tip-tap

As the tip-tap of her heels drew further and further away, I was seized by an overwhelming instinct to frighten her, to punish her because we were poor, to make her think I was lost.

Kate Morton Ebook Collection Kate Morton 2008

As the tip-tap of her heels drew further and further away, I was seized by an overwhelming instinct to frighten her, to punish her because we were poor, to make her think I was lost.

The House at Riverton Kate Morton 2008

All through the day they stay in that tank o water o theirs; but in the night they climb up out of it - tip-tap tip-tap tip-tap - and the whole ship was crawlin wid em.

The War with the Newts 2006

And as I moved to the door, I would hear the tip-tap of his bast slippers restoring him, up the stairs, to his dream of boots.

The Inn of Tranquillity: Studies and Essays 2004

A guttural sound, and the tip-tap of bast slippers beating the narrow wooden stairs, and he would stand before one without coat, a little bent, in leather apron, with sleeves turned back, blinking — as if awakened from some dream of boots, or like an owl surprised in daylight and annoyed at this interruption.

The Inn of Tranquillity: Studies and Essays 2004

And it was longer than usual, too, before a face peered down, and the tip-tap of the bast slippers began.

The Inn of Tranquillity: Studies and Essays 2004

I find myself standing under the shower water for umpteen minutes, my vision going double till i'm looking nowhere at nothing, my brain frozen on a word or image or something someone said, till maybe the flick of a drop of water, a stray from the main steam, or the tip-tap of mia's claw on the linolium brings me out of the loop my brain was in.

madrigle Diary Entry madrigle 2003

Then, filling the silence, the unbearable chirring and rustling again, the nervous tip-tap shuffle of hard claws on cage floors, the shuddering noise of birds ruffling their feathers for grooming.

Fear Itself Jonathan Nasaw 2003

The shop, too, was different from all other shops in its clean, light smell - the smell of wooden packing-cases, shavings and sawdust - in its quietness and clear daylight, and the tiled floor across which the feet of Miss Lee and Miss Flitter went tip-tap, tip-tap so surely and purposefully, to produce some jug or teapot whose whereabouts they precisely knew.

The Girl In A Swing Adams, Richard, 1920- 1980

Suddenly he woke, or thought he had waked, and yet still heard in the darkness the sound that had disturbed his dream: tip-tap, squeak: the noise was like branches fretting in the wind, twig-fingers scraping wall and window: creak, creak, creak.

The Fellowship of the Ring Tolkien, J. R. R. 1965