I hear a rap-a-tap, who can be coming at this hour of the night?

Then he put all the pieces in, put on the cover of it, gave something a few taps with a tiny hammer, replaced the screws, and said "Shall I come and put it on for you, sir?" "No, no; I am up to that much," said Mr Macmichael.

Endo saw that he had no choice but to obey or affect obedience, and, turning the tap that let out the gas by a pipe passing through the car, sent his vessel rapidly downward, as with a formal salute he affected to accept the command of his Prince.

All was very still, but I could hear the tapping of a hammer farther down the street, and walked to see what was doing, for we had no trades in Moonfleet save that of fishing.

Three times the file of soldiers fired a volley over the grave, then the muffled drum sounded its farewell taps, and the officers, with their men and the funeral caisson, returned to their quarters in silent order.

No sooner had release from studies sounded through big and handsome Bancroft Hall, than there came a tap at Dave Darrin's door.

Mrs. Gillespie said she felt taps, but declared that, to the best of her knowledge, she still felt the Medium's two hands upon her arm.

Upon this I made an effort to get up in order to put my threat into execution, but the ruffian just reached across the table very deliberately, and hitting me a tap on the forehead with the neck of one of the long bottles, knocked me back into the armchair from which I had half arisen.

(Mr. Furness afterwards produced taps precisely similar by rubbing the side of his finger slowly along the side of the slate.)

Come in," he added, answering a tap at the door.

Take the ripest and largest kentish cherries you can get, bruise them very well, stones and stalks altogether, put them into a tub, having a tap to it, let them stand fourteen days, then pull out the tap, let the juice run from them and put it into a barrel, let it work three or four days, then stop it up close three or four weeks and bottle it off.

James stooped to open the tap, and I popped the new ball in unobtrusively.

He resumed his tapping.

I also found a tap of good drinking water in the main street and here we refilled all available water bottles, including those of several men who were too fast asleep to waken.

There was nae road here then; it gaed straight ower the tap o' the hill.

He got two or three taps in the next round which made his 'ead ring, and then he got 'ome on the mark and follered it up by a left-'anded punch on Bill's jaw that surprised 'em bothBill because he didn't think Ginger could hit so 'ard, and Ginger because 'e didn't think that prize-fighters 'ad any feelings.

It was strange for one, passing along that deserted street at midnight, to hear issuing from the black shop of Boaz Negro the rhythmical tap-tap-tap of hammer on wooden peg.

By and by he heard steps in the passage behind the partition and thought he knew the tap of high-heeled shoes.

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

I was not anxious for an encounter; I much preferred to wait for a disclosure of the purpose that lay behind this mysterious tapping upon walls on my grandfather’s estate.

Next that comes will be the shaps of my twosI mean the taps of my shoes!"

They were a nation of warriors almost as much as the Spartans, and stood ready on the instant to obey the tap of the drum calling to arms.

" "But you ought" "Tap! tap!"

When the young man is ready to "propose" to the girl he has bartered his sister for, he walks up to her equipped as for warready to parry her "love-taps" if she feels inclined that way.

Talbot, content for the time with this petty success, sent for a chaplain to come and say mass; and, whilst waiting for an opportunity to resume the fight, he permitted the tapping of some casks of wine which had been found in the abbey, and his men set themselves to drinking.