The roar of it came faintly on the wind, like the sound of storm-beaten surf pounding heavily upon a sand bar when the tide is out, except that this roar was continuous, and was full of sharp cracklings and sputterings; and there was also the red line of flame to visualize the sound.
"Lonesome Land"
B. M. Bower
The songs of the wild birds, the humming of insects, all kinds of inexplicable cracklings and creakings, as if unseen things were creeping about.
"The Motor Maids by Palm and Pine"
Katherine Stokes
I heard the roarings and cracklings which filled the air.
"The Master of the World"
Jules Verne