She was aroused to her full senses presently by hearing the pattering made by some animal running toward her.
Suddenly they heard a pattering of feet behind them, and, on turning, beheld a crowd of the savages coming through the passage.
The clouds, since noon banked low in the eastern horizon, had swept up across the sky, and already the rain was pattering drearily over the hunched-up shoulders of Kruger Bobs.
From a dozen points above, the rain came pattering down, seeking with unerring instinct that precise spot on each man's back where skin and collar meet.
While pattering to your audience you quietly pass the larger cover over the bottle, raise it, and then put the smaller one over the bottle.
Some conjurers who do talk during their performances are chary of pattering for a whole minute without doing anything; they think that to do this looks as though they were "holding up" the trick.
He wrenched away from Harnden's restraining hands and shook himself under the shower of the optimist's pattering words, as a dog would shake off rain.
I'm saving the other barrel," the voice announced, after Harnden had steered his horse from the gutter into the road; the animal had been frightened by the pattering of shot in the foliage of a tree overhead.
While the Master spake Blew down the mount the dust of pattering feet, White goats and black sheep winding slow their way With many a lingering nibble at the tufts, And wanderings from the path, where water gleamed Or wild figs hung.
Before Captain Plum could recover from the surprise of this whispered announcement the little old man had freed himself and was pattering swiftly through the darkness of the next room.
Captain Plum could hear himpattering quickly over the floor below.
Mrs. Sandford was somewhat triumphant in the justification of her weather wisdom, when they heard, next morning, the sound of the rain pattering down on the veranda without.
The little man started and jerked his rein, and the horse hoofs of the three made a multitudinous faint pattering upon the withered grass as they turned back towards the trail.
Then I could hear a curious pattering upon the door, almost like some one feeling for the handle in the dark, and Pyecraft's familiar grunts.
I was very thankful when at last the loud pattering sound, which had continued for so long, ceased; and, looking forth, I found that it was no longer raining.
He turned in with his crowd of pattering dogs, and proceeded jauntily up the narrow path.
Cuckoo heard the pattering feet of the little army of dogs on the oilcloth of the passage.
It was then that he heard thepattering sound outside.
With the Ana pattering before him, the American started down a steep ramp, the soft soles of his buskins making no sound.
He joined no longer in the psalms; but Dick could hear the beads rattle though his fingers and the prayers a-pattering between his teeth.
The whole operation may be said to have been performed under fire, for small masses of rock kept pattering continually on the dust-covered ground around them, causing cloudlets, like smoke, to spring up wherever they struck.
A few minutes later came a softer tinkle, scurry of pattering feet, then silence.
As she spoke, a slow pattering sound was heard along the passage, and then a scratch at the door.
They had hardly sat down to table, when the rain came pattering down on the roof, and in a quarter of an hour the storm was as violent, and the thunder and lightning as terrific as on the day before.
Then the rain came pattering down, and the wind howled louder than before.
It was so gloomy, with the rain pattering all day on the windows.
One such day Bertha was lying on a sofa while Edward stood at the window, looking at the pattering rain.
How it was that we were none of us hit, seems strange to me, for all the time the bullets were pattering on the wall beyond us.
For the most part he maintained a steady, swinging trot that kept pace with the pattering feet ahead of him and caused the miles rapidly to drop behind.
Through the drone ofpattering drops there came the faint sound of a cough.
This procession passed in almost entire silence, with only a pattering of hoofs that sounded like heavy rain.
It echoed among the hills and over the lakes: there were the tinkling of bells, the pattering of hoofs, the eager, impatient sounds of a herd of cattle glad of morning freedom.
It was curious to see Wen Ho come pattering out of this Northern cave, his yellow, Oriental face and slant eyes peering past the stalactite icicles as though they felt their own incongruity almost with a sort of terror.
She heard Wen Ho's incessant pattering in the kitchen, the crunch and thud of Prosper's shoveling outside.
They may hunt the whole country-side, while the raindrops are pattering round their inactivity.
How it happened that we were none of us hit is strange to me, for all the time the bullets were pattering on the wall beyond us.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "pattering" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
