. [5]
And, gemini, gossip is like water, and will get in if a crack shows. [9]
He was lowered into the crevice, he descended deeper and deeper between the clear blue walls of solid ice, he approached a bend in the crack and disappeared under it. [5]
Finding a division in the tapestry, he ran his fingers quickly and heavily down the crack between. [11]
To be ring-master in the circus, and swell around and crack the whip. [5]
The cold rushes in at every crack of door and window, apparently signaled by the flame to invade the house and fill it with chilly drafts and sarcasms on what we call the temperate zone. [4]
You once were--and I am precise here--a gallant swordsman: there are legends yet of your doings with a crack Dublin bully. [11]
A crack a hundred feet long gaped open six inches wide in the middle of one street and then shut together again with such force, as to ridge up the meeting earth like a slender grave. [5]
The clatter of hooves and the crack of whips reached their ears, and, like many others before them and since, they stepped into Carvel & Company's. [9]
The green path had many obstacles, and here at the third dyke--they call it the Front-way--there were hard nuts to crack, and farther progress was impossible. [10]
How this stuff had gotten into the pipe was a puzzle for some little time; finally it was found that it had crept in through a crack that was almost invisible to the eye. [5]
The dense, untouched forest overhung both banks of the crooked little crack, and one could believe that human creatures had never intruded there before. [5]
If a shrewd fellow supposed that this sheep would not know A from B, he'll soon give him nuts to crack which are far too hard for many a learned master of arts. [10]
It licks your feet,--its huge flanks purr very pleasantly for you; but it will crack your bones and eat you, for all that, and wipe the crimsoned foam from its jaws as if nothing had happened. [6]
The Lost One's eyes wavered a second, as though their owner had not the courage to abide the effect of his action, then they quickened to a point of steadiness, as a lash suddenly knots for a crack in the hand of a postilion. [11]
The pilot knows every crack in the coast. [11]
And at the end of half of an hour my turn came, and I put my eye to the crack, and there she was, with one arm akimbo, and tossing flap-jacks in a frying-pan with the other. [5]
Down, and still down, he went, into this profound grave; when he had reached a depth of eighty feet he passed under another bend in the crack, and thence descended eighty feet lower, as between perpendicular precipices. [5]
The stones he dislodged rolled down with strange, hollow crack and roar. [13]
This time I've discovered the crack in your brain. [10]
But you've had disappointment, trouble, hard nuts to crack, and all you could do to escape the rocks being rolled down the Egyptian hill onto you; and it's left its mark. [11]
He drink all day, an' he walk a crack like a bee-line. [11]
Jump up and crack yo' heels! [5]
There was a crack through which she could see, and she could hear all that was said. [11]
Watching through the crack of the door, Mitiahwe saw the look she knew well, though it had never been turned on her, and her heart beat faster. [11]
I used to crack nuts on that, whispered the small ghost. [6]
The old friends crack jokes and whisper in the ear of the governor-to-be, who presently goes upstairs, accompanied by the Honourable Hilary Vane, to the bridal suite, which is reserved for him, and which has fire-proof carpet on the floor. [9]
They find every crack in the rocks where there are a few grains of the nourishing substance they care for, and insinuate themselves into its deepest recesses. [6]
A rag of cloud on one page, as I remember, with a streak of red zigzagging out of it across the paper as naturally as a crack runs through a China bowl. [6]
As if to celebrate a victory over everybody, a cricket chirped in a crack in the wall. [2]
It's on the bridge in a crack near the top. [13]
He knew that behind the corner of stone would be a cave or a crack which could never be suspected from below. [13]
Is not my anger terrible as I dash your argosy, your thunder-bearing frigate, into fragments, as you would crack an eggshell?--No, not anger; deaf, blind, unheeding indifference,--that is all. [6]
Wyndham was quiet and watchful, and he cudgelled his bullet-head, and looked down his long nose in meditation all the day, while his tongue became dry and thick, and his throat seemed to crack like roasting leather. [11]
The sighing wind and the twittering quail and the singing birds, even the rare and seldom-occurring hollow crack of a sliding weathered stone, only thickened and deepened that insulated silence. [13]

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