One loud rat-tat made me feel certain that Kosinski had arrived, but.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Girl Among the Anarchists] Reference

A sudden rat-tat at the door silenced them, and a servant entered with a telegram.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Scarlet Feather] Reference

But the final pause was in this direction, and then came a sharp rat-tat at the door.    From Wordnik.com.  [New Grub Street] Reference

Claxby tut-tutted, a sharp little rat-tat through clenched teeth that sounded more like gunshot.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Fifth Rapunzel]

The next morning, as the clock hands pointed to 9.15, a loud rat-tat resounded through the house.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Girl Among the Anarchists] Reference

A sharp rat-tat at the door of her sitting-room recalled Diana's wandering thoughts to the present.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Splendid Folly] Reference

He was interrupted by a loud rat-tat at the outer door.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Odd Women] Reference

The rat-tat sounded hollowly, but there was no response.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Doomsman] Reference

Blessed is he who is made happy by the sound of the rat-tat!.    From Wordnik.com.  [The History of Pendennis] Reference

Johnny could still hear their rat-tat and the sing of bullets.    From Wordnik.com.  [Panther Eye] Reference

On this our guide knocked with a peculiar postman-like rat-tat.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Sign of the Four] Reference

As she spoke, a rat-tat sounded from without, and, having advised.    From Wordnik.com.  [Denzil Quarrier] Reference

In the same moment there sounded again a rat-tat at the outer door.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Whirlpool] Reference

At this critical moment a loud rat-tat sounded at the door, and Mrs.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Fortunes of the Farrells] Reference

She ran up the steps and sounded a rattling rat-tat on the knocker.    From Wordnik.com.  [Wild Kitty] Reference

We expect her to do rat-tat-tat knots and she'll mount rat-tat guns.    From Wordnik.com.  [Great Britain at War] Reference

Then I went to the inn door and sounded a loud rat-tat with the knocker.    From Wordnik.com.  [Reminiscences of a South African Pioneer] Reference

His words were interrupted by a sharp rat-tat from the direction of the inner door.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes] Reference

Another loud rat-tat was heard at the door, threatening to burst it from its hinges.    From Wordnik.com.  [Rookwood] Reference

Iris had been called from dreamless sleep by a thundering rat-tat on her cabin door.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Stowaway Girl] Reference

The silence of a minute or two was broken by a thunderous rat-tat at the house-door.    From Wordnik.com.  [The House of Cobwebs and Other Stories] Reference

His words were interrupted by a sharp rat-tat from the direc - tion of the inner door.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes]

And flick! it was gone into a doorway, and rat-tat, flick, and there it was again -- coming!.    From Wordnik.com.  [This Freedom] Reference

I climb'd off Molly, and pressing my hat down on my head, struck a loud rat-tat on the door.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Splendid Spur] Reference

At the first brisk rat-tat of her knuckles on the door there had sounded a shrill "Come in!".    From Wordnik.com.  [Cheerful—By Request] Reference

Pollyooly hurried after her; and there came the loud rat-tat of the lawyer at the front door.    From Wordnik.com.  [Happy Pollyooly The Rich Little Poor Girl] Reference

Hardly had he begun to rebuke Michael, when "rat-tat" went the iron ring that hung at the door.    From Wordnik.com.  [What Men Live By and Other Tales] Reference

Hardly had he begun to rebuke Michael, when 'rat-tat, went the iron ring that hung at the door.    From Wordnik.com.  [Twenty-Three Tales] Reference

At last ten o'clock struck, and almost at the same time came the sound of the postman's rat-tat.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Fortunes of the Farrells] Reference

Immediately from the passage with out came the sound of grounding arms, and the rat-tat of a drum.    From Wordnik.com.  [This Country of Ours: The Story of the United States] Reference

"Well, over all she measured exactly rat-tat feet.    From Wordnik.com.  [Great Britain at War] Reference

Not a ring, but a hard rat-tat on the hobbit’s beautiful green door.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Hobbit]

Germany can't touch her for speed and size, and better than that, she's got rat-tat -- ".    From Wordnik.com.  [Great Britain at War] Reference

Soon after his departure there was a visitor’s rat-tat at the door; it heralded Mrs Goby.    From Wordnik.com.  [New Grub Street] Reference