Definition of Rattling

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Definition of Rattling
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Rattling Quotations

Advertising is the rattling of a stick inside a swill bucket.
George Orwell

To be human is to keep rattling the bars of the cage of existence, hollering, 'What's it for?'
Robert Fulghum

My argument is that War makes rattling good history; but Peace is poor reading.
Thomas Hardy

Small debts are like small shot; they are rattling on every side, and can scarcely be escaped without a wound: great debts are like cannon; of loud noise, but little danger.
Samuel Johnson

It scares you: all the noise, the rattling, the shaking. But the look on everybody's face when you're finished and packing, it's the best smile in the world; and there's nobody hurt, and the well's under control.
Red Adair

Men are freest when they are most unconscious of freedom. The shout is a rattling of chains, always was.
David Herbert Lawrence

The author O. Henry taught me about the value of the unexpected. He once wrote about the noise of flowers and the smell of birds - the birds were chickens and the flowers dried sunflowers rattling against a wall.
Chuck Jones

Ned made a tremendous rattling, at which Bullet took fright, broke his bridle, and dashed off in grand style; and would have stopped all farther negotiations by going home in disgust, had not a traveller arrested him and brought him back; but Kit did not move.
Augustus Baldwin Longstreet

At sunset we are rattling through the streets of the little town of Cordova.
Edward Burnett Tylor

Down the mine I dreamed of cricket; I bowled imaginery balls in the dark; I sent the stumps spinning and heard them rattling in the tunnels. No mishap was going to stop me from bowling in the real game, especially this one.
Harold Larwood

Rattling Translations

rattling in German is gerassel, rasselnd, scheppernd
rattling in Swedish is skramlande

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