rattle-pate

You will become a thorough rattle-pate, a hardened old stager, the fine flour of the talkers ....

The Clouds 2000

I was clean nonplussed, and felt as uncomfortable as a boiling crawfish, but fortunately rattle-pate came to my aid and drowned my confusion in a flood of words.

The Yeoman Adventurer George W. Gough

You will become a thorough rattle-pate, a hardened old stager, the fine flour of the talkers ....

The Eleven Comedies, Volume 1 446? BC-385? BC Aristophanes

For you are married, you and she: and you live, contentedly enough, in a four-square world, where there is the rent and your social obligations and the children's underclothing to be considered, long and long before indulgence in rattle-pate mountain-climbing.

The Cream of the Jest: A Comedy of Evasions 1917

"Aye, 'tis a goodly price for one poor rattle-pate," says Mr. Sutherland.

Lords of the North 1903

"Ye want a broad thumpin ', I'm thinkin', ye rattle-pate, to risk y'r precious noodle here to-night," he whispered, coming forward and fussing about me with all the maternal anxiety of a hen over her only chicken.

Lords of the North 1903

"But when I saw you tucked away behind those palms, flirting with that yellow-headed rattle-pate, I felt that I ought to speak to you."

Patty's Suitors Carolyn Wells 1902

BARBARA HOLABIRD, the rattle-pate of the Holabird sisters in

Character Sketches of Romance, Fiction and the Drama, Vol. 1 A Revised American Edition of the Reader's Handbook Ebenezer Cobham Brewer 1853

If he should chance to fall in your way, do not fail to give the rattle-pate what wholesome advice you can; but remember, I do strictly caution you against lending him money upon any account, for he has every thing but -- principle; he will never pay you; I

Letters of the Late Ignatius Sancho, An African. In Two Volumes. To Which Are Prefixed, Memoirs of His Life, Vol. 1 1780