Some months ago they came from no one knows where, in an old rattletrap wagon drawn by a bony white horse.
I'd ask you to ride with us but my rattletrap will only hold four.
Then, acting out the words by a little strutting, they sang lustily: "Two cowboys who were brave and bold Took two girls in a rattletrap old.
The rattletrap followed the long causeway which crossed the salt-marsh and the San Sebastian River.
The sun being intensely powerful, we called a halt at a village named Waka, perched among the rocks, where we found a rattletrap of a baradurree, which saved us the trouble of pitching our tents.
Thad assured him; “but I hope we have better luck than with an old rattletrap affair we got hold of along the Rhine when we heard war had broken out and tried to break through the lines so as to reach Antwerp.
He stopped for no further comment but went jingling off in his rattletrap cart, the cloud of dust raised by his old horse's clumsy feet hanging long in the air behind him.
But folks didn't laugh at the boy who persistently patched up the rattletrap and drove it.
And all the while, like the other half of a dual personality, his hands and feet mechanically guided his rattletrapold truck along the ruts of the lonesome country road.
Chapter XXII Rescued For a moment Ned and Mr. Damon gazed at the farmer in his rattletrap of an auto, and then they looked at the fluttering piece of paper in his hand.
Just then the rattletrap pulled up at the sidewalk, the wheels of the near side in four inches of mud, and the Captain leaped out and spread the umbrella.
The Rattletrap itself had tried to run before the gale, but I had put on the brake and stopped it.
So the voyage of the good schooner Rattletrap was ended.
Illustration: Grandpa Oldberry Presages Disaster] All of this work took several days, but when it was done the Rattletrap was ready for the voyage, and we decided to start the next morning.
It was a beautiful morning a little after the middle of September that the Rattletrap got away and left Prairie Flower behind.
Illustration: The Rattletrap in the Storm] But the weather in the morning gave us more concern than did the foraging of the ancient Blacky.
I'll label my cans 'Jack's Celebrated Rattletrap Pancakes--Warranted Free from Injurious Substances.
We were not long in getting out, and discovered that the Rattletrap was capsized in the mill-race.
Of course theRattletrap wasn't a boat which sailed on the water, though I don't know as I thought to mention this before.
It would be a joke if we got snowed in somewhere, and had to live in the Rattletrap till spring.
It was a little after noon when we drove into Deadwood--the last point outward bound at which the Rattletrapexpected to touch.
None of you know anything of me beyond what I have told you myself; but I don't think any one of you will imagine I'm a man who would try to ring in a swindle on you when I bought the old rattletrap down there?
I've bought the oldrattletrap because I believe there's a lot of life in the old girl yet, and I'm going to spend all the money I have in putting her in order and getting some new gear up from Brisbane or Sydney.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "rattletrap" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: carcass; hulk; ruin; shaky; skeleton; wobbly; wreck
