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    1. Johnny turned to put his jacket over the back of a chair he heard a rattle and a click


    2. there comes the nervous rattle of electronic messaging


    3. the rattle of a box


    4. the rattle of chain and the tumble of teeth


    5. I found myself remembering my holidays from boarding school and how Uncle Pantelis would rattle on, telling tales, pointing things out and singing some moody love song or other, mixing Greek and English in the same sentence


    6. The rattle of the back door suggests that Billy is coming back into the house


    7. Kick the line and the can would rattle


    8. Twenty minutes later she heard a rattle of gunfire and knew that she had made the correct decision remaining hidden


    9. had begun to rattle ad sway again, and after about a hundredth


    10. missing, and all that was left to rattle inside the house was

    11. Within a day, Nerissa lay shivering so violently, her chain’s rattle unnerved the ewes


    12. To see or play with a rattle in a dream signifies joy, tranquility and contentment in the home


    13. The long grass rustled at her feet as the White Rabbit hurried by–the frightened Mouse splashed his way through the neighbouring pool–she could hear the rattle of the teacups as the March Hare and his friends shared their never-ending meal, and the shrill voice of the Queen ordering off her unfortunate guests to execution–once more the pig-baby was sneezing on the Duchess’s knee, while plates and dishes crashed around it–once more the shriek of the Gryphon, the squeaking of the Lizard’s slate-pencil, and the choking of the suppressed guinea-pigs, filled the air, mixed up with the


    14. It would rattle his window


    15. ” Sam coughed and I heard a distinct rattle in his throat that concerned me a bit and I told him to stop if he was tired or his wounds were hurting him too much


    16. Every time he would cut a strand the bloody bully beef tins would rattle like a load of cow bells


    17. “That’s fine young man nice and steady I must admit you had us a bit worried when you arrived I pulled a lot of scrap metal out of you and a couple of bullets it’s a wonder that you didn’t rattle like ironmongers cart”, and he smiled at his joke


    18. and the landlord's own stereo and the rattle of the pool table and the two slot-machines chattering


    19. There were lots of cow herds about and the soil looked rich and the grass lush and sweet there were forests and some quite steep wide ravines as we passed by them but we were not destined to rattle along for much longer


    20. On and on the train went the rattle clack of its wheels lulling us into a trance like state until the old engine came to an incline or hill and then it would wheeze and snort like an old asthmatic

    21. There were more hold ups and every time we moved off again the buffers would crash together hard enough to rattle your teeth and make your ears ring and the coupling chains would jangle and clank as they swayed when the engine pulled off


    22. Always though you could hear the tramping of boots, the rattle of curb chains, the creak of harness and the clatter and rumble of wheels that never stopped day or night


    23. Around us we could hear the creaking of harness and the rattle of curb chains and smell the horsey smell that marked either s supply of artillery unit that had stopped beside the road


    24. We breakfasted in the morning and then started our steady march up to the front line as we got closer we could hear the crump thump of shells and trench-mortars and we also fancied that we could hear the rattle of machine gun fire


    25. The leave train seemed to take forever to get anywhere and it seemed that every couple of miles we were held back to let some priority rolling stock rattle past on its way to god knows where


    26. The vessel was close enough, however, to hear the roar of artillery and the rattle of muskets to know that a battle was going on


    27. “As you have behaved more like a greedy child, rather than a strong-willed young woman, I feel the most fitting punishment is to take something away from you, like taking the rattle away from the baby


    28. pierce that armor of discipline and steely nerve and rattle her cage; he wasn’t sure he wanted to


    29. On Thursday 23rd a distant rattle of musketry wafted over Los Altares, six altar-shaped foothills, and huge columns of smoke crept up against the sky line


    30. Archer sat by the rude hearth of his Big Rattle camp, brooding in a

    31. It was the waters of Stone Arrow Falls, above Big Rattle


    32. "Big Rattle off there, Archer's camp over there


    33. was startled by a rattle of snowshoes at his threshold and a soft


    34. The long grass rustled at her feet as the White Rabbit hurried by--the frightened Mouse splashed his way through the neighbouring pool--she could hear the rattle of the teacups as the March Hare and his friends shared their never-ending meal, and the shrill voice of the Queen ordering off her unfortunate guests to execution--once more the pig-baby was sneezing on the Duchess's knee, while plates and dishes crashed around it--once more the shriek of the Gryphon, the squeaking of the Lizard's slate-pencil, and the choking of the suppressed guinea-pigs, filled the air, mixed up with the distant sobs of the miserable Mock Turtle


