rattler
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"The four of us -- my husband, our two children, and I were on the bed," when the 7.7-magnitude rattler stuck just north of Flores island at around 5.30 am on Saturday.
From Barron's ● Aug. 16, 2026
The first rattler occurred at a depth of 3.4 miles, and the largest quake was shallower, at 0.1 miles.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 20, 2024
Whatever it was they found it in Boyd Fortin, a 13-year-old with blond locks and the carcass of a rattler in his hands.
From New York Times ● Apr. 25, 2023
On more than one occasion he's found himself under a house or a trailer in the wee hours of darkness tracking down a copperhead or rattler that needs to be moved.
From Scientific American ● Sep. 18, 2022
Once I traveled about in an old bakery wagon, double-doored rattler with a mattress on its floor.
From "Travels with Charley in Search of America" by John Steinbeck
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