crick-crack

There are some narrow belts of bush that run out from the river into the plain, and as we neared one of these, crick-crack, crick-crack, the familiar croaking voices of Mausers warned us against a nearer approach.

With Rimington L. March Phillipps

"Why don't you turn your head?" cried the mother, seizing the said member between her two hands and giving it an energetic twist that dislocated a bone or snapped a tendon, one might have surmised from the sharp crick-crack which accompanied the movement.

Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 12, No. 33, December, 1873 Various

It was not till their driver, who had turned out of the beaten track into a wayside drift to make room for another vehicle, attempted to regain the road by too abrupt a movement, and the shafts of their sledge responded with a loud crick-crack, that Colonel Kenton perceived the error into which he had suffered himself to be led.

A Fearful Responsibility and Other Stories William Dean Howells 1878

Slowly unfolding, it laid itself down on the carpet, as flat as if it had been ironed; the split joined with a little sharp crick-crack, and the rim turned up all round till it was breast-high; for meantime the cloak had grown and grown, and become quite large enough for one person to sit in it as comfortable as if in a boat.

The Little Lame Prince Dinah Maria Craik 1874

And the two lads stood for some moments gazing into each other's eyes, till the blue-veined lids dropped slowly over Distin's, and without word or further look, he took his cigarette case out of his pocket, walked deliberately out of the study, and through the porch on to the gravel drive, where, directly after, they heard the sharp _crick-crack_ of a match.

The Weathercock Being the Adventures of a Boy with a Bias George Manville Fenn 1870

There was a sharp _crick-crack_, and the stair was as solid as before, and the broad stain from the painted window lay in its old place on the dark brown wood.

Crown and Sceptre A West Country Story George Manville Fenn 1870

The baluster was twisted; there was the familiar _crick-crack_; the loose step was thrust back, and the boys stood looking into the long box-like opening.

Crown and Sceptre A West Country Story George Manville Fenn 1870

It was out now, out with a burning blush over all the lad's honest face, and the sudden crick-crack of a pretty Indian paper-cutter he unfortunately was twiddling in his fingers.

The Laurel Bush Dinah Maria Mulock Craik 1856

Slowly unfolding, it laid itself down on the carpet, as flat as if it had been ironed; the split joined with a little sharp crick-crack, and the rim turned up all round till it was breast-high; for the meantime the cloak had grown and grown, and become quite large enough for one person to sit in it, as comfortable as if in a boat.

The Little Lame Prince Rewritten for Young Readers by Margaret Waters Dinah Maria Mulock Craik 1856

Slowly unfolding, it laid itself down on the carpet, as flat as if it had been ironed; the split joined with a little sharp crick-crack, and the rim turned up all round till it was breast-high; for meantime the cloak had grown and grown, and become quite large enough for one person to sit in it as comfortable as if in a boat.

The Little Lame Prince Dinah Maria Mulock Craik 1856