    35. It finally died with a horrendous death rattle, the ragged breath coming out of its mouth in a horrid stench


    36. Somewhere off to the northeast, maybe a kilometre and a half away, he heard the rattle of gunfire


    37. They were interrupted by a rattle as the old waited reappeared, wheeling a trolley on which were two silver cloche covered plates


    38. The car stood waiting for a chuffing yard engine to rattle past us in a cloud of smoke and steam


    39. �Look detective, when you rattle the cage of the President of the United States, what did you expect? Roses and chocolates in a gift box?� Agent Anders replied sharply


    40. He then lifted his hat slightly as if to greet her, and with a trick of the hand seemed to produce a baby’s rattle which the newly born boy could not even hope to grasp yet; its sound though seemed to calm him

    41. I was about to rattle off a few more holidays, but only the Abnegation celebrate them


    42. The blast must have been strong enough to rattle her, and the monster had to place her hands out beneath her to slowly pull herself up


    43. As the escort finishes his sentence, a nearby explosion rocks the crypt, and the bones begin to rattle with life once again


    44. It was coiled, with its tongue darting in and out, as its rattle sounded


    45. They get a new rattle ever time they shed they skin


    46. I kicked a can and it made that empty tin rattle that you associate with deserted streets, or Stop It and Tidy Up


    47. With a rattle, the phone clattered down the back of the booth


    48. He took a step forward just as he noticed the noise of the battle had ceased and that all he could hear was the growing rattle of bones


    49. The ice rattle turned to a roar as it was swept by the ever-steepening angle into the water in a sudden rush


    50. Murdam was interrupted by a steady rattle of shots














































    1. My phone rattled out onto the ground beside me where Garda Thicke had thrown it


    2. Keys rattled on a chain


    3. He raised a rifle in the air, an ancient Kalishnakov from the days of the founders, and threw his head back and rattled the whole clip into the sky


    4. With every turn and every bump in the road, with every jarring pothole, my bones rattled like dice in a cup, and then the endless aching began


    5. Bahkmar rattled off the names of everyone he knew, practically every technician had access and could get anywhere he had gone if they wanted to


    6. She rattled the car keys over his head


    7. I rattled the handle and lingered, cheeky curiosity I suppose, and I didn't have long to wait


    8. Abruptly, he gave the table such a thump the bottles rattled and one clattered and rolled onto the floor


    9. I rattled the handle of the bathroom door


    10. While that rattled in his head, he was suddenly arguing with Ava over sex again

    11. His employer rattled through some thanks, greeted the great and the good in the audience and continued to tell everyone about the new plant


    12. So, instead of creeping about I took a deep breath and bellowed out his name into the nearest hovel which caused a rattled flock of partridges to explode and clatter into the air right in front of my face almost knocking me over in their escape


    13. His employer rattled through some


    14. as the lorry bounced and rattled on the road, the driver wrestling


    15. The train rattled through the city and slowed as they reached the station at 5:06 P


    16. scavenging dogs before them as they rattled over the icy


    17. Soon Crystal’s laugh rattled against Emma's chest, as she burst into wild laughter that grew and spread


    18. “A snake or a bug or something like that" He rattled off


    19. "What did you think we were doing?" Her voice was full of spirit, that rattled of don't mess with me mister


    20. The silly little poem rattled about in her head

    21. "Their contesting the Will” her voice rattled as she spoke


    22. "Wes, challenged you again?" Todd's voice rattled as he asked the question


    23. " Her voice rattled as she repeated Bad Seed


    24. He rattled his head in response


    25. rattled harder and more frequently, and it was clear that


    26. As they rattled on out of this courtyard, the driver grabbed another slap


    27. Somewhere away down south in the great hall of the Senate a saucepan bearing a Chief Justice Ministers wig and gown, rattled impatiently on one of the large leather chairs A janitor passed by and picked it up


