1 I could hear his teeth rattle in his head, but he had not yet surrendered.
2 Little did I suppose that he was a deadly enemy and that the noise was the famous rattle.
3 I could hear their feet rattling up our old stairs, so that the house must have shook with it.
4 So near were we, indeed, that my head came against the coxswain's foot with a crack that made my teeth rattle.
5 And I was a civil, pious boy, and could rattle off my catechism that fast, as you couldn't tell one word from another.
6 FROM the side of the hill, which was here steep and stony, a spout of gravel was dislodged and fell rattling and bounding through the trees.
7 Quick as thought, I sprang into the mizzen shrouds, rattled up hand over hand, and did not draw a breath till I was seated on the cross-trees.
8 The evening breeze had sprung up, and though it was well warded off by the hill with the two peaks upon the east, the cordage had begun to sing a little softly to itself and the idle sails to rattle to and fro.
9 Then it struck sharp on the inn door, and then we could hear the handle being turned and the bolt rattling as the wretched being tried to enter; and then there was a long time of silence both within and without.
10 He had risen from his position to his hands and knees, and though his leg obviously hurt him pretty sharply when he moved--for I could hear him stifle a groan--yet it was at a good, rattling rate that he trailed himself across the deck.
11 He seemed under no apprehension, though he must have known that his life, among these treacherous demons, depended on a hair; and he rattled on to his patients as if he were paying an ordinary professional visit in a quiet English family.