rattling

A club seems to him but a piece of straw; he laughs at the rattling of the lance.

For a while we discussed Berlin, the President rattling off a series of ideas which might constitute part of a negotiating position.

It is only the wind shaking the house, rattling the windows, banging a piece of iron on the roof and making her bed tremble.

Trams were still the main means of transportation in the city. They were old and rickety things, rattling leisurely along at a snail's pace.

Considered among the finest in a nation rattling with exquisite ceramics, Hagi techniques fittingly turn out to be foreign.

So they do a bit of sabre-rattling but mostly let their companies use tax havens to suit their needs.

It had served "mud pie" to be eaten out of a skull, featured rattling chandeliers, smoke pumped down from the ceiling and moving paintings.

So are officials' saber-rattling claims that some day China's economy will thrive enough to threaten that of the United States.

Our window was right above the kitchen so there was a constant smell of fish coming in as well as a rattling of dishes that never stopped.

And to hear the rattling of that train over the iron bridge is as important as to hear the voice of the bird.

He took advantage of the Apollo not paying attention, "rattling" love of the arrows at the Apollo.

After several minutes of the windows sliding up and down and tools rattling, the handyman appeared at the end of the hall.

Diplomats say the North miscalculated in its sabre-rattling and found even China was more rigorous in implementing sanctions than before.

The horse's hoof rattling away is only a beautiful mistake that I have rattled away, even, I am the transient guest, I have never been here.

his footstep was heard one moment in the corridor, then the rattling of his carriage-wheels as he was driven rapidly away.

Two developers in their respective territory, Sabre-rattling, and began operating as a property across the western two pillars.

A woman once told him his voice sounded like broken stones rattling in a cage.

Today, falling oil prices are rattling investors who fear that this is a sign that the global recovery has come off the rails.

It is possible that North Korea's hardline sabre-rattling shines a spotlight onto internal power struggles inside the hermit kingdom.

And is the relationship in danger from the wind of change rattling Egypt and the wider Arab world?

The night is dark, and the wind whispers softly, touching the trees and houses, rattling a window pane here and there.

Clouds covered the moon, and the wind was whistling down the chimney and rattling the shutters of the town house.

Everywhere you turn, you see him: climbing down a chimney, rocking in a chair and rattling along on his sleigh.

If this were a made-up story, it would begin at night, with a storm blowing and owls hooting and rattling noises under the bed.

The shaking and rattling of pumps might not be noticeable while hauling a few tons of trash or slogging from one bus stop to the next.

Despite the saber rattling, most union leaders are not inclined to call for general strikes or mass pickets.

It has run headlong, however, into the paradigm-rattling change in female possibility over the past several generations.

Two factors in particular are rattling markets at the moment when it comes to the euro zone crisis.

And for those who are rattling the cages to get out, an escape network of sorts has sprung up.

Some on the right were concerned that she would not be tough enough on issues such as North Korea's sabre-rattling.

Some of the old questions, though, are still rattling around like skeletons in a cupboard.

They finished rattling down and went ashore.

The coincidence of the two shows exemplifies the glitzy entertainment and sabre-rattling that are so close in Kremlin ideology.

Now she in it, can't change it, she keeps her mind on her wages. The only rattling cages!

Moment , all was quiet , Kingston rivers flow, leaving only Heaven and Earth beating heart rattling sound, like a war drum !

About midnight, while we still sat up, the storm came rattling over the Heights in full fury.

The conflicts are linked; Pakistan has moved troops from its western tribal regions to the east in response to Indian sabre-rattling.

And metaphor keeps the mind shaking, rattling and rolling, long after Elvis has left the building.

At that high altitude, suddenly, very close to you was a rattler, shrilly rattling his tail, giving a warning.

But if Beijing follows through on some of its sabre-rattling, it could lead to a cascade of tactical adjustments on how to deal with China.

His handcart is still rattling along though it was oiled yesterday.

But European leaders, says the IMF, have made things worse by rattling the markets with "mixed messages" over restructuring Greek debt.

For all the sabre-rattling North Korea has been doing these days, precious little is known about daily life in the isolated nation.

