There was a momentary silence, to which, probably, I owe my life; for, during it, I heard a quick patter of many feet, and, turning sharply, saw a troop of the creatures coming toward me, at a run.

After a time she heard a little pattering of feet in the distance, and she hastily dried her eyes to see what was coming.

The night is dark, and evermore The thick drops patter on the pane The wind is weary of the rain, And round the thatches moaneth sore; Dark is the night, and cold the air; And all the trees stand stark and bare, With leaves spread dank and sere below, Slow rotting on the plashy clay, In the God's-acre far away, Where she, O God!

It is a strange harmony, especially when the night is clear and there is a bright moon, and the heavy dew falling makes a pitter-patter on the leaves of the great forest trees.

The rattling of a wagon run out of a shedthe dripping of a bucket drawn up overfullthe patter of doves' feet alighting on a roofSurely it is a farmyardunless it be a mill!

After the preliminary whistle of the ringmaster which ended the other acts and prepared for Joe's new one, the young magician advanced to the platform and gave a little "patter.

She was conscious of a curious powerlessness; it surprised her, and she could not understand why she continued talking, so vain and useless did words seem to heran idle patter.

I'll bet my soul they're in their billets at this moment, MacTavish mugging up some stable-patter out of NAT GOULD, and Blenkinsop imbibing a dose of ship-chatter from 'BARTIMEUS.'

His quickened senses perceive a busy patter of sandalled feet outside his cell, and a whispering of consultation,and then the silvery, snaky tones of Father Johannes, which had that oily, penetrative quality which passes through all substances with such distinctness.

" "Base is the slave who pays, and baser prose Hang uninspired patter!

But a gentle drip-drip had replaced that incessant patter.

A cry to God, no matter what god, silences the patter of the market-place.

It came in the wild March weather With bluster of storm and sleet, And stilled in our home forever The patter of boyish feet.

"Carnehan can't talk their patter, so I've made him my servant.

I have watched the giggling little maids patter up to a two-inch shrine and, flinging a word or two to Buddha, use the rest of their time to gossip.

He did not dare to raise his eyes, but his ears were strained to catch the swift patter of the approaching bare feet.

Even the rain withheld its continuous patter, a dumb, gray film covered the ashes of the hushed hearth.

While obtaining it, clad in her working garb, the patter of hoofs and a clear girlish laughsweet as the carol of a meadow larkcame ringing along the road.

When all is still around, and only the distant shouts of the beaters fall faintly at intervals on the ear, his keen hearing detects the light patter of hoof or paw on the crisp, withered leaves.

He distinguished over his head the patter of quick runnings the whole length of the deck; he heard voices.