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All in the sound of a high wind, broken now and then with a rain blattering even-down, and soaking through tartan and _clo-dubh_ we at it for dear life.

John Splendid The Tale of a Poor Gentleman, and the Little Wars of Lorn Neil Munro

I left that holiday quay and its folk, and took with me a prayer which might go far to brace me to support the blattering of goats, if that, too, should be my luck even when in solitude.

Waiting for Daylight 1915

Their heroic thoughts are blattering through penny trumpets.

Waiting for Daylight 1915

A group of tumblers on the stage are going through some supple contortions to the sound of a shrill little pipe and a blattering wooden drum, playing out of time with one another.

In Seven Stages: A Flying Trip Around the World 1891

Fuzzy wriggled himself into an ingratiatory attitude and essayed the idiotic smile and blattering small talk that is supposed to charm the budding intellect of the young.

Strictly business: more stories of the four million O. Henry 1886

Sand and sea teem with vitality; -- over all the dunes there is a constant susurration, a blattering and swarming of crustacea; -- through all the sea there is a ceaseless play of silver lightning, -- flashing of myriad fish.

Chita: a Memory of Last Island Lafcadio Hearn 1877

It is amusing to ignorance, amazing to credulity, and insulting to intelligence, to hear them in their blattering efforts to mystify

The Impending Crisis of the South: How to Meet It 1857

What a blattering on the windows, and what a cannonading on the battlements!

Recreations of Christopher North, Volume 2 John Wilson 1819

It’s positively blattering down, and has got quite windy and cold.

Got rain? 2008

"Weel," continued Saunders, imperturbably taking up the thread of his narrative amid the blattering of the snow, "I let the lad rin on i 'this way for a while, an' then says I, 'Walter, ye dinna ask after yer faither!'

Bog-Myrtle and Peat Tales Chiefly of Galloway Gathered from the Years 1889 to 1895 1887