Can it be that he has closed his ears to the dragging footfalls of the harlot host and to the sobs of strong men hopeless and anguished because work is wanting and to the sighing of wearied women and to the death-rattle of slaughtered babes?
The girl made her machinerattle still more hurriedly to prevent any further remarks trending in that direction.
Then the rattle of the machine began again, Nellie working with an adeptness that showed her to be an old hand.
Suddenly there was a sharp rattle in the corner of the cabin, followed by a heavy thud.
You can hear the bits rattle when you shake it," returned Emma smartly.
There were only two threepenny bits and a penny left to rattle when she shook the box, so she sighed ruefully as she locked it, and put it back in its place on the top shelf of the bookcase.
And so Timothy went on with a monologue replete with information, his high thin voice rising clear above the roar and rattle of the lumber wagon as it rumbled and jolted over the rutty gravel road.
Don't let the blank blank blank rattle you like a lot of blank blank chickens.
And now great gongs whang, Sharper, faster, And kettledrums rattle And hide the shame With a swish and a swirk In dead love's name.
I heard the rattle o' the handle presently, and the door swung slowly open.
The quick, crisp rattle was changed suddenly to a dull, muffled murmur.
I sat for some time in our small, oak-panelled sitting-room listening to the screeching and howling of the blast and to the rattle of the gravel and pebbles as they pattered against the window.
In the same manner, in listening to the sound of a carriage, the deeper rumbling noise of the body is no longer heard by an exhausted ear; but the rattle of a chain or loose screw remains at least as audible as before exhaustion.
By this simple process a great variety of sounds may be produced, varying from the deep growl of distant thunder to those loud and explosive bursts which rattle in quick succession from clouds immediately over our heads.
When the keys ceased their clicking the singer finished a bar and waited, till once more the dicelike rattle encouraged him to another ecstatic burst of melody.
It continued in the bed, panting and scratching for an hour and a half, and then went into the next room, where it knocked a little, and seemed to rattle a chain.
Something threatening, too; something sinister and deadly-- There was a rattle at the window, and I saw Parks lifting one of the shutters into place.
With rattle and roar the engineer keeps launching the train into the midnight.
They rattle over the lines of longitude, and set them together in their flight like the stripes on the American flag.
Arrived at Buffalo, amid surges of music and rattle of cannon, the Chief Executive poured that brackish Atlantic water into the fine indigo blue of Lake Erie.
There was a long silence, unbroken save by the whistle of the blasts and the metallic rattle of the sleety snow: "Ah-huk!
And standing motionless in the dusky passage, they heard the footsteps die away in the empty corridors, and the rattle of the wheels of the vehicle which bore him away forever.
And she heard the steady rattleof a revolving machine.
But at this moment the rattle of the revolving machine behind the hole ceased, the theatre blazed from end to end with sudden light, the music resumed, and a number of variegated advertisements were weakly thrown on the screen.
It nurses one's pride to sit aloft, and rattle past the farmhouses, and give our dust to the cringing foot tramps.
It is a gala-night when we rattle down the rough streets, and have pointed out to us the somber government buildings.
It is still early, and one is beginning to be lulled by the frogs and the crickets, when the faint rattle of a drum is heard,--just a few preliminary taps.
I was awakened in the small hours by the rattle of the winch.
During the morning hours the quilez and the carromata rattle along the bumpy cobblestones, the native driver, or cochero, in a white shirt, smoking a cigarette, and resting his bare feet upon the dashboard.
She's saying something now to amuse those people mightily," said Jack, as a hearty laugh rang out above the rattle of wheels.
Mrs. Ware, taking a big yellow bowl in her lap, sat down to pick over some dried beans, and to enjoy the lively conversation which kept pace with the rattle of the dishes.
Christmas, too, is come, which always puts a rattle into my morning skull.
The rattle of the French, German, Italian, and English tongues tells us that Switzerland has attractions for all nations, and the fame of her natural scenery attracts all to worship at its shrine.
But away we rattle through the streets of London, on, on.
All around the air was filled with the rattle of running water.
Miss Anastasia, lingering at her front gate in the early twilight, that she might enjoy to the last moment the orchard odours that filled all the balcony outdoors, heard the rattle of returning wheels.
Across the road, Miss Anastasia Dill, peeping through the blinds, watched the wagon rattle off with its merry load.
Mingled with the sounds of trade and barter there was heard the dry, thin rattle of a sistrum from a temple of Isis where priests and worshippers were gathered for hidden rites; the voices of men singing, the neighing of horses.
They passed; and from the kitchens came a rattle of crockery, a hiss of burning fat, the shrill voices of cooks and scullery women.
The noise produced was like that made by drawing a stick very rapidly over some wooden palings, and quite as loud, or even more like a watchman's rattle worked rather slowly.
All day we hung on the gate, gazing down the road, watching, waiting for the crew, and even after supper, we stood at the windows still hoping to hear the rattle of the ponderous separator.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "rattle" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
