Meanings of crackling twigs in English

Then there was a crash as something went down heavily amidst the crackling twigs.

The sound of rustling leaves and crackling twigs grew fainter, fainter still, died away altogether.

Sometimes from far within the forest would come sounds of rustling branches or crackling twigs.

The animals, smelling it, broke for it, tearing the wagon over sand hummocks and crackling twigs.

They did so just as the crackling twigs startled some dusky shapes that flapped among the trees.

The fireplace was in the middle of the floor, just a great hollowed boulder, heaped with crackling twigs.

Not a word was spoken, nor did any noise of rustling leaves or crackling twigs follow their footsteps.

When the voices ceased there was a faint distant sound of crackling twigs and the echo of talking and laughter.

Zorindru settled his old body onto the ground next to us and began to speak in his crackling twigs voice.

Then he laughed softly, for the crackling twigs told him he had seen a creature of flesh and blood, no ghost.

The trained ear of the hunter had detected the sound of crackling twigs and swishing branches made by some animals in rapid motion.

Following the example of their guide, each one carefully avoided stepping on crackling twigs or dry branches, or rustling against bushes or boughs.

The sound of crackling twigs was quite close, and we waited breathlessly, eying the green curtain through which we expected the unknown to thrust himself.

"It leads above the heads of these dogs and their crackling twigs, straight to where lies the maiden."

"Thin ice there, and crackling twigs!"