pitapat

Example Sentences

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In a moment there was a curious tearing sound, and then a pitapat on the ground about them.

From Under Fire For Servia by Fiske, Colonel James

Anything like the sound of a rat Makes my heart go pitapat!

From The Land of Song, Book II For lower grammar grades by Various

And their hearts go pitapat When they hear the soldiers come With a r-r-rat-tat-tat And a tum-titty-um-tum-tum!

From Love-Songs of Childhood by Field, Eugene

And though Widow Precious felt her heart go pitapat at first sight of another Mrs. Mordacks, she made up her mind, with a gulp, not to let this cash go to the Thornwick.

From Mary Anerley : a Yorkshire Tale by Blackmore, R. D. (Richard Doddridge)

And while she gazed her heart went pitapat.

From Ulysses by Joyce, James