" Mrs. Pendomer's foot tapped the floor whilst he spoke.

But, this time, after a moment's consideration, he tapped his forehead and added, in a tone of supreme relief: "No, the sitting does not take place before to-morrowand I am forgetting that I have to go to the railway station to get the consignment of which I was advised this morning.

" Mademoiselle frowned and tapped an angry foot on the floor.

The large woodpecker taps a hollow tree close by, his gorgeous plumage glistening like a mimic rainbow in the sun.

But strangely enough she did not think of this phase: and even when her father the next morning approached her in the hall and tapping her arm whispered: "Good girl!

If any of the children did not pay attention, Mary would lean forward and tap his head with the tamborine.

" He tapped his snuff box thoughtfully.

And insteadI found you!" He tapped the table with his fingers, restlessly.

One thing was certain; they did not announce to each other their business, but looked at their watches and tapped their boots, and knitted their brows as if each one of them had come on very particular business, which had nothing to do with the affairs of the general crowd.

And after you had punctured him you had no chance to send home the finishing shot?" Donnegan merely watched the colonel and tapped his bony finger against the point of his chin.

He tapped his deerskin-covered chest.

His grey countenance was hard and thoughtful as he passed slowly along tapping the ground before him, for he was thinkingever thinkingof the declaration of his French visitor.

Abe," he tapped the old man's knee again, "dew yew know what yew need?

Sweetwater took out his ten; pointed to the snuggery, and tapped his breast-pocket.

So did the third visitor, Fawcett, the horse-breaker, who leaned back, his long, thin legs, with their boxcloth riding-gaiters, thrust out in front of him, tapping his protruding teeth with his riding-whip, with anxious thought in every line of his rugged, bony face.

"Well, look at this," said Godfrey, and tapped the letter again.

In my pocket here," he tapped the breast of his coat, "are instructions I shall read to you before we leave.

"You've lost some of your roses," he said, and tapped his cheek.

The cliff was honey-combed with a labyrinth of subterranean passages which found vent in an opening midway between the pit and where the trench tapped the wall.

Mrs. Scogin Bevins threw out her hands to Mrs. Burkhardt in a wide gesture, indicating her mother with a forefinger, then with it tapping her own brow.

Now and then one or another of the blind keepers of the camp will come across to where you sit gossiping, tapping her way among the kitchen middens, guided by your voice that carries far in the clearness and stillness of mesa afternoons.

We were facing a stout door: a door that without doubt had been constructed for purposes of defence, and upon the centre of this our guide tapped softlythree times.

I do not wish to kill thee like a slave, That taps men in their cups, and broach[es] their hearts, Ere with a warning-piece they have wak'd their ears; I would not like to powder shoot thee down To a flat grave, ere thou hast thought to frown: I am no coward, but in manly terms

Beneath the tower, to the right hand, a double-tracked branch tapped a fertile country beyond the sand hills.

General Rochambeau tapped his snuffbox meditatively, like a man in two minds.