"Rattle off" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... great improvement is noticeable in this respect, and Scott is coming to be regarded as (for school purposes) our greatest historian. In some schools, as Lord Avebury has hinted, it was formerly thought that pupils knew history adequately when they could rattle off a list of dates and tell something of the deeds and misdeeds of a set of unhappy persons who masqueraded as statesmen and courtiers. Such unedifying farce has nothing to do with history, which is a serious, instructive, and all-embracing study. The social life of the ...
— Literary Tours in The Highlands and Islands of Scotland • Daniel Turner Holmes
... to swear that she was not one of the young women who could rattle off what they might call "harmless evasions" ...
— The House by the Lock • C. N. Williamson
... go into a place, is that nobody wants to see you, and no one will let you talk if they can help it. The only thing is to get in and rattle off your stunt before ...
— The Shuttle • Frances Hodgson Burnett
... and forthwith drew himself up as he stood, and recited the rules for the various ways in which the English sound "oh" may be represented in Swedish, giving the proper examples under the rule. This little Nono could rattle off in grand school-recitation style, though these etymological gymnastics never bore on his ...
— The Golden House • Mrs. Woods Baker
... school—it's all the same. Don't interrupt me, Fred. When my mind is full I must rattle off the speech somehow." ...
— Wild Kitty • L. T. Meade |
