Tappings

This is never done until the trees have been worked one season, but it is then repeated year after year, till on many plantations they present the marks of twenty and frequently thirty annual "tappings," and are often denuded of bark for a distance of thirty feet from the ground. ❋ James R. Gilmore (N/A)

From farther away I also heard fainter and lower tappings. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Early in my confinement I used to hear, at irregular intervals, faint low tappings. ❋ Unknown (2010)

The tappings seemed to come from everywhere; but we concluded that the concentration necessary on any spot to make an opening large enough for a man's body would inevitably draw our attention to that spot. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Italian is a jumping language, full of sharp tappings and still, somehow, musical. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Margaret and I, followed by Louis, Wada, and the steward, walked about from place to place, wherever the sounds arose of tappings and of cold-chisels against iron. ❋ Unknown (2010)

After all, with all the secret wire tappings on the American people ... we had 8 years of living under a tyrrany anyway. ❋ Unknown (2009)

I heard the tappings of Kelsey's worn heels on the concrete. ❋ Unknown (2010)

In scenes televised nationwide, rescuers wept as the men were brought out early Monday, eight days after waters flooded the 800-foot-deep shaft and three days after rescuers first heard what they believed were the tappings of miners on pipes. ❋ Shai Oster (2010)

Taylor bookended his set with wistful Wheeler compositions Consolation and Everybody's Song But My Own, and ran from hypnotic single-note tappings against crunching chords through surging contrapuntal improvisations and under-the-lid strummings on a Steve Swallow theme. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Theurgically lit from within, the window boxes displayed shifting, moving images that appeared to respond to the seemingly random tappings of the monks. ❋ Sugu Althomsons (2010)

Then again he heard the delicate tappings on the wall over the bedstead. ❋ Thomas Plastino Martin (2010)

Thought you'd like to know that PSB will be conducting two special tappings during the Great Taste! ❋ Unknown (2009)

Making fake-out shoulder tappings especially satisfying. ❋ Unknown (2007)

As Restrepo wishes the Inspector General Alejandro Ordóñez to “detect” those “obscure interests” inside the AG apparently leaking information to the media, as of Monday, March 2, no physical evidence of the illegal wire tappings has been found by the AG agents. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Presently two or three gentle tappings at the door made her, though fearfully, say, 'Come in!' ❋ Unknown (2008)

Did he know about the phone tappings or did he not. ❋ FIDO The Dog (2008)