    28. Everyone shouted at once and the windows rattled so loud was the cry


    29. that the train rattles and swayed all the way, and rattled and


    30. Her roar rattled the shed

    31. Thus the train rattled and swayed on, brimming with joy and


    32. She could not hold back a playful grin at his mention of a saber cat’s vitality while he rattled off the bottled benefits


    33. The voice without an owner had rattled him


    34. She paced on and on, her plastic bags rattled as they hit against her legs


    35. Guilt rattled around in the pit of my stomach though, and I couldn't pinpoint why


    36. The gate rattled in the darkness, bouncing inward for a brief moment


    37. As the tram rattled across the junctions and carried on towards my stop the wound in my leg was giving me jip and my groin had started to ache abominably and I didn’t know if it was because of the weather or what


    38. The cold hand rattled at her bones


    39. The train rattled on through the night and I tried to sleep but I couldn’t I had already eaten my sandwiches which had seemed to stick in my throat at every bite


    40. However I had done better with the beer and fags which I was chain smoking causing a fug in the compartment like a North Sea fog as the train rattled on through the night taking its occupants ever onward to their destinations

    41. Roleston rattled on


    42. With the clashing together of the couplings and buffers and a couple of jerks that rattled the trucks then a loud hiss of escaping steam as an accompaniment we set off for the front


    43. The noise rattled out across the landscape and then the whole front opened up with flares arcing into the sky and firing coming from all directions at once or so it seemed to me


    44. “Give I to them lads”, and we heaved our bombs forward while he rattled off a few shots


    45. That left me and Bert as the tram rattled and clattered its way over the tracks and crossways but it was not long before my stop was coming up but Bert stayed put


    46. Dammit, she was jealous! That Frank saw Rosemary as a younger version of herself rattled her to the core! She hoped that that was not the case


    47. A short while later Bert turned up and we walked down the road and caught a tram into town I asked him as we rattled along


    48. Rosemary's antics had rattled him


    49. She obviously had experience of the old bus; it had rattled the whole journey


    50. What was she going to do? Well, she wasn't going to let Jack or Shelagh see that she was rattled














































    1. Bolt rattles his head in assent, grins, takes the hose emanating from the hooka, closes his eyes, puts the mouthpiece between his lips and takes a huge drag


    2. A key rattles in the lock and the door opens


    3. It shakes the house and rattles the pictures on the walls


    4. The wall mounted boiler in the kitchen rattles and groans as it heats the water


    5. The electronic pulse to her left rattles like howitzer fire, a distant memory causing a Pavlovian response


    6. that the train rattles and swayed all the way, and rattled and


    7. The vibrating sound rattles the already broken glass in homes, causing more fragments to fall


    8. Another explosion then rattles the crypt, and a staccato of gunshots erupts nearby


    9. With a few last rattles and wobbles, the wheel above them stopped moving


    10. He rattles the doorknob

    11. Perhaps the creepiest part is the children’s section, where some graves are marked with baby rattles, stuffed animals, or circles of stones spelling out a name


    12. The apartment building rattles and plaster dust falls


    13. And finally they get their turn! Eric runs up to Santa, running past all the elves like he was a quarterback that their father likes to watch on TV, and he jumps into Santa’s arms and gives him a big kiss—to heck with manliness! And he says please Santa can I have… Eric rattles off a list of toys and games like he was an auctioneer


    14. In wire pens that surrounded the dance floor and among large Amazonian camellias there were herons of different colors, crocodiles as fat as pigs, snakes with twelve rattles, and a turtle with a gilded shell who dove in a small artificial ocean


    15. Its title, “Inquiry Rattles Whitehall,”


    16. It was late afternoon when a messenger from Gled told me to hurry home, Jodas accompanied me and we soon arrived at mothers bed, she looked both weak and frail, but sensibly she was being treated by a medical man, quite different from the medicine men, whom mother said were all charlatans with their rattles and mumbo jumbo, she was having some difficulty with headaches, a constant cough, and bouts of dizziness, Mocal said it came on quite sudden and when the cough started she’d insisted on mother being confined to bed, it was a fright seeing mother so helpless, I didn’t say anything I just sat and held her hand as she lay exhausted, she slept fitfully on and off throughout the night, Gled and Jodas also sat at the bedside with me, Gled fussed constantly with the bed clothes until Jodas stopped her, so she went to the kitchen and organized regular refreshments throughout the night, Coatl seemed quite preoccupied, he came and went at least ten times during the night each time he came to mothers room he seemed more agitated, not being able to stand by and see him in such turmoil I followed him out and asked what the trouble was, he said that he had been trying to contact Red Fawn to let her know why they couldn’t be together for a while but she hadn’t answered any of his messages, with all the drama and tension of mother’s illness I’m afraid I ran out of patience with his illegal love affair


