“Crack” carries many different meanings in this work. As I scan for food words past the thrush chapter, I can’t resist adding this sound word to our concordance. Remember to separate sound-meanings of the words from crevice-meanings in your work. I apologize – I seem to have been behyphenated.
- 01.064 Chip the glasses and crack the plates!
- 01.123 and cracking
- 04.002 and the crack of stone.
- 04.014 He dreamed that a crack
- 04.015 A crack had opened at the back of the cave,
- 04.016 and carried through the crack,
- 04.017 The crack closed with a snap,
- 04.019 Clap! Snap! the black crack!
- 04.021 Swish, smack! Whip crack!
- 04.023 and cracked their whips behind.
- 05.129 he only just missed cracking his skull
- 05.146 through the crack.
- 06.022 which was only open a crack,
- 06.028 he had nipped inside the crack,
- 06.040 in a fearful confusion of slipping, rattling, cracking slabs
- 06.052 like old gentlemen gone cracked
- 06.078 till hair smells and skins crack,
- 06.079 the lower branches cracked.
- 07.067 a crack at the back of the cave opened;
- 07.075 – and slipped inside the crack
- 11.014 like a dark crack
- 11.030 At that very moment he heard a sharp crack
- 11.030 Crack!
- 11.030 Crack!
- 11.030 Crack!
- 11.032 There was a loud crack.
- 11.038 Long straight cracks appeared
- 12.029 in through the crack they had left
- 12.031 until dawn came pale through the crack of the door.
- 12.101 the walls cracked
[…] Chip the glasses and crack the plates! Blunt the knives and bend the forks! That’s what Bilbo Baggins hates– […]
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