66 adverbs to describe how to tap

He passed down the line like a general reviewing his troops, tapping lightly with a cane various arms and legs which were not in position.

She tapped her foot on the floor impatiently, and compressed her lips.

The General's finger-ends, softly tapping the desk, had the sound of far-away drums.

"Doctor," demanded Marston, fixing his eye upon him sternly, and significantly tapping his own forehead, "can you stay execution?"

But when he tapped the face of the picture smartly with a finger-nail, he gave a slight start, passed a hand over it with the palm pressed flat, and suddenly assumed the humanly intelligent expression of a hunting-dog that has hit on a warm scent.

He tapped me playfully on the helmet with his riding crop.

The headmaster tapped nervously with his foot on the floor.

After another hasty look up and down the street she tapped sharply on the door in a peculiar way.

Dupont, the road to Paris, seemed figments of some dream dreamed long ago... The tip of a pretty slipper, tapping restlessly, continued to betray Liane's temper.

Marlow, charming as ever, was tapping steadily at her typewriter: Fullaway, himself a large cigar in his mouth, was reading the American newspapers, just arrived, in his own sanctum.

[MANSON has tapped his ear, peremptorily: he fixes his ear-trumpet.

From beneath her skirt the toe of a small white shoe tapped the deck angrily.

The signaler could hear the other end calling him and he promptly tapped off the answering signal and spoke into his instrument.

He tapped loudly on the counter with a halfpenny.

He cast a stern eye upon the picture and gravely tapped his chin.

"It's only a murmur now," I said when I reached the consulting-room, "only a mere whisper, but" The doctor tapped me vigorously.

He had opened his note-book, and was tapping his teeth reflectively with his pencil as he eyed the horses.

She idly tapped the knuckles of her gloved hand with the small envelope.

Then he tapped it meditatively on the table.

"Well, well," said the other, tapping the table irritably.

" Then the blind man blessed Beltane, and turning, forthwith set out upon his way, and his staff tapped loud upon the forest-road.

I felt uneasy, some way; and I stood outside the door there listening; but I couldn't hear nothing; and then I tapped, but there wasn't no answer; so I tapped louder, with my heart somehow working right up into my mouth.

And I tapped the breast of my coat, meaningly.

The Red Cross surgeon to whom the American went for information dismissed the matter casually by merely tapping his forehead with his index finger.

"Let us take breath," Canim said, when they had tapped midway the bed of the main creek.

66 adverbs to describe how to  tap  - Adverbs for  tap