rataplan

The rataplan of rain on the roof was usually soothing.

The brilliant "Rataplan" sounds as though everyone has just had 10 cups of coffee.

He passed the big drum and touched it: ritiplin, rataplan!

Also in the third generation was Rataplan's full brother Stockwell.

The rataplan of rain swelled until he could not even hear the idling car engine.

He was inbred 3x3 to Rataplan, meaning that this horse appears twice in the third generation of his pedigree.

Rataplan and Stockwell were full brothers out of the same dam, Pocahontas.

The only sounds were the rataplan of rain on the roof and the moaning of wind in the eaves.

In wet months, the rataplan of raindrops on the roof had sometimes served as a reliable remedy for insomnia.

Or there would have been... The first large drops of rain made a rataplan on the leaves of the plane trees.

As feared, his leg problems resurfaced in the race and he was pulled up lame, failing to finish the course behind Rataplan.

Beaten with thighbones, the water drum gave out a resonant rataplan which echoed from the mountains invisible across the lake.

Ben Battle was a son of Doncaster Cup winner Rataplan.

"I fly with words," she declares, relishing the pronunciations of "limicolous" and "rataplan."

Ritiplin, rataplan said the big drum, which had not sounded since Sto Odin was let free.

Echo can spell and define words such as rataplan, glunch, oppugn and palinode.

"Yes, sir; at that instant there was such a rataplan of musketry that one might have imagined the infernal regions had opened.

The rataplan of the rain was louder here because there was no drop ceiling and the garage roof was not insulated.

The drums spoke again: ritiplin, ritiplin, rataplan!

Sun-boy danced and the drums talked with him, rataplan, rataplan!

In a brief finale, they agree that they will remain in the room for good, with Bouncer adding a "Rataplan!"

The loud drumming of fear with which he has lived for the past twenty-four hours has subsided to a faint rataplan of less-exhausting anxiety.

The Reiver and Rataplan moved past Sittingbourne on the turn into the straight, with West Australian moving steadily closer.

The large ordinary drum rattled out, when Sun-boy passed it and reached out his fingers: ritiplin, ritiplin, rataplan, ritiplin!

The squall of wings became a storm, more tempestuous by the second, a spiraling rataplan that rapped all the way through her and drummed upon her bones.