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Usage examples of rapped.

Zulkeh and Shelyid arrived at the palace door, upon which the wizard rapped imperiously with his staff.

Meantime the courier, whose presence seemed to be entirely forgotten, dismounted, and rapped softly at the door.

The travelling-coach, drawn by the six horses, rolled up to the door, and High-chamberlain von Schladen rapped timidly and begged leave to enter.

Passing the footman and hastening down the corridor, he rapped at the last door.

Yevgeny rapped his knuckles on the thick glass partition separating him from the two men in the front seat.

He preceded the visitor down a marble hallway and up a curving flight of stairs covered with a worn red runner, rapped twice on a door on the second floor, threw it open and stepped back to let Yevgeny through.

Finding the door ajar, he rapped on it with his knuckles and pushed through to discover Ebby sitting with his feet propped up on the sill.

A short matronly woman with coarse gray hair and a stethoscope dangling from her neck rapped her knuckles against the open door and walked in.

The Wiz swayed to his feet and rapped a knife against a bottle of wine to propose a toast.

Now, turning to the wall behind him, he rapped the grease pencil marks on the plastic overlay to bring everyone up to date on the progress of the five freighters ferrying Brigade 2506 toward the beaches designated Blue and Red at the Bay of Pigs.

The man rapped his knuckles on it twice, then produced a key, unlocked the door and stepped back.

Mossad agents rapped his knuckles on the window, pointed to his wristwatch and said something in Hebrew.

The two soldiers on duty, country boys from the look of them, were dozing in the guardhouse when she rapped on the window.

He walked up to the counter and rapped on it with the butt of the rifle, jerking the old woman out of a daydream.

Outside the tent the general rapped the sentries sharply on their helmets.