"Uh-" he said, cleverly, telling his rattled nerves that this had not been an attack and he didn't need all that adrenalin, thank you.

But now, in these times of rattled nerves, Mr. Quinn said, the landlords are changing their minds.

She tried to simulate rattled nerves and was surprised to discover that she had them for real.

Instead she stroked forward, breathing deeply to calm her rattled nerves.

It just came over me, maybe from rattled nerves.

He consciously relaxed his neck and shoulder muscles, hoping to calm his rattled nerves as well.

Nick tried to calm his rattled nerves, willing himself to relax his clenched jaw and hands.

Meanwhile the wives go to the cinema to calm their rattled nerves...and what should they see but a newsreel of the convention in which their husbands are prominently featured!

She sat up, stretching cramped muscles and forcing herself to breathe deeply and slowly in an attempt to calm her rattled nerves.

After Greene's manner, the kindly old captain whom she'd known for years soothed her rattled nerves.