twig-snapping

Updated: May 11, 2025

At first Wilbur could not understand why she had not sprung into the woods with her prey at the first distant twig-snapping which would betoken his approach.

Francis Rolt-Wheeler - The Boy With the U. S. Foresters

There were strange and dangerous creatures which came sometimes up the river from its inlet into the ocean. Such events had been matters of interest, not to say of anxiety, to Ab's ancestors. The baby lying there among the beech leaves tired, finally, of its cooing and twig-snapping and slept the sleep of dreamless early childhood.

Stanley Waterloo - The Story of Ab: A Tale of the Time of the Cave Man