Then I seemed to know of a pattering about me.

Then came a little pattering of feet on the stairs.

Just then there came the pattering of big feet down the passage to the room they were in.

But when the pattering on the roof began, he laid the book down.

Now there was a fresh pattering against the hull of the ship.

He had caught a whisper of sound, a faint pattering.

Then there suddenly came the pattering of quick feet, and something flung itself on Block.

After a while he was aware of the pattering of feet.

Claire said quietly, her words almost lost in the pattering of the rain.

It was so quiet you could hear the pattering drops back in the timber.

The rain had lost its force, had become a pattering.

Not an owl or the pattering of some little animal's feet - but another sound, a bigger one.

She came pattering down after me and laid hold of my draperies.

Above all the others I could hear her heart pattering away as she extended her hand toward him.

Nothing but the pattering, and, simultaneously, the sound of a man walking on tiptoe.

It was all very quiet, apart from the restless pattering of the rain.

It was very dark now, and a faint pattering outside told me that the threatened rain had come.

She could hear Jacel's heavy breathing, and then something else, a light pattering.

There was no sound except for the pattering of the rain on the thin metal roof.

And then, like the edge of a storm racing across the plain, they heard a pattering sound.

Then an unexpected gap in the talk brought silence, broken by the pattering of rain.

The pattering of pig's trotters died away in the distance.

A soft pattering followed which I took to be matches falling around the receiver.

Then a pattering of loose stones and dirt rained down.

He'd just opened out his easel to start work on a new design when he was aware of a distant pattering.

You can hear their little feet pattering on the grass.

Their feet pattered away down the platform, and soon they were gone.

The rain was coming down hard now, pattering against the leaves.

He had heard the dogs pattering around below him, five days ago.

The little boy pattered along beside me, looking up and smiling.

He pattered through the dark to the cell door and waited.

So many little feet were pattering that the theater was shaking.

He listened closely and heard the sound of her feet pattering away.

A shower of small objects pattered down on the street.

He jumped from the swing table and pattered to the door.

He pattered down the steps and fell to his knees by her side.

Just then they heard a sound as of footsteps pattering along the path behind them and all three turned to see what was coming.

Fragments of ice pattered down on the snow all around them.

It was a gray day, and light rain pattered against the windows.

The dog pattered around him, anxious and wanting to help.

More gunfire came from the ridge of the hill, pattering around them.

"Of course," she said, and pattered away toward the stairs.

Nothing happened, except that several more drops of rain pattered down around him.

The old guard pattered hastily away to report to his master.

In one, women pattered about holding hands in a line.

Pattering native music came on thinly, from the country club nearby.

His too small feet almost pattered as he ran.

Things pattered onto the roof of the police station and bounced down into the street.

That moment, a chilly fall of rain pattered over his shoulders.

Around us something pattered like a fall of rain.

I could hear the patter of little feet behind me.

Even his old patter began to come back to him.

I believe you've got the face for the job, if you can get the patter.

So keep up the patter and lead them to it.

You gave him a line of patter that's going to work with what he does.

She heard the patter of feet and looked round quickly.

A little light patter while she looks for the file.

Was there a time when you started writing out the patter of your stage act?

Rain was beginning to patter the ground, and they had work to do.

All I could hear was the patter of stones to my right and left.

I went to sleep with the patter of the rain.

But the patter of light footsteps came from behind him.

In my patter that is the way I make the girl disappear.

He could hear a soft patter against the window glass.

Patter - The dialogue used in the performance of an effect.

Between playing their games, the two men keep up a constant patter.

She began to patter her fingers along the wood again.

The air, except for the patter of the rain, was absolutely still.

Then the patter of flying feet died away in silence.

He couldn't hear the patter of it on the window.

He stopped, looking up at the sky, and let the rain patter against his open eyes.

The client will break old patters and change their attitude.

Sandy's patter came to a close, and he continued down the hall.

He looked out into the rain, listening to its patter on the glass.

Perhaps it would be better if he had his full sleep out, as she'd been suggesting to him in her patter.