| Feet pattered down the stairs, and then strong, slender hands were ripping his sleeve apart. |
| It dripped and pattered off the skin-covering on to the boat and on to the rocks. |
| Benjamin pattered across the kitchen to his mother and grabbed her skirts. |
| Bare feet pattered on cold stone, the quick breaths shallow from exhaustion, Ayla and Dylan ran on in pursuit of the two shadowy figures. |
| She pattered on and on as we walked out the ramp to the airplane and were seated in the last row of the First Class section. |
| Its silk damask, pattered with ivory and green serpentines, is uncharacteristically bold for the period, which favored pallor. |