Congressional saber rattling notwithstanding, China is likely to continue to get away with reforming only slowly.

And the North's recent nuclear and missile saber-rattling has many growing nervous about the potential for a resumption of hostilities.

Some U. S. politicians paint China to be a saber-rattling belligerent.

Much of the attention has been negative, rattling the nerves of buy-out executives more accustomed to conducting business in private.

Just as pertinently, Beijing's penchant for sabre-rattling is not cost free.

This amounted to "a rattling tip-top puff, " Mark Twain assured his publisher, "which will go into every newspaper in the country. "

My wants were few and simple, so that in less than the time stated I was in a cab with my valise, rattling away to Paddington Station.

The windows were rattling in the wind.

Markets have become largely inured to saber-rattling by North Korea but it has in the past caused brief jitters that were quickly reversed.

Eg. The windows are rattling in the wind.

Leaving Homs on a quiet day, we spot tanks rumbling down the highway and rattling trucks of soldiers on the move.

There was a large , low-ceiling room, with clacking, rattling machines.

To judge by the gale rattling the Arab world this week, he may have to answer such questions rather soon.

Recent statements by Chinese officials about moving into special drawing rights , gold or whatever else , are thus largely sabre rattling .

South Korean officials initially saw the sabre-rattling as an effort to test inexperienced presidents in Seoul and Washington.

The traditional Chinese Medicine think asthma is a disease which repeatedly fit rattling in the throat, tachypnea, shortness of breath.

Forecasting exactly where and when an earthquake will happen is a rumor which makes the public rattling at present.

Recent renewed sabre-rattling over US missile defence plans may be a foretaste.

Every morning, upon waking, she lifts the receiver and listens to whispering and rustling and rattling, as at a window.

This is not sabre-rattling. He has made serious proposals for a reserve currency to rival the greenback and he deserves a hearing.

But China has so far responded mildly to America's sabre-rattling on trade.

Their children went abroad one by one. They were just rattling around in their big house.

SomeBody is rattling the door handle.

The new, adjustable top clamp better accommodates smaller bottle sizes in less space and minimizes annoying bottle rattling.

With the Pirate Bay facing its strongest challenge yet, its administrators have not stopped rattling their cutlasses.

It was a rattling time spending in the kindergarten for four years!

Noticeable shaking of indoor items, rattling noises. Significant damage unlikely.

Outside the rattling windows there was a restless whispering wind.

Chinese naval honor guard. China's navy has grown more assertive in recent years, rattling the nerves of maritime neighbors.

The clank of the wooden spoon hitting his rings had played in unison with the change rattling in the teapot.

"Eat, Kanchi. " said Mitthu, rattling the rice ladle over the pot, annoyed at her own fright.

As a response we're saber rattling with our Naval muscle in the south China Sea and Korean Peninsula.

The euro crisis is rattling markets and economies around the world.

Every now and then I'm enjoying a dish and someone across the table from me starts rattling on and on about how horrible it is.

To make a rattling or clattering sound, especially by rushing or scampering.

With feelings so high, policymakers in Brussels and Washington are also rattling their sabres.

Courfeyrac had seized it, and was brandishing it, mingling with his arguments the rattling of this sheet of paper.

Trucks and vans were rattling in a noisy line and everywhere men were shielding themselves as best they could.

The verbal sabre rattling by US Treasury Secretary Geithner is a threat to the open global trading system.

It is like rattling some potsherds in a room and then locking it up.

ghostly light on the tortured face . her hoarse loud breath rattling in horror , while all prayed on their knees.

In rail, where Siemens had fallen badly behind, it is now rattling along.

Only today I wish I didn't have only eleven years rattling inside me like pennies in a tin Band-Aid box.

One analyst said prices could top 150 dollars a barrel by the fourth of July, also rattling traders, rising tensions in the Middle East.

But they're also pushing the already frothy valuations of some companies even higher and rattling the clubby venture-capital scene.

Findings announced in the past two weeks are rattling the foundations of anthropology and raising some startling possibilities.

brother heard his sister back, busy rattling, sharpening butcher to slaughter sheep.

The new fish are marched in. Guards unlock the shackles. The chains drop away, rattling to the stone floor.

