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    patter


    pattered


    pattering


    patters


    1. chancer with a bit of patter?”


    2. He has to tone his usual patter down a little, and his sincere belief that fathers should never accompany their teenage daughters in public is suitably reinforced


    3. another scream from down the hall, followed by the patter


    4. wedges of cheese to bring back to the others, I could hear the hail had slowed to a light patter


    5. They spoke to the mules in a soft foreign patter and the mules would flick their large ears backwards and forwards as they listened and you could tell by watching them that both mule and muleteer had a real understanding between them


    6. Thunder rumbles and I hear the patter of rain on the ground, but no rain falls


    7. The hard patter of boots echoed throughout the space with each


    8. patter of water on the tarpaulin roof of the truck, he turned


    9. ” he growled, hearing the faint patter of


    10. rain had begun to patter against the glass, causing beads of water

    11. " GCA released his microphone key for an instant in case Court or Donny had a transmission, then continued his patter bringing the plane to the threshold of the runway


    12. clear from his patter that he had misspent his youth in pursuit of easy and ill-gotten


    13. He heard a patter of feet behind him as


    14. But after two days of forced inactivity she had become used to—even to like—the patter lulling her to sleep at night or to nap during the day


    15. Miriam is startled with the terror of being discovered as she hears the pitter patter of sneaky feet in the house just outside her chamber door


    16. And in one particular aisle I fancied that I heard the pitter patter of feet and saw the ends of a little girl's bright blue blouse as she turned a corner


    17. Down the corridor they sped, while the swift patter of flying feet drew closer and closer, and then suddenly Techotl panted: "Here is the stair! After me, quick! Oh, quick!"


    18. He heard the patter of bare feet on the flags behind him as he ran more by feel than by sight, and the walls resounded to the vengeful yells of the pursuers


    19. The air was still and, when there were quiet moments between the bustle of noise made by the police teams, the patter of drops of water falling from the farm buildings and surrounding trees could be heard


    20. It is important, that until you leave our physical existence permanently, and even beyond, your true purpose, your universal purpose at all times, is to learn, grow, acquire knowledge, have new experiences, not cling to a repetitious patter for all of your days

    21. patter while he drove me over to Mr


    22. Ingwe watched the kitten patter back from the furthest corner of the cave, her eyes


    23. Back in the cafe, Wat starts his patter with, ‘My wife phoned me and said she had water in the carburettor


    24. ’ He does his famous patter, ‘I come from mixed parentage, one male, one female


    25. They hid in a side room as the patter of native feet raced by, down the passage


    26. Most animals that die in laboratories never feel grass under there feet, or smell fresh country air, or feel the warmth of sunshine, or the patter of rain


    27. As I close my eyes I hear the patter of rain on the window


    28. waited to hear the patter of his little Klingon feet as he made his exit


    29. In order to prove this point two examples could be cited out when the instructions of the patter had been misplaced and displaced out from their chronological set order


    30. There is the soft patter of rain on the car roof

    31. 'Oh,' gasps Vicki, when we start off up the sombre aisles of pines, and the tretching away before us into a gray infinity, and mark their reeking trunks, black with damp, hoar with lichen, and hear their sighings and their creakings through the patter of rain on our umbrellas, and feel their wet breath on our cheeks, 'oh what an empty, frightening world it is


    32. The muddy roads, the soaked forest, the plaintive patter of the rain, were wiped out of existence between a sleeping and a waking


    33. The talkative driver continued his patter for the next hour


    34. The rain on the kitchen window did not patter more ceaselessly than the footsteps strode up and down, and the groans got very much on to the girl's nerves


    35. Harsh, cruel, forcing the old tree to scratch the window with its long, jagged branch, it shook the windows in their panes and made the ceiling crackle with each patter upon the roof


    36. The door burst open, the patter of small feet followed by a


    37. straight in his memory, but his on-air patter improved remarkably


    38. There might even be the patter of tiny feet, the women being thrilled at the prospect


    39. With the patter of small arms, the warning s-s-t of the rifles,


    40. There was a rush and a patter of feet, the door burst open

    41. There was a patter of footsteps and he appeared in the bathroom


    42. The Indian chief paused another moment to consider the signs of the contest, which was now rolling rapidly up the ascent, a certain evidence that the Delawares triumphed; nor did he actually quit the place until admonished of the proximity of his friends, as well as enemies, by the bullets of the former, which began to patter among the dried leaves on the ground, like the bits of falling hail which precede the bursting of the tempest


    43. Objects patter onto the roof—shell fragments? cinders?—and Marie-Laure says aloud, “You are too high in the house,” and forces herself out from beneath the bed


    44. The only sound is the patter of the rain turning Saint-Malo into mud


    45. At last, raindrops began to patter over the dirt, the Quack, and the body beneath him


    46. We heard her say, 'Mother, there are two men in the house waiting to see you,' and an instant afterwards we heard the patter of feet rushing down the passage


    47. We had hardly closed the thornbush door of our zareba, clasped each other's hands, and thrown ourselves panting upon the ground beside our spring, when we heard a patter of feet and then a gentle, plaintive crying from outside our entrance


    48. She heard the patter of Prissy’s feet as she broke into a trot, and then the sound died


    49. Men guffawed and women snorted knowingly as the comedian concluded his smutty patter with punctuation by a cymbal crash and the better half of a bad song


    50. Pulaski was a detective, too, then, and this must have been part of their patter, their routine




















    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


    1. ” she laughed and the room sparkled with the tinkling of chimes or of a pattering spring shower


    2. “We must go after this Sir no matter what happens because this will precede another counterattack”, he said this I could hear the shrapnel pattering down like hailstone on a tin roof


