The tattoo raised his hand and tapped quietly on the door to Stucke's apartment.

Starting out slowly, the drummers quietly tapped away, adding slight variations on repeated rhythms.

Grabbing a robe and a towel, she was heading for the shower when someone tapped quietly at the cabin door.

It depends on a single hand - not clapping, but quietly tapping with the thumb on the other four fingers.

Halloran quietly tapped on the door and waited.

A stenographer tapped quietly at her small machine.

Mr. Cohen quietly tapped away as the judge said the case was serious and gave the man a two-year sentence.

I'll tap quietly on a drum and not disturb anyone.

He was still quietly tapping away, with a calm, clinical detachment that she thought she could begin to find annoying.

He tapped quietly on the chair arm with his forefinger.