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‘Yonder battlements’, all the old rattle-traps acquired modernity, reality, spoken by those voices.
Collected Works of W. B. Yeats Volume III Autobiographies W.B. Yeats 1965
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‘Yonder battlements’, all the old rattle-traps acquired modernity, reality, spoken by those voices.
Collected Works of W. B. Yeats Volume III Autobiographies W.B. Yeats 1965
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‘Yonder battlements’, all the old rattle-traps acquired modernity, reality, spoken by those voices.
Collected Works of W. B. Yeats Volume III Autobiographies W.B. Yeats 1965
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‘Yonder battlements’, all the old rattle-traps acquired modernity, reality, spoken by those voices.
Collected Works of W. B. Yeats Volume III Autobiographies W.B. Yeats 1965
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‘Yonder battlements’, all the old rattle-traps acquired modernity, reality, spoken by those voices.
Autobiographies W.B. Yeats 1965
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‘Yonder battlements’, all the old rattle-traps acquired modernity, reality, spoken by those voices.
Autobiographies W.B. Yeats 1965
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''Tis only one o' them tin Turkish rattle-traps, 'said Bill with a pitying air.
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All their mysterious rattle-traps and whirligigs, -- their curls and networks and crimples and rimples and crisping-pins, -- their little absurdities, if you will, -- have to me a sort of charm, like the tricks and stammerings of a curly-headed child.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 17, No. 102, April, 1866 Various
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I certainly never saw such rusty old rattle-traps, and I do not except the king's equipage, since the hackney landaus have been abolished in England.
A Yacht Voyage to Norway, Denmark, and Sweden 2nd edition William A. Ross
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"Men like plenty of room for their rattle-traps; don't you think that ought to satisfy me?"
Eight Cousins Louisa May Alcott 1860
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