All 9 Uses of
rant
in
Mansfield Park
- I feel as if I could be anything or everything; as if I could rant and storm, or sigh or cut capers, in any tragedy or comedy in the English language.†
Chpt 13
- Let us have no ranting tragedies.†
Chpt 14 *
- Mr. Yates was particularly pleased: he had been sighing and longing to do the Baron at Ecclesford, had grudged every rant of Lord Ravenshaw's, and been forced to re-rant it all in his own room.†
Chpt 14
- Mr. Yates was particularly pleased: he had been sighing and longing to do the Baron at Ecclesford, had grudged every rant of Lord Ravenshaw's, and been forced to re-rant it all in his own room.†
Chpt 14
- To do him justice, however, he did not resolve to appropriate it; for remembering that there was some very good ranting-ground in Frederick, he professed an equal willingness for that.†
Chpt 14
- She knew that Mr. Yates was in general thought to rant dreadfully; that Mr. Yates was disappointed in Henry Crawford; that Tom Bertram spoke so quick he would be unintelligible; that Mrs. Grant spoiled everything by laughing; that Edmund was behindhand with his part, and that it was misery to have anything to do with Mr. Rushworth, who was wanting a prompter through every speech.†
Chpt 18
- He stepped to the door, rejoicing at that moment in having the means of immediate communication, and, opening it, found himself on the stage of a theatre, and opposed to a ranting young man, who appeared likely to knock him down backwards.†
Chpt 19
- A poor honourable is no catch, and I cannot imagine any liking in the case, for take away his rants, and the poor baron has nothing.†
Chpt 40
- If his rents were but equal to his rants!†
Chpt 40
Definition:
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(rant) to complain or verbally attack in an excited rather than thoughtful way