    17. your mind rattles on non-stop in a self-deprecating manner, you need to


    18. She cooks the same way,’ he rattles them off


    19. ‘What do you call a man with a spade in his mouth? Doug,’ he rattles on


    20. The kitchen window rattles and shakes

    21. The stall door rattles


    22. The blast goes off, and the car rattles


    23. [131] I also recall seeing a video of a self-defence class in a Muslim girls’ school, and a devout Hindu friend of mine (he rattles off Sanskrit verses at the drop of a hat) from Bihar, who happened to have studied in an Islamic school for some time, tells me that he never faced any discrimination and in fact, cherishes some of the lessons he was taught from the Quran


    24. it rattles the fears,


    25. The young American said, "I think when they're very young they enjoy rattles, Mr


    26. songs of siskins, the odd croaks, rattles and burps of a strutting


    27. No form can he set on his sensations as he strolls, one blazing afternoon, along the Parisian boulevard and skips out of the way of the royal landau which, looking indescribably ramshackle, rattles along the pitted roadway, saluted by citizens of both sexes cheaply dressed in bowler hats and continental costumes; though a shepherd in kilt, cap, and gaiters very nearly drives his herd of goats between the royal wheels; and all the time the Acropolis surges into the air, raises itself above the town, like a large immobile wave with the yellow columns of the Parthenon firmly planted upon it


    28. The crush'd head I dress, (poor crazed hand tear not the bandage away,) The neck of the cavalry-man with the bullet through and through examine, Hard the breathing rattles, quite glazed already the eye, yet life


    29. Steady the trot to the cemetery, duly rattles the death-bell,


    30. He made me take off the rattles and tie them around his

    31. The window rattles and Dede turns to it


    32. Frederick presses a button and something high in the building rattles and Werner whispers, “You have an elevator?”


    33. In April 1944 the Opel rattles into a white city full of empty windows


    34. The Russians go into the closet, and they hear the handles of mops being kicked drunkenly and a crate of dictionaries go thudding down the stairs, and then someone rattles the knob


    35. Pig Out,” New York, June 26, 2005; Chris Ballard, “That Is Going to Make You Money Someday,” The New York Times, August 31, 2003; Associated Press, “Kobayashi’s Speedy Gluttony Rattles Foes,” ESPN


    36. His breathing rattles through his lungs; he’s consumed with that unsteady, floaty feeling of having just escaped disaster


    37. The blow rattles up her arm, jolting her injured wrist


    38. Then Joe and Huck had another swim, but Tom would not venture, because he found that in kicking off his trousers he had kicked his string of rattlesnake rattles off his ankle, and he wondered how he had escaped cramp so long without the protection of this mysterious charm


    39. There are birds in the clouds, just as there are angels above human distresses; but what can they do for him? They sing and fly and float, and he, he rattles in the death agony


    40. You can’t entertain a baby with rattles and sirens all night every night for the next thirty years

    41. There were footsteps on his porch and the snakes whirred their rattles but not violently


    42. I might have seen what was in the wind if I hadn’t been thick-headed, what with the champagne and the rattles


    1. Could my distorted mind be playing tricks on me? Was the ultimate nature of my lunacy to take shape in a world of imagined friends, of odd and sundry voices rattling off the walls of my empty head?


    2. Stu hoped that the place would be full of locals, bewhiskered old men rattling their rosaries and maybe playing backgammon, with their wives, those little old bewhiskered crones huddled in a corner chattering away noisily


    3. rattling in her head with the chorus, Don’t Speak


    4. He lifted the rattling bag of tricks, wedging the cracked plastic base


    5. “So young man, how are things at the camp?” She slid her arm in his and led him around the side of the house rattling off a series of questions


    6. his rattling of hinges, his wrenching at shutters,


    7. The car is slow starting this morning … is there something wrong with it? Oh I do hope not … what’s that rattling noise? Was it there yesterday? I take a deep breath … Simon - I am not on my own; I hang on to that thought


