Beside them lay their drums of tightly stretched skin and their rattles of turtle shell or gourd.
Presently the shamans ceased to beat their drums and shake their rattles and crouched again about the fire.
And, by way of further expression of his anger, for which words do not suffice, Edmund rattles the tongs about among the embers on the hearth.
Rohritz stands half smiling, half sympathetically, beside them, chalking his cue, while the parrot rattles at the bars of his cage and tries to out-shriek Freddy.
Now, however, a machine has been invented which rattles through the streets daily, and has spoiled this source of income for the unemployed.
And now a milk-cart rattles briskly onward, covered with green canvas and conveying the contributions of a whole herd of cows, in large tin canisters.
The firelight gradually brightens and throws my flickering shadow upon the walls and ceiling of the chamber, but still the storm rages and rattles against the windows.
Whenever the historian mentions the name of his rival, he rattles his box of abusive epithets until the reader is wearied by the image of the monster conjured up before him.
He motions that he will sleep, and as the trainrattles into Esperanza and the chilling air from the mountains makes your teeth chatter, he lies sound asleep, his cruel face, almost beautiful in repose, pillowed on his rounded arm.
There was no standard coinage, for metals were almost unknown; but more as counters than as money were used the cocoa bean, tiny bells, and rattles of copper and stone beads.
She vibrates in passionate convulsion on recovery, masts oscillate like the spring of a whip-shaft, the rigging jars and rattles at the bolts, a crash of broken glass showers from the bridge to the deck below!
To keep in station on our pacemaker, we call for constant alterations in the speed--a range of revolutions that rattles up scale and down, like first lessons on the piano, and sets the engineers below to a plaintive verge of tears.
On telegraphic advice the arm of the semaphore rattles down.
There were rattles for the baby, dolls for the little girl, and drums and knives and tops for the boys.
In addition to these rattles many grotesque animal figures came to light through the various excavations; these figures were probably made for children to play with.
Both from Babylonia and Palestine clayrattles have been recovered.
But now he did find something that for the time being made him quite forget Rattles and his home.
But at last it was down, andRattles set himself to watch for another.
Then he squatted down and looked eagerly for a hole such as he imagined Rattlesthe Kingfisher might make.
What kind of a nest does Rattles the Kingfisher build?
You said that you had just learned that Rattles the Kingfisher has his home in a bank.
Peter Rabbit scampered along down one bank of the Laughing Brook, eagerly watching for a high, gravelly bank such as Grandfather Frog had said that Rattles the Kingfisher likes to make his home in.
His own patience was reaching an end and he was just about to go on in search of Rattles the Kingfisher when like a flash the dagger-like bill of Longlegs shot out and down into the water.
He knew right away that Rattles couldn't possibly get in or out of a single one of those holes.
Presently Rattles flew out and plunged into the Smiling Pool again, this time, very near to where Longlegs was patiently waiting.
Yes," said he, "Rattles lives in a hole in the ground.
There was a splash, and a second later Rattles was in the air again, shaking the water from him in a silver spray.
He had seen Rattles fly down the Laughing Brook, and so he had just taken it for granted that the home ofRattles must be somewhere down there.
I never knew before how handsome Rattles is," thought Peter.
Rattles remained long enough to catch another little fish, and then with a harsh rattle flew off down the Laughing Brook.
From the Big Hickory-tree on the bank, Rattlesflew out over the Smiling Pool, hovered for an instant, then plunged down head-first.
I've only just found out that Rattles the Kingfisher does.
As evidence of his position or authority, he sent a gourd, to which were attached a few strings of rattles and two plumes, one of which was white and the other red.
Unclose, to teach our seamen how to sift A passage where blue icebergs clash and drift, And the shore loosely rattles in the blast.
Sheet-iron thunder rattled through the place, horns were blown, drums beaten, horse-rattles kept in motion and for more than half an hour pistol shots and flashes of fire kept coming from both sides of the stage.
She sprinkles white sand on the boards from a gilt cornucopia, the music of a piano and three violins strike up, and she rattles her heels and toes through a clog dance.
And in this way the cyclonic agent rattles along, tormenting everybody within hearing distance until he gets ready to go; and when he is gone there is a sigh of relief all around the office.
What do you want to get a case of rattles and scare us all that way for.
Say, don't you ever show up with such a case of rattles again.
Then North West shook his rattles until the great storms came.
Then the Indians, when North West rattles the flaps of the wigwams, and wild animals hide in the shelter of the deep forest, tell their tales.
The only fairy known to Spain appears to be a sort of spiritualistic brownie, who tips over tables and rattles chairs in empty rooms by night.
You can snap the rattles of several snakes together any time you want to give some tourist a thrill.
And they showed somerattles with 30 or 40 joints to them.
Nothing rattles much now; nothing jangles; nothing sings or speaks or squeaks.
Of weather we have all varieties--the hot and the cool, the rain that rattles on the roof, the wind that makes the Wanderer rock, and the occasional thunderstorm.
It may have been that the figures were so well understood that the addition ofrattles in the drawings was quite unnecessary.
It cannot be denied, however, that some or most of the snakes in which norattles appear, are nevertheless intended for rattlers.
It rattles the rusty barriers with gigantic turbulence, and if there be an infirm joint anywhere in the framework, it breaks madly forth, compressing the mischief of a lifetime into a little space.
It may be just a fine specimen which Luke got somewhere long ago, and what rattles about inside when you shake it may be nothing but a pebble, or a bit of hard clay, or anything.
Do you suppose that what rattles about inside is really a bit of lead?
But if a lead pencil gets adrift and rattles in the drawer of your cabin table you are awake in a moment.
You don't call anything a ghost that you can take in your hands and look at in broad daylight, and that rattles when you shake it.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "rattles" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
