There was not only the roll of the heavy guns and mortars, but the sharp rattle of musketry, and the hiss of the huge rocket, as it cut through the air with its brilliant light, sounded in our ears.

All at once, there comes the sudden rattle of iron, at my feet.

Thus the hours between two and seven passed when I fell into a fitful sleep, from which I was rudely wakened by a loud rattle at my door, followed by the entrance of the officer who had walked up and down the corridor all night.

Leafless trees stretched their ice-covered tentacles into the cold, penetrating air; pedestrians and horses slipped on the glassy pavements; automobiles either skidded dangerously or set up an incessant rattle with their chains.

The yellow rattle has been assigned to St. Peter, and the Primula veris, from its resemblance to a bunch of keys, is St. Peter's wort.

You hear that steady rattle, and then you hear bullets everywhere.

A distant rattle indicated a steam-tram going to the port.

At times, the metallic rattle of a dog's chain, sounded faintly.

The ridge just hid the shells as they struck, but we could see the smoke from each, now a tall black column, like the "Jack Johnsons" of the west, now a yellowish cloud that hung long afterward like fogand with it the continuous rattle of infantry fire.

They could hear the dogs move with a faint rattle of chains.

A shout followed them, a roar that ended in a harsh rattle of curses; they heard the spat of bullets several times on the trees past which they whirled.

She has been very busy of late, for Checkered Cloud is one of the medicine women of the Dahcotahs; and as the Indians have had a good deal of sickness among them, you might follow her from teepee to teepee, as she proceeds with the sacred rattle [Footnote: Sacred rattle.

It yielded instantly, sliding up several inches with a wheezy rattle that brought my heart into my mouth.

The blacksmith, with the uplifted hoe, its sharp blade gleaming in the sunlight, peered cautiously among the collards and tomato plants, listening all the while for the ominous rattle, but found nothing.

Castanets are small wooden rattles, made in the shape of two bowls or cups, fitted together, and tied by a string, and then fastened to the thumbs.

There is silence for a while, unbroken save by the crackle of blazing logs and occasional rattle of driving sleet against the window-panes.

Then, for the first time, thrilled in Mr. Bernard's ears the dreadful sound that nothing which breathes can hear unmovedthe long, singing whir, as the huge, thick-bodied reptile shook his many-jointed rattle.

The faint, unmistakable rattle of a wagon driven rapidly, came towards them.

The boys, seated at marble-topped tables, were making a hideous rattle with their forks and tin cups, while one of their schoolfellows, seated at the desk in the middle of the great room, was reading aloud, as the regulations direct, a passage from Rollin's Ancient History.

Who says it'll be the last time she'll be ahead of us?" Along the beautiful line of brown, swinging bodies went a low growl, a more vicious rattle of the oarlocks.

"Oh, to hear the hoarse rattle of the anchor chains!"

By-and-by they slept,two of them outside, by the fire,Falardeau inside the wigwam, the repose of which was broken by the hollow rattle of his drunken breath.

There was soon an effort to vomit, succeeded by the fearful death rattle that comes but once in human life.

The pretty Creature her Neice does all she can to be as disagreeable as her Aunt; and if she is not as offensive to the Eye, she is quite as much to the Ear, and makes up all she wants in a confident Air, by a nauseous Rattle of the Nose, when the Snuff is delivered, and the Fingers make the Stops and Closes on the Nostrils.

The dull rattle of the rain on the glass above her continued, but a little livid light was appearing as a gust of wind carried off the clouds.