rattle-pated

I didn't mind that a bit; I was ready to start enjoying life again, after all the nonsense I'd been through, and to put me in the best fettle there were several letters from Elspeth, in her usual rattle-pated style, full of loving slush about her dear, darling champion whom she was yearning to clasp again to her Loving Bosom (hear! hear! thinks I) when he returned with his Laurels fresh upon his Brow.

Fiancée 2010

He was one of those reckless, rattle-pated, open-hearted, and open-mouthed young gentlemen, who possess the gift of familiarity in its highest perfection, and who scramble carelessly along the journey of life making friends, as the phrase is, wherever they go.

The Lazy Tour of Two Idle Apprentices 2007

And foremost among the laughters was doubtless the rattle-pated Boswell.

The Life of Oliver Goldsmith 2004

This man is no rattle-pated fool, who changes his fancies as readily as he changes his clothes.

Armadale 2003

He is a rattle-pated young fool — one of those noisy, rosy, light-haired, good-tempered men whom I particularly detest.

Armadale 2003

I didn't mind that a bit; I was ready to start enjoying life again, after all the nonsense I'd been through, and to put me in the best fettle there were several letters from Elspeth, in her usual rattle-pated style, full of loving slush about her dear, darling champion whom she was yearning to clasp again to her Loving Bosom (hear! hear! thinks I) when he returned with his Laurels fresh upon his Brow.

Flashman In The Great Game Fraser, George MacDonald, 1925- 1975

I didn't mind that a bit; I was ready to start enjoying life again, after all the nonsense I'd been through, and to put me in the best fettle there were several letters from Elspeth, in her usual rattle-pated style, full of loving slush about her dear, darling champion whom she was yearning to clasp again to her Loving Bosom (hear! hear! thinks I) when he returned with his Laurels fresh upon his Brow.

Flashman In The Great Game Fraser, George MacDonald, 1925- 1975

Frost between that rattle-pated Frankie Taliaferro and her lively self, probably with the laudable intention of seeing whether his face would be permanently disfigured by a smile.

The Love Affairs of an Old Maid Lilian Bell

On our approach to the Barrier, our crew, which consisted of as rattle-pated a set as sailors usually are, were doubly active, obeyed every order with alacrity, and so quietly, that the fall of a pin might have been heard at any part of the ship.

Trade and Travel in the Far East or Recollections of twenty-one years passed in Java, Singapore, Australia and China. G. F. Davidson

It goes to show what a rattle-pated bunch of women they are!

The Sturdy Oak A composite Novel of American Politics by fourteen American authors Mary Heaton Vorse 1920