Sentence examples for and the cracking of from inspiring English sources

The churches, houses, and all on fire and flaming at once; and a horrid noise the flames made, and the cracking of houses at their ruine.

His nighttime sleep, in his cottage among his 122 acres of orchards, is disrupted by the thud of dropping fruit and the cracking of branches.

It applies to white Southerners' practice of cracking corn for food (think grits and corn bread) and the cracking of a whip when driving cattle.

She knew the sounds that people made on the phone: the bottle unscrewed or uncorked, the pour of liquid over ice and the cracking of the ice.

"It made me weep to see it … a horrid noise the flames made, and the cracking of houses at their ruin".

I could hear the chink of the gate-chains over the whine of the wind in the high branches and the cracking of boughs in the cold.

Avoid tensing up before singing the high note; this leads to the tightening of throat muscles and subsequently the cracking of the voice.

On summer days, it rang with the whine of motorcycles and the crack of gunfire.

"I would miss the thwack of the ball and the crack of the bat," he mused.

Baseball used to be a sport of reverie, with the murmur of the crowd, the chatter of announcers on transistor radios and the crack of bats.

It backs up to McCormick Field, home to Asheville's minor-league baseball team, the Tourists — the listing agent says you occasionally hear cheering and the crack of bats.