One day, a few weeks later, I stopped before a store window in a crowd to examine some pictures, satisfied my curiosity, and in stepping back to go away, put the heel of my number ten on a lady's foot with that peculiar "craunch" that you know hurts. From Wordnik.com. [Danger Signals Remarkable, Exciting and Unique Examples of the Bravery, Daring and Stoicism in the Midst of Danger of Train Dispatchers and Railroad Engineers] Reference
Now they craunch it, and crowd snuffling along through the corn-hills!. From Wordnik.com. [Summerfield or, Life on a Farm] Reference
But you are not to craunch up a Frenchman; remember that!. From Wordnik.com. [Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern — Volume 3] Reference
Indeed, not a sound was to be heard, except the creak and craunch of the dry snow under our feet. From Wordnik.com. [Hugh Wynne, Free Quaker] Reference
Strange to say -- strange, yet true, and owning many parallels in life's experience -- that anticipatory craunch proved all -- yes -- nearly. From Wordnik.com. [Villette] Reference
As they stood there, Mr. B — — 's garden door, just round the corner, was heard to open and slam, and craunch, craunch, came his stately pace upon the gravel. From Wordnik.com. [Memoirs of Arthur Hamilton, B. A. Of Trinity College, Cambridge Extracted From His Letters And Diaries, With Reminiscences Of His Conversation By His Friend Christopher Carr Of The Same College] Reference
She would craunch the wing of a lark, bones and all, between her teeth, although it were nine times as large as that of a full – grown turkey; and put a bit of bread into her mouth as big as two twelve – penny loaves. From Wordnik.com. [Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World] Reference
Too feeble to resist, she felt herself drawn by a mysterious power to the depths below, wherein she fancied that she saw some monster belching its venom, a monster whose magnetic eyes were charming her, whose open jaws appeared to craunch their prey before they seized it. From Wordnik.com. [Seraphita] Reference
As they stood there, Mr. B ” ” 's garden door, just round the corner, was heard to open and slam, and craunch, craunch, came his stately pace upon the gravel. From Wordnik.com. [Memoirs of Arthur Hamilton B A Of Trinity College Cambridge]
Merman’s wife, who was beautiful of form and favour and with her two children, each having in his hand a young fish, which he craunched as a man would craunch a cucumber. From Wordnik.com. [The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night] Reference
Dogs craunch bones. From Wordnik.com. [The Standard Speller; Containing Exercises for Oral Spelling; also, Sentences for Silent Spelling by Writing from Dictation. In Which the Representative Words and the Anomalous Words of the English Language are so Classified as to Indicate Their Pronunciation, and to be Fixed in the Memory by Association.] Reference
CRANCH, craunch. From Wordnik.com. [Every Man in His Humor] Reference
"Boomp -- craunch!". From Wordnik.com. [Menhardoc] Reference
Aunt, craunch, daunt, draught, flaunt, gaunt, haunch, haunt, jaunt, laugh, launch, staunch, taunt, vaunt. From Wordnik.com. [The Standard Speller; Containing Exercises for Oral Spelling; also, Sentences for Silent Spelling by Writing from Dictation. In Which the Representative Words and the Anomalous Words of the English Language are so Classified as to Indicate Their Pronunciation, and to be Fixed in the Memory by Association.] Reference
“In the studios we say croquer, craunch, nibble, for sketching,” interposed Mistigris, with an insinuating air. From Wordnik.com. [A Start in Life] Reference
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