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  • The helmsman on the Rattler is shot, Glass pulls the wheel over and the bow of the schooner heads in for the Rock.

    “Have you lived? What have you got to show for it?” 2008

  • She was married at the registrar's office to that man Jones, whom they call the Rattler, and went off with him.

    That Stick Charlotte Mary Yonge 1862

  • My high school wrestling coach saddled me with Badger, and my college coach hung the moniker Rattler, but those were both very contextual nicknames and never left the wrestling venue-facts for which I am pretty grateful.

    Clovis News Journal : News 2009

  • Rhett Reese: There’s this great moment where this thing called the Rattler, which is this huge thing, pendulum-type device that has all these seats around the outside and it swings back and forth and the seats turn.

    Screenwriters Paul Wernick and Rhett Reese On Set Interview ZOMBIELAND – Collider.com 2009

  • Rhett Reese: There’s this great moment where this thing called the Rattler, which is this huge thing, pendulum-type device that has all these seats around the outside and it swings back and forth and the seats turn.

    Zombieland On Set Interview: Writers/Producers Paul Wenick and Rhett Reese | /Film 2009

  • Climbing on board the Rattler were the men and the Huahine women who had been hidden in the Valetta's cabin and who had swum for it under the protecting fire.

    THE DEVILS OF FUATINO 2010

  • Climbing on board the Rattler were the men and the Huahine women who had been hidden in the Valetta's cabin and who had swum for it under the protecting fire.

    The Devils of Fuatino 1912

  • Ida knew that Sam Jones, alias Rattler, was going out to join his brother in Canada, and that

    That Stick Charlotte Mary Yonge 1862

  • That's an uncomfortable discussion for a community like FAMU's, popularly called Rattler Nation, which overcame harsh Jim Crow discrimination and neglect to make its school a topflight institution - named college of the year by TIME in 1997.

    TIME.com: Top Stories 2011

  • After this we have "Rattler" by Gene Wolfe & Brian Hopkins.

    September 13th, 2008 douglascohen 2008

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