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1  I could hear his teeth rattle in his head, but he had not yet surrendered.
Treasure Island By Robert Louis Stevenson
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2  Little did I suppose that he was a deadly enemy and that the noise was the famous rattle.
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3  I could hear their feet rattling up our old stairs, so that the house must have shook with it.
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4  So near were we, indeed, that my head came against the coxswain's foot with a crack that made my teeth rattle.
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5  And I was a civil, pious boy, and could rattle off my catechism that fast, as you couldn't tell one word from another.
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6  FROM the side of the hill, which was here steep and stony, a spout of gravel was dislodged and fell rattling and bounding through the trees.
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7  Quick as thought, I sprang into the mizzen shrouds, rattled up hand over hand, and did not draw a breath till I was seated on the cross-trees.
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8  The evening breeze had sprung up, and though it was well warded off by the hill with the two peaks upon the east, the cordage had begun to sing a little softly to itself and the idle sails to rattle to and fro.
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9  Then it struck sharp on the inn door, and then we could hear the handle being turned and the bolt rattling as the wretched being tried to enter; and then there was a long time of silence both within and without.
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10  He had risen from his position to his hands and knees, and though his leg obviously hurt him pretty sharply when he moved--for I could hear him stifle a groan--yet it was at a good, rattling rate that he trailed himself across the deck.
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11  He seemed under no apprehension, though he must have known that his life, among these treacherous demons, depended on a hair; and he rattled on to his patients as if he were paying an ordinary professional visit in a quiet English family.
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