What is "crackling"

Usage examples of "crackling".

In CIC, aerology, the coding room, men listened tensely to the crackling, buzzing speakers that would tell the story of the battle before it broke overhead.

Sheridan got up, and Bibbs took a seat by the fire, holding out his hands to the crackling blaze, for it was cold outdoors.

By now I am a crackling sorcerer of grub and booze, of philtres and sex-spells.

Britishborn bairns lisping prayers to the Sacred Infant, youthful scholars grappling with their pensums or model young ladies playing on the pianoforte or anon all with fervour reciting the family rosary round the crackling Yulelog while in the boreens and green lanes the colleens with their swains strolled what times the strains of the organtoned melodeon Britannia metalbound with four acting stops and twelvefold bellows, a sacrifice, greatest bargain ever .

And so six times a day all traffic on the carriageway was forced to halt for twenty minutes while that beneath floated through on the tide: hoys and shallops headed upstream with loads of malt and dried haddock, bumboats and pinnaces going downstream with hogsheads of ale and sugar for the merchantmen at Tower Dock, sometimes even the yacht of the King himself on its way to the races at Greenwich, masts swaying and sails crackling.

The small fire crackling just a few feet away had not even begun to warm the cavelet, but neither of them noticed the chill.

He turned his head and watched Doxy as she knelt in front of a crackling fire, turning slices of salt pork in an iron skillet.

The familiar sound of crackling fire and sizzling meat brought his amused glance to Doxy, who was in the process of lifting a pot of coffee off the hot coals.

He somersaulted, flipped, spotted Electro hovering just above him on a crackling arc of sheer energy.

Behind him the dry thatch of the fale caught, going up with a high, crackling hiss.

As he squeezed the bottle until it made a crackling sound, the fingerlets pulled back from his knuckles, revealing a glimpse of thin blue lines traced on each finger.

It was over swiftly, the harsh crackling of hackbut fire and a rain of bullets through the dawn light, followed by screams and the battle snouts of the shadeen.

Raising one hand, the sovereign warlock threw a crackling, virulent green sphere at the hulking hirsute figure.

The crackling grew more intense, sparking now with small bolts of lightning, feathering out from the keels like jagged spears.

Where only a tenday ago Bart had struggled in crackling dry grass, now redheart buds, keld cabbages, yellow bowl flowers, white spring roses, and orange baby slippers competed with the emerald spring herbs and shrubs.