I don't want to go swimmin' in no creek full of moccasins--I'd rather sleep with rattlers or copperheads.
The rattlers were sadly forgetting their manners, for they struck on no provocation whatever, and did not even remember to rattle afterward.
You should see the swamps of Michigan where they dump rattlers from the marl-dredgers three and four at a time!
About ten o'clock, as there wur no signs of the Injuns, and the sun wur blazing down fit to frizzle up one's brain, I guessed rattlers would be out.
I was in too much of a hurry to think of the rattlers as I got in, but I had noticed as I went up what a lot of them there were lying on the rocks, and I thought a good deal about them as I was lying there.
I had found there was juice enough in the rattlers to do me; besides, there wur plants growing about that would help me a bit if I chewed the leaves, so I made up my mind that there was nothing else to do but to stop.
When night came I could have shifted, but I guessed I had got as good a place as another, and I might have put my foot into a nest of rattlers in the dark, so I lay there all night and all next day.
One or two of the rattlers became vicious under the strain, and coiled and struck.
Henry Flareup expressed his opinion that the dismay their non-arrival would cause would be jolly fun, and the Miss Rattlers were in ecstasies of delight at the contretemps.
The Gentle Giant, as the Miss Rattlers called Carstairs, looked out for a charmer, but could find none to surpass Mrs Skyscraper.
The Miss Rattlers called him the Paragon Puseyite, or the PP, which they said would stand as well for parish priest.
In vain did the riders look for other rattlers after that, for every one wanted every skin that could be gotten for souvenirs.
Tally then added, "No rattlers on dis side Rockies, all on udder side mountains.
You'll find th' rattlers made it too hot for him up there.
Other rattlers now became prominent and Johnny, realizing that he was an unwelcome guest in a rattlesnake den, made good use of his eyes and Colt as he edged towards the mouth of the crevice.
In the rough cañons and river banks the biggest rattlers are found, and you may jump, tumble or scramble on the back of one and run great chance of being bitten.
On the open prairie, where smaller rattlers are very plentiful, they always give you warning with their unique, unmistakable rattle.
In a general way, rattlers and gopher snakes look alike; what if this were a rattlesnake, and at my bidding my little horse should be struck!
Besides, rattlers are on the edge of thickets, not inside.
He used to be a gonoph, and had worked the rattlers and ferries in his youth.
I say," he cried, "it's hardly fair for us if you get chivvying those rattlers and sending them flying over the edge and down here.
No, thank you; I'm going to have the honour of sweeping down all the rattlersas I go up.
There arerattlers about, and if it wasn't for them it wouldn't be a bad place for a long halt.
We're not exactly short of food, but a little extra would be very useful, and as rattlers are so plentiful it seems almost a pity that we can't make them good to eat, and knock over all we come across.
When that went off with a good explosion, I should think the rattlers would scuttle away.
But now it is morning and we're all awake and rested you don't think it's likely that there are any rattlers down in that hole?
There's a heap of rattlers in this country," he had said.
The Florida men led the way over the bogs, watchfully alert for rattlers or other dangerous snakes.
Rattlers and other poisonous snakes are frequently encountered in the Everglades.
In a country as full of rattlers as this section is, it’s mighty dangerous to go stepping about through the woods on a dark night.
I must never go to the garden without a heavy stick or a corn-knife; she had killed a good many rattlers on her way back and forth.
Every step you take you imagine you hear rattlers sounding their warning.
But at last even the Rattlers and Robys were fixed, if not satisfied, and a complete list of the ministry appeared in all the newspapers.
But the Duchess did not care much for the Rattlers attached to her husband's Government.
The real struggle, however, lay in the appropriate distribution of the Rattlers and the Robys, the Fitzgibbons and the Macphersons among the subordinate offices of State.
While these statements were supplied by wholly unsupported witnesses, it was a very human weakness of Rattlers Ridge that the responsibility of corroboration was passed to the dog himself, and HE was looked upon as a consummate liar.
But the fact being established, I think we accepted it at Rattlers Ridge without question.
It was a joyous day at Rattlers Ridge that was equally the advent of his change of heart and the first stagecoach that had been induced to diverge from the highroad and stop regularly at our settlement.
Darned if they didn't turn round and take to the woods and the rattlers again afore they got halfway.
The rattlers would either have found their way out after that, or, when his body was discovered, the open door would have explained their presence inside, and no suspicion of a man's conspiracy would have remained.
Twice the gun roared, splintering the flooring and spattering its ricochetting pellets, and two of the rattlers twisted in convulsive but harmless writhings.
Certainly had one of the rattlers stung him and poisoned his reason, he could not be doing a thing more foreign to his program of intention.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "rattlers" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
