crack-crack

Updated: June 7, 2025

I had given him Tommy's "l'il crack-crack" which, with my own, were the only weapons we intended to take I mean the only explosive weapons, for Smilax carried his long, keen-edged hunting knife, a thing he was never without; and I, likewise, strapped on my own.

Credo Fitch Harris - Wings of the Wind

Directly in front of the English trenches were the first-line Turkish trenches, in some places not more than fifteen or twenty feet away, so close, indeed, that when there was fighting they must have fought with revolvers, hand-grenades, shovels, anything they could lay their hands on. At the moment it was quiet but for the constant Crack... crack-crack! of snipers.

Arthur Ruhl - Antwerp to Gallipoli: A Year of the War on Many Fronts—and Behind Them

Then it ceased, and there was a horrible quietness for a few moments, followed by the crack-crack of rifles, and then again the ra-ra-ra-rat-rat-rat-rattle-rattle.... "Machine guns!" he exclaimed. He knew instinctively that they were machine guns. "It ... it startles you, that noise!"

St. John G. (St. John Greer) Ervine - Changing Winds: A Novel