Describing a rhythmic beating.
1 So pitty - pat down the spirit came, noisily tumbling over the cord.
2 It was enough to make Sadie's heart pitty - pat with delight.
3 My heart gave a little pitty - pat and I swallowed it.
4 And yet they chops make my heart go pitty-pat.'
5 My heart continued to go pitty - pat .
6 Traveling with the director-designate to headquarters would have once made her heart go pitty - pat , but now she was bone-tired and worried sick.
7 Then Johnny Cricket's little bug heart went pitty - pat , and sounded as if it would run a race with the ticking of the clock.
8 'Her heart,' she said, 'was easily set pitty - pat now.'
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