There went that sullen Sidonia, tottering and trembling like palsy incarnate, tapping her ivory staff on the mosaic parquet, and muttering venomously as she vanished.
Let us go to bed again, my old friend," he said, tapping him on the shoulder with Tarasconese familiarity.
Kaufmann, tapping him on the shoulder; to which Tartarin answered with his fine laugh: "You rogue!
She too was nervous, tappingthe table and creaking her chair.
This remark, or hint, or inquiry, was directed squarely at Ester, and received no other answer than a shrug of the shoulder and an impatient tapping of her heels on the bare floor.
She leaned against the door, tapping her fingers in a very softly, but very nervous manner against the glass.
As Julian Marbolt passed out the men kept silence, and even when the distant tapping of his stick had died away.
Now they heard a door open, and the tapping ceased.
It was irregular, intermittent, like the tapping of a telegraph-sounder working very slowly.
The other remained quite still except for those moving fingers tapping their way nearer and nearer the lamp.
David sat for a moment thoughtfully tapping the desk with his eyeglasses, and then said with his characteristic chuckle: "I had a letter f'm Chet Timson yestidy.
H'm," said the general, tapping the desk with his eyeglasses.
Being very intent on tapping the mud, they allowed me to approach within 10 paces, so that I could see them very distinctly.
They are here," added the Count, tapping his forehead significantly.
Mrs. Leo Hunter, playfully tapping the editor's arm with her fan (Minerva with a fan!
A gentle tapping somewhere, and following the sound it seemed to come from the inside of the long case in which the skeleton lived when not professionally engaged.
One morning, in the month of October, there was a tapping with the knuckles at the cottage door.
He is rather too clever," said she, tapping her squire on the cheek.
It was nearly three feet from the utmost extension of the psychic's hands, and yet, almost immediately, tapping came upon the cone keeping time to our singing.
At last a tapping came upon the slate, and she brightened up.
I asked him if he would write, and he answered by tapping that he would try.
That's what I thought at the time, but I helped her out, and a moment later a decided tapping on the top of the table announced the completion of the task.
I saw myself establishing, at the least, the most beautiful case of mind-tapping on record.
At last she sank into profound sleep, and at exactly twelve o'clock I heard a faint tapping on top of the piano, just behind Miller.
He rises round and round the dead branch in the elm, tappingit with blows that succeed each other with marvellous rapidity.
Yet there were sometimes strange acoustical effects--as when there came a low tappingat the shutters, enough to make your heart stand still.
As I continued to advance, though I could still see nothing, I noticed that the tappinggrew louder every moment.
It was like a light tapping on hollow wood, and it regularly followed each cry.
There are the falling of dead twigs, the rustle of leaves under the footsteps of some small shy creature in fur, the dropping of nuts, and the tapping of woodpeckers.
He thumped the top of the contents with his knuckles, and then tapping the lower hoops they glided down and the staves fell apart, leaving a black block standing upon the table.
Well, he ought to bear that," said Roy, giving the door a good rattle, and then tapping loudly.
At this juncture, shuffling is heard in the hall, and tapping is heard at the dining-room door.
Fledgeby again made his small eyes smaller, as he glanced with great complacency at Twemlow, who was timorously tapping the table with a folded letter.
I don't want to speak of them here,' replied Bella, suppressing indignation, and tapping her foot on the floor.
He had heard from Bella's own lips when he stood tapping at the door on that night of his taking the lodgings, that the marriage would have been on her part thoroughly mercenary.
Get on,' rejoined Eugene, tapping his palsied head with the fire-shovel, as it sank on his breast.
It was the distant and sonorous tapping of a woodpecker upon the trunk of a dead tree--a sound often heard in the depths of an American forest.
Tis some visitor," I muttered, "Tapping at my chamber door Only this, and nothing more.
The tapping of a ka can be heard at surprising distances; and experienced players often play for hours at a time without exhibiting wearisomeness, or in the least diminishing the volume of sound produced.
He made two trips out to the Pacific Coast in connection with the Chappy Morgan wire-tapping cases.
And this tapping seemed to him to be the tiny fingers of the child, feebly endeavouring to attract his attention.
He could see nothing from the window, but occasionally he heard the dry tapping of twigs upon the glass, as the train crept among the leafless woods.
