An attack once made on Mr. Crayshaw's hollow reputation, it cracked on every side; first hints crept out, then scandals flew.
It was as if at that moment the heavens had cracked asunder and the night had fallen away in chaos.
Dan jerked about, his whip crackedout over the heads of the leaders and they broke into a quick trot.
When ready to use it, you must fill a goblet three-quarters of the way to the top with the clear tea; sweeten it more lavishly than you would hot, and fill up the glass with cracked ice.
Free use of cracked or pounded ice is also admirable for sore throat of every kind.
And when he returned with his string of rainbows, Dolly, uncovering the dutch-oven which he had bought on his arrival, but the mystery of which he had never mastered, proudly showed him the cracked golden dome of a swelling loaf of bread.
A tree, sap-bursting, cracked resoundingly; the sound went through her like a sliver.
Tea is drunk out of all kinds of queer receptacles, goblets, old tankards, ancient glasses, Japanese shells, the whole chipped and cracked by the constant moves.
Nearly all their notes in the upper register were more or less cracked and disobedient.
The ship twisted and writhed; her decks bulged upward, and every timber groaned and cracked like the report of a pistol.
He's dropped or broken his paddle--cracked it when he shoved her out.
Then a gun cracked away to the right and in another moment a dropping fusillade broke out.
The cocks are atrociously noisy, two in particular had such lengthened, cracked or quavering voices, that they were quite a nuisance.
The drivers crackedtheir whips, the wagons, in a double line, moved slowly on over the gray-green plains.
These held the hot stuff from the jug, however, as well as golden goblets would have done; and Bob served it out with beaming looks, while the chestnuts on the fire sputtered and cracked noisily.
It now froze so hard that the surface of the ice cracked again; yet the duckling still paddled about, to prevent the hole from closing up.
When the little man had in a degree recovered from his fright, his little thin cracked voice was heard saying, "Could you not handle me more gently?
He crept in hours after the others and collapsed, his bare soles cracked and legs in pain.
I think the reason they are cracked up so much is because they are almost half vegetable so they suit the climate; being suitable, they have been so long practised that their making is an art that only an amateur might imitate at home.
Then he cracked his whip, and called out, "Good-by, Dolly.
Our folks wants to know if your mother'll lend us some sugar," he said, at the same time handing out a cracked tea-cup.
I cracked it a little, maybe, on the boat; but it took a big hammer to smash it, and now I've swept all the fragments away.
He had on patent-leather boots, cracked with old age and caked with new mud.
There was a faint tinkle as of a fairy bell--a cracked fairy bell, and a tiny shape leaped from the bench.
If he has returned as cracked as he went away, there is no cause for rejoicing," gruffly said the old man, who was irritated by his incomprehensible failure.
But Ivan got up, pulled out his axe, swung with all his might, and hit the tree so hard from the other side that it cracked and came down with a crash.
Oh, it yelled and howled and screached like a wounded hyaena, till my ears fairly cracked agin.
The collision had cracked my temper, and I had a mind to give Muckle John a lesson in civility.
My voice came out of my throat, funnily cracked as if from long disuse.
They had their knives out, but I managed to disarm the one who attacked me, and my horse upset a second, while the Indian, who had no weapon but a stave, cracked the head of the last.
At last the long prelude came to an end; and above the crackedguitars and squeaking fiddles there arose, not the expected nasal chorus, but a single voice singing below its breath.
The earthquakes cracked the crust of the earth, moisture entered the cracks and, when the frosts came, pieces of rock were broken away, owing to the expansion of the moisture in the cracks as it became converted into ice.
Rye grains are frequently cracked and often have ragged edges.
But those huge German guns, they cracked the cupolas like nutshells, and killed or wounded every man in the forts.
In passing through the narrow doorway the muzzle of the weapon struck the plate-glass window of the porch and cracked it.
A hasty examination failed to reveal signs of structural damage to the little craft, although the scuttle-glasses of the cabin were all either cracked or completely demolished.
