Definitions
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- noun Plural form of
rattlesnake .
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Examples
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His favorite stunt, when he isn't collecting rattlesnakes, is to wait for a forty-mile-an-hour breeze, and then get up and walk on the parapet of a skyscraper -- on the lee side, mind you, so that if he blows off there's nothing to fetch him up but the street.
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A studio-lit person waist deep in rattlesnakes juggling flaming chainsaws is allowed to look off axis if they must.
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His favorite stunt, when he isn't collecting rattlesnakes, is to wait for a forty-mile-an-hour breeze, and then get up and walk on the parapet of a skyscraper -- on the lee side, mind you, so that if he blows off there's nothing to fetch him up but the street.
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The populace might be blind or dumb, the "rattlesnakes" -- the
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Closely related to the rattlesnakes are the true moccasins, of which there are two species, one being the cotton-mouth or water-moccasin
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The rattlesnakes are the companions of the sorcerers and watch to meet them and then talk with them.
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There were two men called rattlesnakes, their bodies naked and curiously painted, resembling that reptile; each holding a rattle in one hand and a bunch of wild sage in the other.
O-kee-pa, a Religious Ceremony, and Other Customs of the Mandans
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The place is known as the rattlesnakes 'den to this day, though there are none there now, I believe.
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The rattlesnakes were the most dangerous creatures.
Modern Skepticism: A Journey Through the Land of Doubt and Back Again A Life Story
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He likes places exposed, with natural predators such as rattlesnakes and bears and bobcats.
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