In her memoir she describes her career as "rackety". From Wordnik.com. [The Guardian World News] Reference
Swede Ralston was always pretty rackety as well as skilled. From Wordnik.com. [Uneasy aftermath (Jack Bog's Blog)] Reference
Mary, it turns out, has led a thoroughly rackety sort of life. From Wordnik.com. [Key concepts for writers] Reference
All have turned out so well, not one of them rackety, you know. From Wordnik.com. [Prairie Farmer, Vol. 56: No. 3, January 19, 1884. A Weekly Journal for the Farm, Orchard and Fireside] Reference
He has been a rackety one, and I fear he is not much better now. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 54, No. 338, December 1843] Reference
We have a very rackety, partisan, sometimes very intrusive press. From Wordnik.com. [Can Climate Change Be Funny?] Reference
He did not stop to speak, but hurried out his rackety little car and was gone. From Wordnik.com. [O. Henry Memorial Award Prize Stories of 1921] Reference
"I like titles," she says with a grin, over coffees in a rackety West End café. From Wordnik.com. [Jo Shapcott: I'm not someone chasing her own ambulance] Reference
You will understand my concern once the more ... rackety gentlemen are included. From Wordnik.com. [A Lady of Expectations]
"Because you add respectability to what are considered to be my rackety ways, Cousin!". From Wordnik.com. [The Outrageous Dowager]
Fallada's writing and rackety lifestyle had resulted more than once in interrogation by the Gestapo. From Wordnik.com. [Sue Arnold's audiobook choice – review] Reference
In these years, he acquired a reputation as a rackety motorist, and was frequently fined by the police. From Wordnik.com. [Farming out little bits of intelligence for little bits of money.] Reference
Caws Ai yam, adn we gotz teh possumz adn rackety coons adn purrsmimons adn cawtin moufs adn snappin turtlols. From Wordnik.com. [GOODYEAR - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger?] Reference
Through the rackety basilica of the Thunderbird, your shortish but shapely legs transport the unmade bed of your heart. From Wordnik.com. [Half Asleep in Frog Pajamas]
A medley of 'spades,' freezing in the fog, basking in the Cythera-summer, rackety and thrilled, lonely and getting nowhere. From Wordnik.com. [Paperback Cover Cavalcade 7] Reference
Within a rackety mis-enscène, an arena of fallen idols, we hear of the death of domesticity and of the daily death of belief. From Wordnik.com. [I'm Laughing But Don't Ask Me Why] Reference
At Frederick they left the big motor bus and got into Wes's own rackety flivver, the possession of which delighted Annie's heart. From Wordnik.com. [O. Henry Memorial Award Prize Stories of 1921] Reference
His neighbors, the Strunk and Garfein couples and their rackety children are the object of George's fears and his satiric vexation. From Wordnik.com. [Sex and the Single Man] Reference
Twenty seconds later the skids sank into the soft sand, the rackety clangour of the motor died away and the blades idled slowly to a stop. From Wordnik.com. [When Eight Bells Toll]
"Of course, William is rather rackety," they said. From Wordnik.com. [The Hero] Reference
"Why, swamped by a pack of rackety French atheists.". From Wordnik.com. [The Gentleman A Romance of the Sea] Reference
He groped for a rock-fragment to hurl up at the rackety collie. From Wordnik.com. [Further Adventures of Lad] Reference
But she was scared at the rackety pack who ballyhooed like Coney. From Wordnik.com. [Ptomaine Street] Reference
Your wings would be flapping all over the place, rackety as anything. From Wordnik.com. [Telegraph.co.uk: news business sport the Daily Telegraph newspaper Sunday Telegraph] Reference
I dare say I'm about as rackety a lot as any you'd pick up near here. From Wordnik.com. [My Friend Smith A Story of School and City Life] Reference
But up close, scenes from rackety old horror films do float through the mind. From Wordnik.com. [The Guardian World News] Reference
Rick Voisey was a rackety, hunting fellow, and "dipped" the old farm up to its thatched roof. From Wordnik.com. [Villa Rubein, and other stories] Reference
"Let's play bridge," said Patty; "that's quiet, and I don't feel like anything rackety-packety.". From Wordnik.com. [Patty's Suitors] Reference
There was a second rackety explosion and a second puff of lightning from the man's out-flung hand. From Wordnik.com. [Further Adventures of Lad] Reference
What had possessed him to give his card to a rackety young fellow, who went about with a thing like that?. From Wordnik.com. [The Forsyte Saga - Complete] Reference
Did he run into debt, or gamble, or swear; was he violent; were his friends rackety; did he stay out at night?. From Wordnik.com. [The Forsyte Saga - Complete] Reference
As we passed the portals of the Arts Building, a noisy, rackety crowd of boys -- evidently, to our eyes, schoolboys. From Wordnik.com. [The Hohenzollerns in America] Reference
'Bob Ridley' is a common rackety slam-bang secular song, one of the rippingest and rantingest and noisiest there is. From Wordnik.com. [Those Extraordinary Twins] Reference
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