1. We could hear mice pattering about/around looking for food.

2. 11 I could hear feet shuffling and pattering about upstairs.

3. 23 And the old fountain, now green with moss and algae, made a sweet, pattering sound.

4. And the old fountain, now green with moss and algae, made a sweet, pattering sound.

5. Round the corner of Droscent Bay, between the pile-up masses of broken rock, a flock of sheep came pattering.

6. Chrysalism (n.) the amniotic tranquility of being indoors during a thunderstorm, listening to waves of rain pattering against the roof like an argument upstairs, whose muffled words are unintelligible but whose crackling release of built-up tension you understand perfectly

7. Lachlan sat alone in his Bothie, busily employed, in twisting his oat straw siaman, humming to himself, and listening to the sound of the torrent as it dashed over the rooks, the pattering of the heavy rain, and the sheughs of the north-west wind, moaning as it passed along, all of which only served to increase his sense of comfort as he drew his three-legged stool nearer to the bright peat