Sentence examples for rattler from inspiring English sources

He had a rattlesnake head on the band of it killed by himself, so he said and he might tell you that as a token of affection he'd put a rattler in your pocket and ask you for a match.He looked like a Texas cowboy, and that was what he was, with a big spread of acres and many head of registered longhorn cattle.

Mr Sager, intrigued, walked over and touched the weary rattler.

In going into trance, as well as in mystical combat and healing ceremonies, the shaman uses certain objects such as a drum, drumstick, headgear, gown, metal rattler, mirror, and staff.

The other three species belong to a more primitive genus, Sistrurus, which includes the North American massasauga (S. catenatus) and pygmy rattler (S. miliarius).

I've shot seventeen, but I'm at the foot of the canyon and there must be a rattler den up in back".

It is likely that the odd animal — a packhorse, a hog, a rattler, a recalcitrant steer, perhaps, or a mountain lion — took a go at distressing them.

Churchill was a late-Victorian sabre-rattler and Roosevelt seems to have once made a prejudicial comment about Jews.

The sabre has the edge, literally, on the épée and the foil; hits from those are administered with the point, whereas the sabre-rattler can score with a slice of her cutting edge or the flat back of the blade.

Every time this issue comes up, every time some pundit or politician starts in about the goodness of national service, I think of that old saber-rattler Dick Cheney, who cited "other priorities" when asked why he didn't serve.

Garnett had 13 — he took only seven shots — but his only basket in overtime was huge, a rim-rattler from the right baseline for an 88-86 lead.

The fiery red head was in everything, pulling off a series of monster hits, including a bone-rattler on Rabbitohs star Sam Burgess, and scoring a try as the Roosters scored their first victory of the NRL season at ANZ Stadium.