tap-tapping

My ears detected a regular tap-tapping sound and I searched for the source.

Arcane Circle Linda Robertson 2011

My ears detected a regular tap-tapping sound and I searched for the source.

Arcane Circle Linda Robertson 2011

For intimacy to develop, grow and flourish, each partner has to give freely, without regard for fairness, and both have to receive gratefully, without tap-tapping their feet for more.

Carolyn Hax: Divorced dad is torn over move to be with girlfriend Carolyn Hax 2010

My ears detected a regular tap-tapping sound and I searched for the source.

Arcane Circle Linda Robertson 2011

I sensed there was something up as soon as I presented myself in the durbar room; she was perfectly pleasant, vivacious even, as she told me about some new hunting-cheetah she'd been given, but her vakeel and chief minister weren't meeting her eye, and her foot was tap-tapping under the edge of her gold sari; ah, thinks I, someone's been getting the sharp side of missy's tongue.

Fiancée 2010

I'm the loony that's attracted to the sounds of tap-tapping away on a keyboard.

Why I Write Raamesh Gowri Raghavan 2010

This morning during the thunderstorm the house sprung a leak I'd never seen before, the raindrops tap-tapping onto the window sill inside the living room, something that certainly does not speak well of the integrity of the house -- and for which I blame Obama.

It's all Obama's fault 2010

Felicity looked away from her computer monitor, her forehead wrinkling as she pondered his question, a single finger tap-tapping against her chin.

Black Dust Mambo Adrian Phoenix 2010

She doesn't even look up, just keeps tap-tapping on by with her head down and right into her apartment.

'Home Game' 2009

And it is with the breathless anticipation of the next tap-tapping right shoe to drop.

Paul Jenkins: Larry Craig and the Next Shoe 2008