_:vb6889704 "Often followed by at or on: to strike lightly with a clear sound; also, to make a sharp noise through this action."@en . _:vb6889709 "There was a light in Ingram's windows, which were on the ground-floor; he tapped with his stick on one of the panes\u2014an old signal that had been in constant use when he and Ingram were close companions and friends."@en . _:vb6889706 . _:vb6889708 "1849, Charles Swain, \u201CThe Three Callers\u201D, in English Melodies, London: [\u2026] [Spottiswoode and Shaw] for Longman, Brown, Green, & Longmans,\u00A0[\u2026], \u2192OCLC, page 33:"@en . _:vb6889707 . _:vb6889707 "1845 February, \u2014 Quarles [pseudonym; Edgar Allan Poe], \u201CThe Raven\u201D, in The American Review\u200E[/S%3Aen%3AThe+American+Review%3A+A+Whig+Journal+of+Politics%2C+Literature%2C+Art%2C+and+Science%2FVolume+01%2FFebruary+1845%2FThe+Raven], volume I, number II, New York, N.Y., London: Wiley & Putnam,\u00A0[\u2026], \u2192OCLC, page 144:"@en . _:vb6889705 . _:vb6889710 . . _:vb6889711 . _:vb6889708 . "2.1" . _:vb6889709 . . _:vb6889711 "A stripling, blind, with a tapping cane, came taptaptapping by Daly's window [\u2026]"@en . _:vb6889709 "1873, William Black, \u201CA New Day Breaks\u201D, in A Princess of Thule.\u00A0[\u2026], New York, N.Y.; London: Harper & Brothers, \u2192OCLC, page 315:"@en . _:vb6889704 . _:vb6889708 "Night tappeth gently at a casement gleaming / With the thin fire light, flick'ring faint and low; [\u2026]"@en . _:vb6889707 "And so faintly you came tapping, tapping at my chamber door, / That I scarce was sure I heard you [\u2026]"@en . . _:vb6889710 "1891, Thomas Hardy, chapter XLIV, in Tess of the d\u2019Urbervilles: A Pure Woman Faithfully Presented\u00A0[\u2026], volume III, London: James R[ipley] Osgood, McIlvaine and Co.,\u00A0[\u2026], \u2192OCLC, phase the fifth (The Woman Pays), page 67:"@en . _:vb6889706 "1791, [Ann Radcliffe], chapter X, in The Romance of the Forest:\u00A0[\u2026], volume II, London: [\u2026] T[homas] Hookham and J. Carpenter,\u00A0[\u2026], \u2192OCLC, page 82:"@en . _:vb6889706 "She tapped gently at the door, and vvas an\u017Fvvered by Madame, vvho vvas alarmed at being avvakened at \u017Fo unu\u017Fual an hour, and believed that \u017Fome danger threatened her hu\u017Fband."@en . _:vb6889705 "The tree was swaying in the breeze and tapping on the window pane."@en . . _:vb6889711 "1922 February, James Joyce, \u201C[Episode 11: Sirens]\u201D, in Ulysses, Paris: Shakespeare and Company,\u00A0[\u2026], \u2192OCLC, part II [Odyssey], page 277:"@en . _:vb6889710 "They heard her footsteps tap along the hard road as she stepped out to her full pace."@en . .