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Examples
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I began to talk quietly, calling him a rattle-head and a disturber of the peace.
Secret of the Woods William Joseph Long 1909
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Sam Hunniwell, and his stuck-up rattle-head of a daughter, and that
Shavings Joseph Crosby Lincoln 1907
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The young man who called himself a friend of Henri de Marsay was a rattle-head who had come from the provinces, and whom the young men then in fashion were teaching the art of running through an inheritance; but he had one last leg to stand on in his province, in the shape of a secure establishment.
The Girl with the Golden Eyes Honor�� de Balzac 1824
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The young man who called himself a friend of Henri de Marsay was a rattle-head who had come from the provinces, and whom the young men then in fashion were teaching the art of running through an inheritance; but he had one last leg to stand on in his province, in the shape of a secure establishment.
The Thirteen Honor�� de Balzac 1824
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