rat-tat-too

Then I fell to upon the door-knocker and gave a loud rat-tat-too, and followed this up with an amiable

In the Days of the Comet Herbert George 2006

One afternoon while I was struggling over my theme, Berta threw a snowball against my window, flew up the dormitory steps, sped down the corridor, gave a double rat-tat-too on my door, and burst in without waiting for an answer.

Beatrice Leigh at College A Story for Girls Julia Augusta Schwartz

The first sound I heard the next morning was the rat-tat-too of a drum.

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 05, No. 32, June, 1860 Various

Then I fell to upon the door-knocker and gave a loud rat-tat-too, and followed this up with an amiable "Hel-lo!"

In the Days of the Comet 1906

Drums beat reveillé at four in the morning, and the rub-a-dub-dub of Queenston Heights is echoed by rat-tat-too of Lewiston, though river mist hides the armies from each other in the morning.

Canada: the Empire of the North Being the Romantic Story of the New Dominion's Growth from Colony to Kingdom 1903

"Take that -- and that -- and that," I heard him shout, with a rat-tat-too of sharp thuds from the staff accompanying each word.

Lords of the North 1903

A rat-tat-too o 'knives an' forks, a clinkty-clink o 'glasses:

The Complete Poetical Works of James Russell Lowell James Russell Lowell 1855

A rat-tat-too o 'knives an' forks, a clinkty-clink o 'glasses:

The Biglow Papers James Russell Lowell 1855

Peg; it will give you courage, for we are going to have a rat-tat-too. "

Personal Recollections, from Early Life to Old Age, of Mary Somerville Mary Somerville 1826