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I may have had nine on in other circumstances, but never nine stars sitting in one grouping going rat - tat-tat with another one in Geneva, Switzerland.

CNN Transcript Dec 15, 2009 2009

Somewhere a woodpecker nailed tat-tat, tat-tat on a tree trunk.

Forty Acres and Maybe a Mule Harriette Gillem Robinet 1998

Somewhere a woodpecker nailed tat-tat, tat-tat on a tree trunk.

Forty Acres and Maybe a Mule Harriette Gillem Robinet 1998

With the "Rat-a-tat Quir-r-k, tat-tat" of the great crimson-crested woodpecker hammering just for noisy fun on the wide cornice of the "mansion," with the summer sun shining in through the window, and the five o'clock bell pealing sharply from Strieby Hall, the seven sleepers would have to be awake and doing at Tougaloo University.

The American Missionary — Volume 43, No. 10, October, 1889 Various

With a tat-tat like a small drum, my wife's shoes went briskly away, fading.

The Machineries of Joy Bradbury, Ray, 1920- 1949

Away in the distance you can barely hear the tat-tat of rifle fire.

JSOnline.com 2009

I could hear the tat-tat of Venus’s elegant heels on the stone floor ahead.

The Vesuvius Club Mark Gatiss 2004

I could hear the tat-tat of Venus’s elegant heels on the stone floor ahead.

The Vesuvius Club Mark Gatiss 2004