The upper lobe was crepitant, though infiltrated with carbon into the interlobular cellular tissue. From Wordnik.com. [An Investigation into the Nature of Black Phthisis or Ulceration Induced by Carbonaceous Accumulation in the Lungs of Coal Miners] Reference
On examining the chest with the stethoscope, the crepitant ronchus was heard in the upper part of each lung. From Wordnik.com. [An Investigation into the Nature of Black Phthisis or Ulceration Induced by Carbonaceous Accumulation in the Lungs of Coal Miners] Reference
The middle lobe was crepitant, though soaked with black fluid; several impacted lobules were scattered throughout its substance. From Wordnik.com. [An Investigation into the Nature of Black Phthisis or Ulceration Induced by Carbonaceous Accumulation in the Lungs of Coal Miners] Reference
The crepitant woods of the Deep South were foreboding enough in daylight, the Spanish moss stringing down from the oaks like the disemboweled spirits of ghosts. From Wordnik.com. [Sanctuary] Reference
For the following hour, we pursued this occupation with silent intensity, the quiet of the room broken only by the dry, crepitant rustle of the turning pages, and the occasional muttered complaint from my companion, who periodically avowed that he would “sooner be wrassling a passel of wildcats than wading through all this infernal writing.”. From Wordnik.com. [Nevermore] Reference
(The planets rush together, uttering crepitant cracks) Rien va plus!. From Wordnik.com. [Ulysses] Reference
A huge, leathery bat, suspended upside down in the far corner, cheeped with dry, crepitant sounds of irritation. From Wordnik.com. [Darkness and Dawn] Reference
The swelling is somewhat soft, diffuse, not painful, more or less fluctuating, and after a few days becomes crepitant under the pressure of the hand. From Wordnik.com. [Special Report on Diseases of the Horse] Reference
Towards morning a coolness like dew fell from above, with here and there a dropping twig or nut, or the crepitant awakening and stretching-out of cramped and weary branches. From Wordnik.com. [In the Carquinez Woods] Reference
"The unction of my deep damnation abide with ye, my children, now and forevermore!" he chanted, showering sparks from crepitant finger-tips; and bounded lightly into the elevator. From Wordnik.com. [The Day of Days An Extravaganza] Reference
"It's a puzzle with three sides to it," he thought, as he descended the crepitant stairs, "The Bookshop, the Octagon, and Weintraub's; but that book seems to be the clue to the whole business.". From Wordnik.com. [The Haunted Bookshop] Reference
The smiles went down, under a swift, bitter little cloud, and the hard twist came into her face with the inward pinching she was giving herself; and all at once there crackled out one of her sharp, strange questions; for it was true that she could not do otherwise; everything was sudden and crepitant with her. From Wordnik.com. [Real Folks] Reference
The crepitant râles and tubular murmurs of pneumonia are heard on the sides of the chest if the pneumonia is peripheral, but in pneumonia complicating influenza the inflamed portions are frequently disseminated in islands of variable size and are sometimes deep-seated, in which case the characteristic auscultory symptoms are sometimes wanting. From Wordnik.com. [Special Report on Diseases of the Horse] Reference
With crepitant mast. From Wordnik.com. [The Book of Humorous Verse] Reference
Even the moist breath of the sea beyond had quite evaporated before it crossed the plaza, and now rustled the leaves in the Mission garden with a dry, crepitant sound. From Wordnik.com. [A Protegee of Jack Hamlin's and Other Stories] Reference
Two retorts, nettled, curt, crepitant. From Wordnik.com. [Early Reviews of English Poets] Reference
Frog, Northern Cricket Acris crepitant 94, 108, 119. From Wordnik.com. [The Field Guide to Wildlife Habitats of the Eastern United States] Reference
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