When bidding please use the word 'rataplan' so i'll now you've read this description!. From Wordnik.com. [Freelancer.com - New Projects] Reference
A rataplan on a side-drum feebly played in the street outside!. From Wordnik.com. [Pushed and the Return Push] Reference
Most of the time it was far away, and it only made two daily promenades past the hotel, but whenever I listened for it I could hear it, beating the same unweary rataplan. From Wordnik.com. [Schwartz: A History From "Schwartz" by David Christie Murray] Reference
In the Moorish host resounded of the drums the rataplan. From Wordnik.com. [The Lay of the Cid] Reference
A little drummer boy was marching at the head of a procession, gaily rolling his rataplan. From Wordnik.com. [The Eternal City] Reference
The first furious stampede had settled into a rapid trot, to a sound like the sound of a hundred muffled drums beating a rataplan. From Wordnik.com. [The Pools of Silence] Reference
The lone horseman reined back, wheeled, cast another vain glance toward Anna, and with an alarming rataplan of slipping and recovering hoofs sped down the column. From Wordnik.com. [Kincaid's Battery] Reference
A very handsome bird, glittering in the sun, had come looping swiftly past, and swung himself up to the broken-off top of a tall tree, where he rattled a loud rataplan, as much as to say, "Am I not a fine fellow?". From Wordnik.com. [Citizen Bird Scenes from Bird-Life in Plain English for Beginners] Reference
The clown, having seized the sticks of a drum fixed on one of the beams of the scaffolding, mingled a triumphant rataplan with the bombardment of the bass-drum, the cracked thunder of the cymbals, and the distracted wail of the clarionet. From Wordnik.com. [Ten Tales] Reference
Oh, they know too well in Paris -- a rataplan from the walking-stick on his back, that would be the answer; and a, 'My good fellow, we are not hiring professors of patience, but legs.'". From Wordnik.com. [Balcony Stories] Reference
They passed, and to the rataplan. From Wordnik.com. [From a Cornish Window A New Edition] Reference
rataplan, rataplan, rataplan!. From Wordnik.com. [VeryCD - 电驴资源订阅] Reference
Then, his brief ablutions were conducted to the accompaniment of the martial strains of the field musicians, alternating the sweet airs of Moore and Burns, the lyrics of Ireland and Auld Reekie, with quicksteps from popular Yankee melodies of the day, winding up with a grand flourish at the foot of the flagstaff, to whose summit the flag had started at the first alarum; then a rush into rattling "double quick" that summoned the laggards to scurry into the silently forming ranks, and finally, with one emphatic rataplan, the morning concert abruptly closed and the gruff voices of the first sergeants, in swift-running monotone, were heard calling the roll of their shadowy companies, and, thoroughly roused, the garrison "broke ranks" for the long routine of the day. From Wordnik.com. [An Apache Princess A Tale of the Indian Frontier] Reference
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