He sat down, then stood up and gazed at the rolling wave after wave to roar and hiss on the shingle at his feet; then he moved restlessly about, Crunching pebbles beneath his thick boots; finally, making up his mind, he took off his coat, threw it down, and rolled up his shirt-sleeves, with the resolute air of a man about to engage in a fight with an adversary nearly as big as himself.
"Afoot in England"
W.H. Hudson
"Your men, in the other cars-" Doctor Alwyn stammered, as they came to a Crunching stop before the door.
"The Crevice"
William John Burns and Isabel Ostrander
At any rate, as the waves rocked her she gave a jarring, Crunching bump with each pitch of her hull.
"The Boy Aviators' Flight for a Fortune"
Wilbur Lawton