pitapat

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And then she added, with a laugh, that he ought to be tied up, "for you are a cruel handsome man, Frank, and my heart goes pitapat at the very sight of you!"

From Love, the Fiddler by Osbourne, Lloyd

Roll -- N. roll &c. v.; drumming &c. v.; berloque†, bombination†, rumbling; tattoo, drumroll; dingdong; tantara†; rataplan†; whirr; ratatat, ratatat-tat; rubadub; pitapat; quaver, clutter, charivari†, racket; cuckoo; repetition &c.

From Roget's Thesaurus of English Words and Phrases by Roget, Peter Mark

Awguan, top horse and foreman of Stanley's mount, swung pitapat down the winding pass at a brisk fox trot.

From Copper Streak Trail by Rhodes, Eugene Manlove

And their hearts go pitapat When they hear the soldiers come With a r-r-rat-tat-tat And a tum-titty-um-tum-tum!

From Love-Songs of Childhood by Field, Eugene

Suddenly he fancied he heard feet outside going pitapat.

From Hans Andersen's Fairy Tales Second Series by Andersen, H. C. (Hans Christian)