A branch cracked; a silver shape moved in the dark.
After an eternity, another branch cracked, this one a little further off.
The branch would likely crack under your weight now, great girl that you are.
Just then somewhere up the slope a branch cracked, and we both heard it.
The branch of a nearby tree cracked and fell heavily to the earth.
The branch cracked in the heat of the fire.
He said that the sound of branches cracking under my weight was a dead giveaway.
Another branch cracked and gave way in the woods with a sound like distant thunder.
Behind them, back toward Route 5, a branch cracked.
An icy wind whined through the trees, and a branch cracked in the cold.