The contact was hard, but the ice would not crack.
He felt rather than heard the ice cracking beneath his weight.
She examined me a moment, and I had the sense the ice was cracking.
The ice between the men cracked and conversation began to flow.
They say you could hear the ice cracking all the way up the vineyards.
The ice was cracking, roaring, as it came down upon him.
It was like being on a pond in winter: I could hear the ice cracking.
It's like ice cracking around our feet on a frozen pond.
Beneath her feet the ice cracked and the snow slid.
Suddenly, the ice of the pond cracked with a sound like breaking glass.