pitapat
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How his heart had gone pitapat when he had discovered it and had quietly, oh, so quietly, dropped his baited hook into the clear, spring water.
From A Son of the City A Story of Boy Life by Herman Gastrell Seely
I stood, and looked, and listened, and my heart went pitapat.
From Fables for Children, Stories for Children, Natural Science Stories, Popular Education, Decembrists, Moral Tales by Leo Tolstoy, Count
In a moment there was a curious tearing sound, and then a pitapat on the ground about them.
From Under Fire For Servia by Colonel James Fiske
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 Eugene Manlove Rhodes
Suddenly he fancied he heard feet outside going pitapat.
From Hans Andersen's Fairy Tales Second Series by H. C. (Hans Christian) Andersen
Pitt's panthers pitapatted round Nebraska; the line poked holes, Fullback Parkinson plunged twice for touchdowns.
From Time Magazine Archive
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