crepitate

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The mansionHad marked his fatuous expansion.The years were full, the house was fated,The rotten structure crepitated!

From Moral Emblems by Stevenson, Robert Louis

The years were full, the house was fated, The rotten structure crepitated!

From The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. XXII (of 25) Juvenilia and Other Papers by Stevenson, Robert Louis

From farther off, heard at Equator Town for instance, the measures rose and fell and crepitated like the barking of hounds in a distant kennel.

From The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 18 (of 25) by Stevenson, Robert Louis