patterings

Clouds had swallowed the setting sun, but this was no real storm—a few patterings in the dust and already the clouds were moving on to some other, more grateful place.

Geography of the Heart Fention Johnson 1996

Clouds had swallowed the setting sun, but this was no real storm—a few patterings in the dust and already the clouds were moving on to some other, more grateful place.

Geography of the Heart Fention Johnson 1996

Clouds had swallowed the setting sun, but this was no real storm—a few patterings in the dust and already the clouds were moving on to some other, more grateful place.

Geography of the Heart Fention Johnson 1996

Clouds had swallowed the setting sun, but this was no real storm—a few patterings in the dust and already the clouds were moving on to some other, more grateful place.

Geography of the Heart Fention Johnson 1996

Out in the darkness there went soft whistlings, callings, croakings, patterings, once a scream which cut off in a gurgle, the sounds of a foreign wilderness.

Agent Of The Terran Empire Anderson, Poul, 1926- 1965

I drew up off the road a little under some trees and turned off the headlights; the rain dripping off the branches made little patterings upon the roof.

The Rainbow and the Rose Shute, Nevil, 1899-1960 1958

And the patterings of the feet in that short walk had worn the board into hollows at the treads.

Sixteen Months in Four German Prisons Wesel, Sennelager, Klingelputz, Ruhleben Frederick Arthur Ambrose Talbot

And now their ears were assailed by soft patterings and shufflings that seemed to increase in number as they progressed.

Army Boys on German Soil Our Doughboys Quelling the Mobs Homer Randall

There were no women anywhere; but if Sonny Sahib had possessed the ears or the eyes of the country, he might have heard many swishings and patterings and whisperings behind curtained doors, and have seen many fingers on the curtains 'edge and eyes at the barred windows as he went by.

The Story of Sonny Sahib Sara Jeannette Duncan

Character is not made by tremendous thumps, but by the constant patterings of minutest touches.

Once Aboard the Lugger 1925