Press or grind with a crushing noise.
1 Some crocodile or hippopotamus crawling through the rushes might craunch the babe.
2 But you are not to craunch up a Frenchman; remember that!
3 Now they craunch it, and crowd snuffling along through the corn-hills!
4 Seeing him draw nigh, burying his broad wheels in the oppressed soil-I ,theprostrate votary-feltbeforehand the annihilating craunch .
5 Indeed, not a sound was to be heard, except the creak and craunch of the dry snow under our feet.
6 Every step clinks or craunches in the farrier's yard, you know.
7 Craunch listened with patience and advised with the boy's parents.
8 And then there was growling and craunching , I reckon.
9 After a year, Craunch came up from the country to see how his ward was getting along.
10 Such to me is the Bible, when the pragmatic prophecy-monger and the swinish utilitarian have toothed its fruits and craunched its blossoms.
11 Craunch carried along the portrait of himself that Joshua had made, and asked milord if he didn't want one just like it.
12 He went back to Devonshire, and Craunch , the biggest man in Plympton, took him over to Lord Edgecumbe, the biggest man in Plymouth.
13 'T was a very beautiful picture, although it is not on record that Mr. Craunch was a handsome man.
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