    3. Droplets could be heard, pattering heavily on


    4. Pattering echoes of footsteps and whispered grumbling emanated from smaller, torch-lit passageways


    5. Even more than their conversation, she missed the shared silence; the long hot days on the patio gazing into the depths of the Wisteria vines while thinking isolated thoughts; Saturday nights in the kitchen, both of them too busy baking cakes for the next day’s Church gathering to utter any word other than the occasional “thank you” or “excuse me”; early mornings with rain pattering on the tin roof, both of them lying in their rooms, knowing the other was awake and they’d soon meet in the sitting room for morning coffee


    6. Morning came, and with it, the first light pattering of rain from the storm that had been moving


    7. Exactly it was happened at that night- who knows that all those pattering rainfall might be the drops of tears of Raj


    8. The heavy rain was pattering as it would be going to swallow the whole earth with its flood water


    9. However, still there was heavy pattering of rainfall, non-stopped, and there was no sight of halt


    10. It was the rule that Lizzie shouldn't come into the room, but, stationary on the other side of this door, her function was to thrust dishes through it; and to her from the kitchen, pattering ceaselessly to and fro, came the tweeny bringing the dishes

    11. He closed his eyes and listened to the sounds around him--leaves rustling in curb-side trees, rain pattering on the windowsill


    12. Cami met Vince at the bottom of the stairs, her heart pattering with excitement as he watched her descend


    13. I told him to go to sleep alone, and here he is, downstairs, getting his death a-cold pattering over that canvas," said Meg, answering the call


    14. And holding the little paper fast, as if it were a promise yet to be fulfilled, Jo laid her head down on a comfortable rag bag, and cried, as if in opposition to the rain pattering on the roof


    15. The troop of bare feet was heard rushing along the hallway and pattering up the


    16. The first newsboy came pattering down the stairs at their heels and rushed out


    17. went pattering along the moist margin of the sea


    18. The pattering and whispering of the rain sounded softly but distinctly outside


    19. He was just going down the new hole when he noticed that some small creature was pattering about in the grass


    20. The slope The place was deserted, except for yellowhammers and a few mice pattering was already in shadow when Campion came running down with the news that he had come face to face with Blackavar and Holly in the upper part of the combe

    21. I was holding his legs while Lord Linchmere was endeavouring to relight the lamp, when there came the pattering of many feet in the passage, and the butler and two footmen, who had been alarmed by the cries, rushed into the room


    22. of her airy, restless, pattering little feet, no one had called her anything else


    23. So she feared to send him home and he remained in Atlanta, a frightened, silent little ghost, pattering about desperately after his mother, fearing to have her skirt out of his hand for even a minute


    24. There was a swift pattering of feet racing up the hall from the kitchen and Melanie burst into the room, her eyes wide with alarm


    25. A pattering of hoofs on the soil of the field, which they had not noticed in their preoccupation, ceased close behind them; and a voice reached her ear:


    26. The stones, in falling, struck against these projections and reboundedfrom one to another; and the result was a series of pattering sounds that exactly imitated a rainstorm


    27. A few big raindrops fell pattering upon the leaves


    28. I loved it for the soft pattering of snow against my window at night, for the way fresh snow crunched under my black rubber boots, for the warmth of the cast-iron stove as the wind screeched through the yards, the streets


    29. The sounds seemed to have awakened the maids, too, for I could hear their bare feet pattering outside my door


    30. He was there—at least, a few yards further in the park; leant against an old ash-tree, his hat off, and his hair soaked with the dew that had gathered on the budded branches, and fell pattering round him

    31. Shouting, laughter, a squishing and pattering of water


    32. The pattering sound stopped


    33. She played and each time her fingers moved, the rain fell pattering through the dark hotel


    34. ” It was as still as a church on a week-day: the pattering rain on the forest leaves was the only sound audible in its vicinage


    35. Listen! You can hear their little feet pattering on the grass


    36. The stillness had only been broken by the pattering of the rain upon the slates and the skylight


    37. "Some nights I like the rain—I like to lie in bed and hear it pattering on the roof and drifting through the pines


    38. The roof leaked and the rain came pattering down on my bed


    39. As I listened to her clear, pleasant voice reading aloud, I kept glancing from her to the path of the flower-garden, where the rain-spots were making small dark circles in the sand, and thence to the lime-trees, upon the leaves of which the rain was pattering down in large detached drops shed from the pale, shimmering edge of the livid blue cloud which hung suspended over us


    40. Lubov Sergievna also seemed enraptured, and asked (among other things), “How does that birch tree manage to support itself? Has it stood there long?” Yet the next moment she became absorbed in contemplation of her little dog Susetka, which, with its stumpy paws pattering to and fro upon the bridge in a mincing fashion, seemed to say by the expression of its face that this was the first time it had ever found itself out of doors

    41. It didn’t come pattering like a shower, but in a wild dash against the side of the house, as if the wind had caught the crests of all the waves and was hurling them landward


    1. and to his alarm he could see the tiny patters of water outside turn into a torrential downpour


    2. From his footprint patters we can deduce that he is looking for Ainsley, as the trail moves in different directions backwards and forwards but eventually moves straight towards where Ainsley was hiding


    3. A faint breeze gave ambient texture to the background as Boris's movements made only the slightest patters of footsteps on the road


    4. identify potential trends in the market – especial y when used in conjunction with other indicators, al owing you to enter the market with strong references to the patters


    5. He had listened while his father explained the intricacies of laying patters out to make the best use of the cloth and the extra profit made by skilful cutting


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    Synonymes pour "patter"

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