tappings

This is never done until the trees have been worked one season, but it is then repeated year after year, till on many plantations they present the marks of twenty and frequently thirty annual "tappings," and are often denuded of bark for a distance of thirty feet from the ground.

Among the Pines or, South in Secession Time James R. Gilmore

The tappings seemed to come from everywhere; but we concluded that the concentration necessary on any spot to make an opening large enough for a man's body would inevitably draw our attention to that spot.

CHAPTER XLIX 2010

Early in my confinement I used to hear, at irregular intervals, faint low tappings.

Chapter 5 2010

From farther away I also heard fainter and lower tappings.

Chapter 5 2010

Italian is a jumping language, full of sharp tappings and still, somehow, musical.

Writer Unboxed » Blog Archive » In which Maxine calls on Gabriel Maria Marquez 2009

Margaret and I, followed by Louis, Wada, and the steward, walked about from place to place, wherever the sounds arose of tappings and of cold-chisels against iron.

CHAPTER XLIX 2010

After all, with all the secret wire tappings on the American people ... we had 8 years of living under a tyrrany anyway.

Media shut out from Palin's Hong Kong speech 2009

I heard the tappings of Kelsey's worn heels on the concrete.

Too Old for Their Age 2010

In scenes televised nationwide, rescuers wept as the men were brought out early Monday, eight days after waters flooded the 800-foot-deep shaft and three days after rescuers first heard what they believed were the tappings of miners on pipes.

Mine Workers Rescued a Week Later Shai Oster 2010

In scenes televised nationwide, rescuers wept as the men were brought out early Monday, eight days after waters flooded the 800-foot-deep shaft and three days after rescuers first heard what they believed were the tappings of miners on pipes.

Mine Workers Rescued a Week Later Shai Oster 2010