例文・使い方で印象づける「cracking」の覚え方
スポンサーリンク...The dull and monotonous sound of our steps, the cracking of the frost,and the feeble groans of the dying, were the only interruptions to thisdoleful and universal silence... 
George Grote 「The Two Great Retreats of History」
... From the tangled forestcame the sound of cracking limbs and crashing trunks—Tantor was comingdown upon them, a huge Juggernaut of the jungle...
Edgar Rice Burroughs 「Tarzan and the Jewels of Opar」
... No more didNuma roar forth a rumbling challenge to the world but rather hemoved silent and grim, stepping softly that no cracking twig mightbetray his presence to the keen-eared quarry he sought...
Edgar Rice Burroughs 「Tarzan the Untamed」
...One played the part of the lion andjumped growling at a comrade, who immediately ran backwards just as Ihad done, shouting "Ta, Ta, Ta" and cracking his fingers to representthe rifle-shots...
J. H. Patterson 「The Man-eaters of Tsavo and Other East African Adventures」
...I was like a child with a new whip, which it goes about cracking everywhere, not caring against what...
Olive Schreiner 「Dream Life and Real Life」
...Two ladies are represented sitting under a tree at Reigate, and, after some preliminary remarks on the terrible subject of lynching, Miss Willard laughingly replies by cracking a joke...
Ida B. Wells-Barnett 「The Red Record」
...Scarcely had the signal gone forth when tails were cracking in alldirections—in the pond, in the hidden canals, in the thick willows andalders...
James Oliver Curwood 「Baree, Son of Kazan」
...Corbie took the morsel and swallowed it, and soon was cracking forhimself all the snails his comrades gave him...
Edith M. Patch 「Bird Stories」
...I have just been practising on insects tricks which to allappearances are as puerile as those which we practised on the Turkeysin the days when the farmer's wife used to run after us cracking herwhip...
Jean Henri Fabre Alexander Teixeira de Mattos 「The Glow-Worm and Other Beetles」
... We, the smaller ones, in addition to the comfort of studying with our mouths full, had every now and then two other delights, which were quite as good as cracking nuts...
J. Henri Fabre Alexander Teixeira de Mattos 「The Life of the Fly」
...If you find a mink drowned and thoroughly water soaked, take it by the head, just like you were cracking a whip, then by the hind legs and crack it the same way...
A. R. (Arthur Robert) Harding 「Mink Trapping」
...Ike already cracking away at the wolves—his peculiar enemies...
Mayne Reid 「The Hunters' Feast」
...The wolves then scampered off, but already the cracking rifles and shot-guns were heard above the shouts of the charging cavalcade, and both the cow and calf were seen sinking to the earth...
Mayne Reid 「The Hunters' Feast」
...The crows were cawing inthe same direction; but every few minutes wouldcome a strange cracking sound—c-r-r-rack-a-rack-rack,as if some one had a giant nutcracker and were snappingit rapidly...
William J. Long 「Ways of Wood Folk」
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