Then came a gentle tap at the door, and, at the usual bidding, one entered, closely masked like him who had departed, as was so much the usage of that city in the age of which we write.

It would be still more amusing, next time the subject of her will was recurred to, to give his arm a little tap with her fan, and say, "Oh, that is all settled, months ago."

First, Dave landed a light tap on the already suffering nose.

In this manner I fancied I could distinguish the precise moment when he fairly disengaged the lidalso, that I could determine when he removed it altogether, and when he deposited it upon the lower berth in his room; this latter point I knew, for example, by certain slight taps which the lid made in striking against the wooden edges of the berth, as he endeavored to lay it down very gentlythere being no room for it on the floor.

Thus a smart tap on the tongue may excite the sensation of taste.

There was always the sharp tap, tap of the drill, the noise of the sledge falling heavily on the huge lumps of coal, sometimes a sudden rush of air against one's face, followed by a dull report and crash that told of the firing of a blast, and now and then a miner's laborer would come running a loaded car down to the heading or go pushing an empty one back up the chamber.

His mother was superstitious afore 'im, and always knew when 'er friends died by hearing three loud taps on the wall.

The baker's wife went up to him, and gave him a friendly tap on the shoulder, "What are you thinking about?" said she.

Some voice that knows Whither the dead man goes: We hear his music from the other side, Maybe a little tapping on the door, A something called, a something sighed No more.

Her voice answered his gentle tapping, "Who's there?" "Me.

He was aroused from gloomy musings by a discreet tap announcing the return of the scouting party.

" "So you are, and a very charming one," rejoined he, giving her a playful tap on the cheek as he spoke.

In the fitful, smoke-enshrouded glow of that lamp he would catch fleeting glimpses of clumsy figures and spooklike faces bending over huge round objects, while at the same time, if the windows were open, he would hear much mysterious tapping and knocking.

The last cadences of sound, the last quiver in the air, when the ringer had ceased to ring and the hammer struck the bell no more, lingered still, as a timid and uncertain tapping fell upon the door.

The steady tapping was a woodpecker at work upon an old tree.

And, in the midst of it all, stood Anthea, a desolate figure, Bellew thought, who, upon his entrance, bent her head to draw on her driving gloves, for she was waiting for the dog-cart which was to bear her, and Small Porges to Cranbrook, far away from the hollow tap of the auctioneer's hammer.

There was a strong smell of paraffin oil in the room; and from somewhere at the far end came a faint tap, tapping sound, which might be the light knocking of a window-blind or the rap of a signalling finger.

CHAPTER XIII OBED LEARNS SOMETHING "There's something brooding," Obed whispered the first thing; and then continued by saying: "What are those queer little taps, Max?

He had heard Mr. Van Torp say that he would give five thousand dollars to have Madame sing at his wedding.' Margaret did not shake her head this time, nor try to speak, but Alphonsine heard the little impatient tap of her slipper on the wooden floor.

There was no response but a sharp tapping on the hob, as Greatorex knocked the ashes out of his pipe.

The sounds of pursuit died away in the distance, and he had already dropped into a walk when the hurried tap of the wooden leg sounded from one corner and a chorus of hurried voices from the other.

In one of the dwellings of the Claverias you could hear the incessant tap, tap, of a hammer; it was that of a shoemaker whom Gabriel had seen through the window-panes, bending over his bench.

I shall shun people who love me," and with that she struck the horse a lively tap and soon was far ahead of her tongue-tied wooer.

It was the measured tap!

All the amateur work that he had done was the merest tapping and flapping when compared to those frightful blows, from arms toughened by the shovel and the crowbar.