Miss Honiton's book contained, as a frontispiece, the first image he had seen of Christabel, a brownish, very early photograph, veiled under a crackling, protective translucent page.

The two old men bent their heads over the crackling pages, oblivious to all around them.

One spell had indeed leapt from the crackling pageS and lodged itself in the dark recesses of his brain.

Heselected one from the pile, opened the stiff crackling pages and gazedbriefly at the beautiful flowing script and the ink drawings thatclosely covered every page on both sides.

Secure behind the crackling pages, he meditated.

Bridget unfolded the crackling pages of the letter with more reverence than she would accord the Magna Carta.

Will turned the crackling pages.

Magrat thumbed hopefully through the crackling, ancient pages.

I was intending to steal from Creosote's treasury, but I had an asthma attack,' said Nijel, still fumbling through the crackling pages.

The Professor peered through his ivory-rimmed pince-nez and painstakingly annotated the crackling yellow pages of an ancient book, the Count of St Germaine's treatise upon the transmutation of base metals and the improvement of diamonds.