crepitate
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The sixpences do not "bang" in this country: they crepitate, they crackle, as though shot from a Maxim quick-firer.
From America To-day, Observations and Reflections by William Archer
The portions containing air are of a light brick-red colour, and crepitate under the finger.
From Aids to Forensic Medicine and Toxicology by W. G. Aitchison (William George Aitchison ) Robertson
V. rap, snap, tap, knock, ping; click; clash; crack, crackle; crash; pop; slam, bang, blast, boom, clap, clang, clack, whack, wham; brustle†; burst on the ear; crepitate, rump. blow up, blow; detonate.
From Roget's Thesaurus of English Words and Phrases by Peter Mark Roget
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 Robert Louis Stevenson
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 Robert Louis Stevenson
The mansionHad marked his fatuous expansion.The years were full, the house was fated,The rotten structure crepitated!
From Moral Emblems by Robert Louis Stevenson
During the period of congestion which lasts about a day, one can hear both healthy and crepitating sounds.
From Common Diseases of Farm Animals by R. A. Craig, D.V.M.
Complete absence of the respiratory murmur, with the crepitating wheezing always at the bottom of the chest; sometimes a gurgling noise.
From The Dog by William Youatt
The big dab of butter soon melted, and in a moment the trout were crepitating and curling up in the pan, sending forth heavenly odors.
From Sweetapple Cove by George Van Schaick
Their presence may be recognised, especially in the knee, by the crepitating sensation imparted to the fingers of the hand grasping the joint while it is flexed and extended by the patient.
From Manual of Surgery Volume First: General Surgery. Sixth Edition. by Alexis Thomson
People do not mince along the banks of streams in patent-leather shoes or crepitating silks.
From Little Rivers; a book of essays in profitable idleness by Henry Van Dyke
