cricking

Each one could recall the times we would slump in on our visits, and Cheryl would listen, then relate some seemingly unrelated tale of the crickets telling the temperature by the speed of their cricking, or the huckleberry branches growing through the undergrowth to reach that spot of light in the dark woods.

No One Thought 2009

Cricket bi racket making noise whole evening cricket cricking with possesses their might cricket dull-wittedness and the strange roar cricket causes me long … Sound

Wind Chimes 2004

Crickets crackling through the night crickets cricking with all their might crickets

Wind Chimes 2004

Cricket bi racket making noise whole evening cricket cricking with possesses their might cricket dull-wittedness and the strange roar cricket causes me long … Sound

Wind Chimes 2004

Crickets crackling through the night crickets cricking with all their might crickets

Wind Chimes 2004

Crickets crackling through the night crickets cricking with all their might crickets

Wind Chimes 2002

He could only lie there and listen to the breeze moving the leaves outside and the cricking of the crickets and the small sharp sounds of the house contracting as the night cooled it from the outside in.

Homebody Card, Orson Scott 1998

Pope-Hennessy himself, in his waffling way, implies that we've been idiots, alternately cricking and bowing our necks.

Cleaning the Sistine Ceiling Eliot, Alexander 1987

Their instinct might be trusted: so, no more classical concerts and music-lessons; no more getting Lycidas by heart; no more Bædeker; no more cricking one's neck in the Sistine Chapel: unless the coloured gentleman who leads the band at the Savoy has a natural leaning towards these things you may depend upon it they are noble, pompous, and fraudulent.

Since Cézanne Clive Bell 1922

Down into the depths of gorges he led us, through ferny nooks, and over the sandy stretches at the base of the mighty clefts through which the river flows; and as we rode, he had us leaning back in our saddles, in danger of cricking our necks, to look up at lofty heights above us, until

We of the Never-Never Jeannie Gunn 1915