Cracking

Examples

• Then the bridge blew and one horse snapped his halter when he rose and jerked his head at the cracking roar and he went off through the trees. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
• That was probably why the Communists were always cracking down on Bohemianism. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
• The wind howled dismally all night, and strange cracking and groaning noises sounded here, there, and everywhere in the empty house. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• In a day or two this becomes a deeper brown, and more or less disorganized, cracking, either round the edge, or right across the center, so that it can be readily peeled away. William K. David. Secrets of Wise Men, Chemists and Great Physicians.
• With that second shot came the cracking boom of grenades from around the corner below the bridge. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
• He had rushed down the stairs and flung across the street in a minute--the yellow postilion was cracking his whip gently. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• The boom was a sharp crack that widened in the cracking and on the hillside he saw a small fountain of earth rise with a plume of gray smoke. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
• The nutcracker (Fig. 101) is an illustration of a double lever of the wheelbarrow kind; the nearer the nut is to the fulcrum, the easier the cracking. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
• It's a family business, sir, says George, cracking filberts. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• At that moment there was a cracking noise, and his figure fell into fragments like a pack of cards. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
• Then they both laughed, and began cracking nuts, and spitting the shells about. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
• The gun was firing now with the rocket whish and the cracking, dirt-spouting boom. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
• To avoid cracking the vial by exposure to such sudden heat use a thin green glass vial and hold it in the steam for a few seconds before immersing it in the hot water. William K. David. Secrets of Wise Men, Chemists and Great Physicians.
• Is it not possible that graft is the cracking and bursting of the receptacles in which we have tried to constrain the business of this country? Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• The rollers operate in sets, and successive crackings are obtained by passing and repassing, if necessary, the grain through these rollers, set at different distances apart. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.

Editor: Vlad