Cracked

Examples

• The only person in my neighbourhood, whose face I had ever seen before, was an old, cracked sort of a general, his name I have forgotten. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
• I suppose, however, he had this move in his mind—he was always half-cracked—and then considered her provided for. Charles Dickens. Hard Times.
• They had always cracked in other wars. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
• Eggs and nuts are cracked without being crushed, and the power exerted and the strain endured automatically recorded. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• The more cracked it was, the more Mrs General varnished it. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
• Spects they's gwine to trade ye off with a lot o' cracked tea-pots and sich like! Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
• On hearing that I had been once more discovered I started so that the railing against which I leaned cracked again. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• The nuts they cracked between their powerful jaws, or, if too hard, broke by pounding between stones. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
• His revolver cracked, and I saw the blood spurt from the front of Woodley's waistcoat. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
• At one side of the coronet was a cracked edge, where a corner holding three gems had been torn away. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
• She cannot sing, it is my belief: her voice is as cracked as thine, O thou beer-soaking Renowner! William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• But before the armour of his pity really broke, he would die, as an insect when its shell is cracked. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• You want it all in that loathsome little skull of yours, that ought to be cracked like a nut. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• He held up a nut which he had just cracked, and it contained no kernel—an apt illustration of his wasted life. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
• The plump young man led us to a spot where the top of one of the wooden rails had been cracked. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
• He grinned at her, a cracked, stiff, too-tightened-facial-tendoned grin. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
• The smooth varnish on HIS wicked old face never cracked. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
• The ringers cracked a bell in Briarfield belfry; it is dissonant to this day. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• It is cracked; I hear her trying out of her window a schrecklich English ballad, called 'De Rose upon de Balgony. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• Appears to be rather a cracked old cock,' thought Silas, qualifying his former good opinion, as the other ambled off. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• The wind arose; the sea roared; and, as with the mighty shock of an earthquake, it split, and cracked with a tremendous and overwhelming sound. Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.
• The yellow postilion cracked his whip prodigiously, up sprang Francis to the box, away went the schimmels, and Dobbin with his head on his breast. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• Then I came in with cracked hickory nuts, then pop-corn balls, and, finally, molasses candy. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• If one cracked your skull perhaps one might get a spontaneous, passionate woman out of you, with real sensuality. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• The postilion cracked his whip, and they clattered away under the feeble over-swinging lamps. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
• I had heard him call them his treasures: as I picked them up, cracked and worthless, my hand trembled. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
• She oughter cracked me over de head for bein' so sarcy; but dar's whar 't is--I can't do nothin' with ladies in de kitchen! Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
• Thar's some tickets in that ar old cracked jug on the top shelf, said Dinah. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
• September 19th, the ice began to move, and roarings like thunder were heard at a distance, as the islands split and cracked in every direction. Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.
• Strange, stiff garments were upon my body; garments that cracked and powdered away from me as I rose to a sitting posture. Edgar Rice Burroughs. A Princess of Mars.

Edited by Clifford