" Half an hour later there was a sharp rap at the door, and Allingford, Oaks, and Acton entered the room.

This song, accompanied with loud raps on the table, was bellowed forth in a dreadfully discordant voice; and very soon all the dogs rushed into the room and began to bark and howl most dismally, which seemed to please the old man greatly, for to him it was a kind of applause.

This young woman mounts a lager-beer cask, and stops the buzz of conversation by bringing her mallet down with a smart rap upon the head of the nearest bald-headed gentleman.

There came a rap at the glass door different from all the raps that had forerun ita fearless, but gentle, dignified, graceful rap; and the General, before he looked round, felt in all his veins that it came from the young Madame.

On arriving, he gave a faint rap, that was responded to by Aunt Rachel, who saluted him with "Oh, yer's come, has yerwipe your feet, child, and come in quick.

And then dull raps on the wall, behind the bed.

Just as he had cut a large slice out of the mutton, there came a tremendous rap at the door.

Little stonesyes, and splinters, through the windows; they come and hit all round, insiderap, rap, rap!"

But just as he expected an answer, a slight rap sounded from the door.

This time he succeeded, but his two previous failures had provoked such a storm of laughter that no man present heard a cautious rap on the door.

The double rap was her husband's, and the glow on her cheek, and the smile of her lips and eyes when he appeared spoke more plainly than ever: "Anywhere with him!"

Mr. Fullerton: Then it was not the regular triple rap?

" The silence was broken by a sound as of heavy boots trying to move softly on the stairs, and a subsequent modest rap at the door.

You may fetch something a nasty rap if you do.

Within, the master's desk is seen, Deep scarred by raps official; The warping floor, the battered seats, The jackknife's carved initial; The charcoal frescoes on its wall; Its door's worn sill, betraying The feet that, creeping slow to school, Went storming out to playing!

A discarded boot stood by his side, and his gray-stockinged foot protruded over the edge of the jetty until a passing waterman gave it a playful rap with his oar.

Marry, 'a did reach out his arm full length while thou stood gaping at him, and, with a pretty rap, tumbled thee over as never have I seen one tumbled before."

would I were hanged, but I looked for a sound rap on the pate, and that made me beforehand to lift up this excuse for a buckler.

The shop was empty when they entered, but a few stout raps on the counter brought a woman, pale-faced but volubly chattering, up a ladder and through a trapdoor in the shop-floor.

" The silence was broken by a sound as of heavy boots trying to move softly on the stairs, and a subsequent modest rap at the door.

This door was provided with a heavy bronze knocker, but strangely enough the newcomers did not avail themselves of its use, but rapped on the wooden panels with their knuckles, giving three successive raps at regular intervals.

" Mr. Cassilis struck his riding-boot a sudden smart rap with his whip; his eyes snapped, and his nostrils dilated, as he glanced down into Bellew's imperturbable face.

He went boldly to the door and gave a timid rap with his knuckle.

There she gave the accustomed rap with the proper intervals.

There was then no remedy, and she was asked to sit down; but had not been there a quarter of an hour when she heard a violent rap at the door, and somebody vehemently run up stairs.