"The boss of the Senate" sank down in his chair, crossed one knee over the other and drummed his fingers lightly on the table.

She stood idly drumming on the window-sill for a few moments; then, with a quick little sigh, she went back to the piano.

He held his fork, with a bit of untasted pigeon on it, uplifted in one hand; with the other he drummed nervously on the table.

He had been impatiently drumming his fingers on the door of the cab.

The Boy was beginning to be bored and to drum softly with his fingers.)

He sat drumming a heavy tattoo on the tabletop, forehead corrugated in a frown of intensive thought.

" Mr. Howard thoughtfully drummed on his desk for a little while.

We heard grouse drumming loudly, in two or three different localities and saw one bird make a long dive from one pine tree to another.

[Footnote 27: Literally, "the broken drum," from tlapana, to break, as they say tlapanhuimetzli, half moon.

In Paris, he had been compelled to submit to hydrotherapic treatments for his trembling fingers, frightful pains, neuralgic strokes which cut his face in two, drummed maddeningly against his temples, pricked his eyelids agonizingly and induced a nausea which could be dispelled only by lying flat on his back in the dark.

D'ye take me, my lord?'the while he drummed merrily with his heels on a leg of the table.

Nothing else to do, is there?" Dripping bearers and shrouded chairs received them on the lower floor, carried them out into a chill rain that drummed overhead and splashed along the compound path in silver points.

"I did not dare, however, to call for Miss Lucy at old Pa's, but waited for her at the corner of the street, patiently drumming on my boot, with a knowing little bit of bamboo; and projecting my left arm to her, off we marched in triumph.

" The Minister of Public Works lapsed into meditation and drummed pleasantly with his plump, shining hand on the table beside him.

He laid them on the table between Fullaway and himself, and for a moment or two sat reflectively drumming the tips of his fingers on them.

The rain drummed steadily, and as steadily came the gentle modulations of Kirk's voice, as the tale of "The Tinder-Box" progressed.

Besides which, how could we get along without you for a spokesman, and I marked that you drummed to our dance very tunefully.

Dealer and Stockman drummed their fingers on the table unconcernedly.

The old coal-digger drummed on the fire-plug uneasily.

Then she told Mrs. M'Kree about the disappearance of the lard, and how she had recognized the bucket upon which Jamie had been drumming so vigorously.

But when she had had her lonely lunch and her letters to her uncle and Mirko were written, she found herself drumming aimlessly on the window panes, and wondering if she would go out.

and drum wildly in ye dead of winter with ye aching fingers and ye swain mate will sometimes come to her out of ye cold.

For the sound was more like a light tapping of a little hammer than an actual stepsome hard substance drumming automatically upon the floor, while yet moving in advance.

She drummed carelessly and lightly on the keys of the pianoher thoughts evidently far away.

The precedent of the historic great ladies of Prussia who exchanged their golden wedding rings for rings of iron is drummed into the smaller folk continuously.