rackety
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When the memoirs of Miss Pamela Andrews appeared, the future biographer of her doubly supposititious brother was a not very young man of thirty- three, who had written a good many not very good plays, had contributed to periodicals, and had done a little work at the Bar, besides living, at least till his marriage and it may be feared later, an exceedingly " rackety life.
George Saintsbury in "The English Novel". -
The Toys, who had been much amused by the relation of the Rocking Horse, more particularly by the grave manner in which he spoke, to which his very rackety and dilapidated appearance lent a ludicrous effort, now thanked him very heartily for his story, and proceeded to call on the Skipping- rope for the next story.
Frances Freeling Broderip in "Tales of the Toys, Told by Themselves". -
Seem like this room's awful rackety the fire a- poppin' an' tumblin', an' me breathin' like a porpoise.
Ruth McEnery Stuart in "Sonny, A Christmas Guest".