battering
Britishnoun
Example Sentences
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And Pattering Leaves came in and danced again, and the King smiled, and Pattering Leaves was happy though she had not the wisdom of the prophets.
From Time and the Gods by Dunsany, Edward John Moreton Drax Plunkett, Baron
Pattering footsteps sounded on the causeway, and a little crowd of nearly doubled figures came up it at a run.
From Told in the East by Mundy, Talbot
And to feel the April rain Pattering on my face again.
From The Dales of Arcady by Ratcliffe, Dorothy Una
A little brisk grey slattern of a woman, Pattering along in her loose-heel'd clogs, Pushed the brass-barr'd door of a public-house; The spring went hard against her; hand and knee Shoved their weak best.
From Georgian Poetry 1918-19 by Marsh, Edward Howard, Sir
Oh, the dying leaves, Like a drizzling rain, Falling round the roof— Pattering on the pane!
From The Poems of Henry Kendall With Biographical Note by Bertram Stevens by Kendall, Henry
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