was pitter-pattering
- past progressive of pitter-patter.
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“Ai, Chihuahua . . .” And, now that it had devoured most of the town’s water snakes, that grubby yellow feline reincarnation of Cleofes Apodaca was pitter-pattering quietly along the irrigation ditches, hunting frogs.
From "The Milagro Beanfield War" by John Nichols
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