Another prominent explanation of North Korea's behaviour is that its nuclear sabre-rattling is meant for a domestic audience.

Seven months after its first attack on Niger's army, the Niger Movement for Justice (MNJ) is rattling Mr Tandja.

A bitter sleet came rattling against us here on the east wind, and Joe took me on his back.

This time India has shown admirable forbearance. There has been remonstrance but no sabre-rattling.

But as worldwide condemnation pours in, there is also the recognition that the test goes beyond the saber-rattling of Pyongyang.

When we came near to beitou, a few only son from wild ducks suddenly fly up, rattling exclaim voice stacatto.

They can be played by stamping with the feet, shaking, rattling, hitting with another object, banging or scraping together, or plucking.

Chink: a slight, metallic sound, As of coins rattling in a pocket.

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.

Quiet, you savages! Stop your rattling. You're affecting my cogitation.

So a drive to Homs is a bone-rattling struggle down dirt roads, criss-crossing fields.

Once, I'm sceezer books, listening to the " rattling or " a crisp sound, this book is from the 2I6 page entirely broken into two volumes.

exclaimed she , rattling away at the instrument.

The sailors finished rattling down before going ashore.

They're just saber-rattling. They think we're amassing weapons near the border and they're posturing.

The old car is still rattling on.

The rattlesnake can produce rattling sound .

This sounds terrifying. But the Chinese have been rattling sabres over Taiwan for decades.

His sons nudged it and was surprized how heavy it was. They kicked it and heard a rattling inside.

About Dad rattling around in that big house alone and how you hoped he starved.

Under the rules of the mettlesome, you rattling never undergo.

I could hear their feet rattling up our old stairs.

And he is rattling a lot of fellow Shias with his powers of patronage and purse.

The typewriter was rattling away so loudly that we could not fall asleep.

One screw is loose in the luggage compartment. As a result, an unpleasant rattling noise bothers me.

Before I had time to doze off again, I was disturbed by a rattling of plates and dishes in the servant's hall.

A slowdown in China's bank lending helped drive down the country's stock market sharply last month, rattling global investors.

a brisk walk in the park; a lively gait; a merry chase; traveling at a rattling rate; a snappy pace; a spanking breeze.

They went out into the bright, merry sunlight, and had to raise their voices because of the rattling of the wheels on the pavement.

When an older jackdaw sees a dog, it makes a loud rattling sound.

make a hoarse, rattling sound.

Something you said keeps rattling around in my frontal lobe.

I finally managed to cure the rattling noise in my car.

At one point you hear a rattling noise, assume its an enemy only for a rat to jump out and scutter away.

Saber rattling that set the stage for war.

There are two cases of apparatus with contents rattling.

The head nurse from 6-North pushed a rattling "crash cart" into the room and started attaching EKG leads.

The national debt is set to reach a market-rattling $12 trillion by 2015, more than double what it was when Mr Obama took over.

A series of quick rattling or clicking sounds.

The teeth-rattling volatility of late 2008 is back.

Hailstone are rattling on the window-panes.

Eg. I heard a rattling noise.

a swift carriage , of a dark night , is rattling with four horses over roads that one can ' t see.

He added: "This is not sabre-rattling. "

Who is rattling the door handle?

What is that rattling in your pocket?

"We like to travel when we can, " said one, rattling off a list of destinations from Paris to Guilin in China.

The windows were rattling in the wind. =The wind rattled the windows

Influence of Errors of a Gear pair on Rattling Threshold Speed of a Gear System with Time-varying Meshing Stiffness

The Influence of Speed and Mass Unbalance on Dynamic Characteristics of a Gear-Rattling System

Rattling electric pump rotor may be uneven, or combination of bad coupling, bearings wear bending;

Dynamic Response of a Gear Rattling System

Application of glide non-rattling for multiple-story house

rattle: shake and cause to make a rattling noise

Study on the Dynamic Behavior of Rattling in Gear System with Clutch

On High Speed Impact and Low Speed Contact in Gear Rattling

A Model for Rattling Analysis in Gear System

Trunk rattling like two midgets in the back seat wrasling