    8. He briefly guided the new arrivals through the grounds, rattling


    9. When the day finally comes, when Jock's liver gives up the ghost, he wants to come home with a sheepish grin all over his face, rattling on about dignity, all the while thanking every bone in his body for the National Health Service


    10. With the details of the modus operandi rattling though his mind,

    11. rattling the wire fencing


    12. Although he couldn’t feel it, he could hear the wind blowing, rattling the


    13. I started rattling things off like


    14. Hearing the third ring Maggie fully expects the carefully chosen words of the voicemail lady to lay down the usual barriers to direct communication, but Maggie's rattling train of thought is rudely derailed by a male voice


    15. rattling against the window


    16. The sound of dishes rattling about in the kitchen, told her Beth was still hard at work, as well, adding to her determination to finish the checks on time


    17. He could hear the wagon traffic rattling on the cobblestone streets


    18. dogs foaming at the mouth, rattling the doors of their cages in their anticipation for


    19. off passers by and rattling the glass panes with each new


    20. The dagger fell from her fingers, rattling on the gravel road

    21. overloaded cart rattling along the cobblestones behind,


    22. It fell, slipping from the door handles and rattling as it landed on the street


    23. It was a rattling blend of nervousness and eager pride


    24. rippling to the waving of the reeds–the rattling teacups would change to


    25. However what was only minutes later but seemed like hours the final strand was cut but the tins kept rattling making us jump but eventually we made it back to our own trench without the Turks firing a shot


    26. The lads in our trench weren’t though and we jumped at the noise you were making it sounded like an ironmongers cart going by with all the rattling and clanging that was going on


    27. But within minutes the Turkish artillery responded with heavy shrapnel and we could hear it pinging and rattling like hailstone on the front trenches were the casualties and dead had began to pile up before a single man had started advancing towards the Turkish lines


    28. Both sides were now going at it hammer and tongue and this continued for some time with very lights soaring in to the sky machine guns rattling away and trench-mortars throwing their shells over


    29. Her jaw was locked tight to stop her teeth from rattling


    30. ! Blast him anyway! Later he heard dishes rattling and music from the stereo and voices

    31. The night went on the same with flares illuminating the landscape and the machine guns rattling away at anything that moved or made a noise out in the open


    32. Carmen paused on her way to the house, the breath rattling in her chest


    33. last, and the station 'bus was rattling up with the first homecomers,


    34. winter wind rattling the ivy leaves and bending the trees


    35. Half a dozen keys shot from the laptop, rattling off the desk and flying in all directions


    36. This was saber rattling to protect one's self proclaimed turf


    37. The train gathered speed, rattling his dentures across the hard plastic surface of the table with a noise reminiscent of demented castanets


    38. It was the time of the rut, when the sound of antlers rattling against other antlers would tell her where to go


    39. Well, we both heard him rattling on endlessly about how unfairly his brother treats him


    40. ” The sound of a spoon rattling in a cup covered the next few words

    41. They returned separately to their wicker chairs, first Truman who busied himself with a freshly prepared drink, rattling ice cubes in his glass


    42. His voice was like rattling embers


    43. In the rattling sanctuary of the bus, they talked football and chewed over the world’s problems


    44. "Why don't we give some of those winnings to the Salvo's rattling their can in front of the cathedral? They are collecting for the earthquake appeal" Ingrid suggested


    45. Meanwhile, news reports were telling of further aftershocks in Christchurch, rattling the nerves of city folk


    46. Another rattling sound echoed, this time stronger, closer than before


    47. The column disappeared, and Roland fell on his back, rattling


    48. Behind her were all the sounds of the preparing of the evening meal, rattling of pots and pans, crackling from the fires, voices, laughter, and the hungry crying of a little child


    49. It was a slow process taking nearly five minutes but the lock and the door fell to the floor, rattling noisily


    50. A rattling to














































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    Synonyms for "rattle"

    rattle rale rattling disturb unnerve bother clack bicker shatter

    "rattle" definitions

    a rapid series of short loud sounds (as might be heard with a stethoscope in some types of respiratory disorders)


    a baby's toy that makes percussive noises when shaken


    loosely connected horny sections at the end of a rattlesnake's tail


    make short successive sounds


    shake and cause to make a rattling noise