rattlings

It was quiet, except for the faint rattlings of some small animal in the bushes and the swish of our pant legs through the long, wet grass.

Ancient, Strange, and Lovely Susan Fletcher 2010

I heard the creaking of ropes, the rattlings of chains.

Ancient, Strange, and Lovely Susan Fletcher 2010

I occassionally write email in the toilet cubicles at work, and judging from the rattlings of mobile phone straps, so do quite a few of my colleagues.

Men’s bad habits that disillusion women 2008

This has worked for them in the past, the saber-rattlings and shrill threats, so it's no surprise that they are at it again; if you are a puffer fish, you puff up when you sense danger, but you have to wonder about the sanity of those in charge in that benighted land.

Archive 2010-07-01 Steve Perry 2010

Then there was a consonance to split the drums of the world's ears, followed by a horrific rattlings as of actual artillery – tens of thousands of gun-carriages simultaneously at the gallop, colliding, crashing, heeling over in the blackness.

A truly soggy boat race Tim Radford 2010

This has worked for them in the past, the saber-rattlings and shrill threats, so it's no surprise that they are at it again; if you are a puffer fish, you puff up when you sense danger, but you have to wonder about the sanity of those in charge in that benighted land.

Saber Rattling Steve Perry 2010

She tried to make me bleed by the rattlings of her tongue

Blind Willie McTell Lyrics 2009

The streets would be full of the rattlings and squeaks of semi maintained bikes.

Cheeseburger Gothic » Pepsi Challenge. London after the Wave. 2009

Then some waxed indignant about the domestic spying, the takeover of State and municipal law enforcement to suppress of dissent, the covert destabilizations of legitimately elected South American and African democracies, and the anti-Russia and - Iran saber-rattlings that now, on the eve of the "election," seem such clear signs of impending world war.

Oil, or What? Life After Capitalism 2008

But I rather think these rattlings and these jerks are neither proposals nor entailments, but rather merely contingencies.

On/In 2008