His pistol and the man's rifle cracked open on empty almost simultaneously.

The fight had opened at long distance, and the rifles were cracking steadily.

As he came out on the brow of the wall, half a dozen rifles cracked.

Trepp's rifle cracked and he dropped back among the others.

Almost at the same instant, a rifle cracked somewhere above them.

My rifle cracked; the enemy's head fell forward on the step.

As the rifle cracked, the clay bird broke into several pieces.

As though to punctuate his speech with the final period a rifle cracked above them.

He had not gone a dozen steps when a rifle cracked behind him.

A rifle cracked in the bushes and he fell back without a word.