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pattered
1. Ben pattered about on his own sniffing at things
2. I couldn’t stop and knew there was nothing I could do for him as I walked forward with tears in my eyes and a heavy heart as the shrapnel pattered around us like hard peas being poured into a pan
3. The shrapnel flayed the ground and pattered down on us like hailstone only this stuff that dropped from the sky was deadly
4. Bullets sought us out and pattered and rattled behind us as we slid down the wall of the trench into what was comparative safety
5. He looked down, his heart pattered imperceptibly and his chest rose and fell in shallow breaths
6. pattered on the roof, and I looked up every once in a while,
7. Rain pattered steadily on the tent, bringing to mind a camping trip when she was quite young, bunking in a metal-roofed cabin during a wet spell
8. The rain pattered on the roof and he used the sound to help him wash away the notion that this was a losing battle
9. He pattered into the room, reached over the chair and turned on the computer
10. But a gust of wind bowed the poplars, and suddenly the rain fell; it pattered against the green leaves
11. The bullets pattered along the lake, and one even pierced the bark of their little vessel
12. There he showed off at a great rate, and pattered about his duchesses till the snobbery of the creature turned me sick
13. It was going to be settled, he repeated several times, degrading by a strange, anxious whine the sonority of the Spanish language, which he pattered rapidly, like some sort of cringing jargon
14. Seryozha, with radiant eyes and smiles, holding his mother by one hand and his nurse by the other, pattered on the rug with his fat little bare feet
15. Then the drums began to roll, ripping startled shouts from Tide’s crew, and bare feet pattered across planking as the ship’s company rolled out of its hammocks and dashed for its action stations
16. The shrill, melancholy minor of Prissy was raised, From the kitchen below, she heard the rattle of china as Prissy prepared breakfast, but “Jes’ a few mo’ days, ter tote de wee-ry load…” The song grated on Scarlett, its sad implications frightening her, and slipping on a wrapper she pattered out into the hall and to the back stairs and shouted: “Shut up that singing, Prissy!”
17. Pork pattered into the dining room and Scarlett groped her way into the inky small room and sank down on the sofa
18. She slipped off her worn shoe and, barefooted, she pattered swiftly to the bureau, not even feeling her festered toe
19. Captain," she pattered all at once, like peas dropping, speaking Russian confidently, though with a strong German accent, "and no sort of scandal, and his honour came drunk, and it's the whole truth I am telling, Mr
20. "I can't offer you coffee here; but why not spend five minutes with a friend?" Porfiry pattered on, "and you know all these official duties
21. I had dropped, with the joy of her reappearance, back into my chair—feeling then, and then only, a little faint; and she had pattered straight over to me, thrown herself upon my knee, given herself to be held with the flame of the candle full in the wonderful
22. not an echo, for when they halted it pattered on for a little all by itself,
23. The water pattered down on the floor, just catching the edge of the desk and the half-emptied teacup
24. A light rain started to fall, which was miserable in the cold; the Library’s coat was waterproofed, at least, and Jess pulled up the hood to shield his face as the rain pattered harder, and then, without warning, cut loose in a silver flood from above
25. He felt the ivy cling and make a second garment over him; he felt the small flowers bud and open and petal away, and still the rain pattered on his body and on his head
26. The fog came in, the rain pattered down, a white flashing light raised in the waves
27. And the rain pattered relentlessly down, and the streams broke their banks and spread out over the country
28. ‘From India!’ said he as he took it up, ‘Pondicherry postmark! What can this be?’ Opening it hurriedly, out there jumped five little dried orange pips, which pattered down upon his plate
29. ‘I can’t offer you coffee here; but why not spend five minutes with a friend?’ Porfiry pattered on, ‘and you know all these official duties … please don’t mind my running up and down, excuse it, my dear fellow, I am very much afraid of offending you, but exercise is absolutely indispensable for me
30. You see, if that'll please you, I've flown here to announce that I'm not at all against it, since you were set on having my opinion as quickly as possible; and if, indeed," he pattered on, "you want to 'be saved,' as you wrote, beseeching my help in the same letter, I am at your service again
31. The clouds came nearer and nearer, the slanting drops of rain, driven by the wind, pattered on the platform of the car and stained Nekhludoff's overcoat
32. The waves roared with a hollower sound than before, and the rain pattered down on the boards of that crate more loudly and more frequently
33. Willis’ natty boots pattered about Fourteenth Street—at the first crossing, it is Bohemia and the “wise push” we will sup with
