rattlebrained

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Through a rattlebrained friend of theirs, one Nancy Spencer, they agree to take a boy from the Hopeton

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  • "That isn't all she's got," Monk said cheerfully Doc Savage devoted considerable thought to Susie during the southward trip, without reaching much of a conclusion as to whether she was rattlebrained or had keen intelligence. —  163 - The Exploding Lake
  • Why, Jack, Jack, what a thoughtless, rattlebrained chap you are. —  Jack Harkaway's Boy Tinker Among The Turks Book Number Fifteen in the Jack Harkaway Series
  • Through a rattlebrained friend of theirs, one Nancy Spencer, they agree to take a boy from the Hopeton —  Why the Chimes Rang: A Play in One Act
  • "But I am afraid you are glorifying two rattlebrained chaps who should be in a home for imbeciles instead of in the castle their audacity might have blighted. —  Graustark
 

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