"Rattled" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... it's all one—they're never still, those English!" A chorus of croaking laughter rattled down the street along with the ...
— In and Out of Three Normady Inns • Anna Bowman Dodd
... voice sounded so queer and hollow, shut up as it was in the can, and the nutmeg rattled around so, like thunder, that Johnnie Bushytail, the squirrel, was frightened, and ran away, without helping Brighteyes. Then she felt like crying, but, in a little while she heard some one else coming along through the woods, and she called: "Oh, ...
— Buddy And Brighteyes Pigg - Bed Time Stories • Howard R. Garis
... so far controlled herself as to press her lips in sorrow and gratitude to the thin hand whose caresses she had been wont to accept as a mere matter of course. How cold and heavy it was! She shivered and dropped it, and the large rings on the fingers rattled on the wooden frame of the couch. There was no hope; she understood that her friend and mother was indeed dead ...
— Uarda • Georg Ebers
... other side of the bridge, and, while aiming a blow with a stout stick at the first scoundrel, a blow that was effectual, called to the others, in a voice of authority, to put up their pistols "O Lord, boys, it's Nash; drive on," called one, and they whipped up their patient animals and rattled away in a desperate hurry. "You can come out now, Mr. Coristine," said the ...
— Two Knapsacks - A Novel of Canadian Summer Life • John Campbell
... door had closed behind his late colleagues, he made silently for the stairs. Of the snuff-boxes he thought no more. The man was rattled. His one idea was to pick up his traps and be gone. He was even afraid any more to employ his torch. Besides, the moonlight, to which Betty had drawn his attention, was ...
— Anthony Lyveden • Dornford Yates
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