He rapped out the question sharply--so sharply that she almost jumped.
He was drinking, and even while Pierce looked on he rapped sharply with his iron hand to call the bartender's attention.
He could hear her stirring inside, so he took a deep breath and rapped softly.
Mr. Kirby rapped sharply upon the table with the steel hook that served as his left hand, then, when a waiter cleared a passageway through the crowd, he mutely invited the house employees to drink.
Verdant was sometimes induced to go in, and never could sufficiently admire the way in which men could be rapped with single-sticks without crying out
When Nicholas heard his daughter's remark from Aunt Hester he had rapped out: "Wives and daughters!
Once again in his cab, his anger evaporated, for so it ever was with his wrath--when he had rapped out, it was gone.
Jimmy Portugal sniggering, June grew crimson, and suddenly rapped out: "Then why did you ever come?
The "spirits," having at last discovered a way of communicating with the living, rapped out all sorts of messages to the sitters.
Peter did not answer when Helen May rapped on his door and said that breakfast would be ready in five minutes.
She waited a minute, listening, and then rapped again and repeated her customary announcement.
Nobody came and he rapped again, and then a third time.
He ran across the common to Mr. Roscoe's house and rapped on the door.
Morgan stopped at the door, drew a pistol from its holster and rapped with the butt end as he had done at the Chartreuse.
But he did not hesitate; he rapped in a peculiar fashion.
She might have hired a cab and driven home, frightened by the storm, and he rapped loudly at the door.
But now the convention was rapped to order, and delegates and audience alike fell into uneasy silence.
Dick's fist rappedhis desk smartly, his lips met in a grim line.
Then he went away, whilst the fire was loosed in the heart of the druggist and he shut his shop and returning to his house, rapped at the door.
FN#407] So they farewelled him and fared their ways, whilst he rapped another light rap at the door.
I returned to the study-door and rapped again, and then grew suddenly much excited: I almost wished I had not summoned her so soon, but already I heard her step upon the carpet, her hand on the latch and the shutters swung apart.
I rapped at the shutters that enclosed the outer door, and waited in a tremor of expectation: there was no response.
I found a white feather on the black wood one day in riding by, and pulling Canello up by the tree, broke off a twig and rapped on the door.
I rappedon its trunk, calling chuck'-ah as much like the old birds as possible.
And then when general curiosity was just about ready to burst wide open like an exploding bomb, Air Marshal Manners stood up, rapped on the table and grinned down into the sea of faces.
Freddy reached forward and rapped him sharply on the shoulder.
Helen rapped for quiet, for the entire room was rocking to and fro over Tom's praise of one of the hoarsest voices ever given to boy or man.
Feet stamped and canes rapped but Tom would do no more than walk on with a dog on each side of him and bow as they barked.
The bath-room, despite its delightful size, and the ivy that rapped outside its window, was not a modern bath-room.
Pavel cast a look at the peephole in the heavy door, and seeing no eye in it, he took a turn or two up and down the room and stopped hard by the wall, upon which he rapped out his reply: "Boulatoff.
Tell Clanya I think of her day and night," he rapped back.
I hesitated, then, plucking up my courage and putting all silly questions behind me, I rapped resoundingly on the door.
I rushed over and rapped resoundingly upon Ludwig's pudgy knee.
Hawkes rapped on the door luckily at that instant.
Bidding the man wait below, Arthur Ferris took the elevator and, darting along the hall, smartly rappedat Randall Clayton's door.
Emboldened by his success, Einstein loudly rapped to replenish his glass.
One rapped on a door, one tapped with a knock, did he knock Paul de Kock with a loud proud knocker with a cock carracarracarra cock.
The Coroner rapped the table impatiently with his knuckles.
With a smile of satisfaction, she tossed back her raven-black ringlets, and passed from the room and through the hall, and rapped at the door of her new acquaintance.
While they were all still seated at the table, a groom rapped at the door and reported the stage-coach ready.
The landlord went before her, rapped at the opposite door, then opened it, announced the visitor, and closed it behind her.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "rapped" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
