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  • Baba, who'd had a few scotches before dinner, was still ranting about the kite tournament, how I'd outlasted them all, how I'd come home with the last kite.†   (source)
  • On other days, deep in the woods, I've listened to him rant about how the tesserae are just another tool to cause misery in our district.†   (source)
  • I was talkin' ter him seconds before that kid was found, he never had time, sir " Dumbledore tried to say something, but Hagrid went ranting on, waving the rooster around in his agitation, sending feathers everywhere.†   (source)
  • Worried about alienating the boy, Franz said little during such outbursts and let him rant.†   (source)
  • A few times she cried so bad, ranting and tearing her hair, that Rosaleen had to come get August from the honey house.†   (source)
  • He shook his head and shrugged as if to say it was the ranting of a drunk.†   (source)
  • When Chris gets going on a Genevieve rant, she is single-minded.†   (source)
  • But what made for the most colorful listening were the conspiracy rants.†   (source)
  • She'd rant about the lack of jobs and wonder aloud whether that was why our neighbor couldn't find a good man.†   (source)
  • Gaily continued his rant.†   (source)
  • When Tony finished his rant, Wes hung up the phone and went back to bed.†   (source)
  • Sir Leigh Teabing had vociferously proclaimed his innocence, and yet from his incoherent rantings about the Holy Grail, secret documents, and mysterious brotherhoods, Fache suspected the wily historian was setting the stage for his lawyers to plead an insanity defense.†   (source)
  • I have disliked her since my father's dinner-table rants began, but now I hate her.†   (source)
  • One was that Daddy's and Pete's storms gave a quiet steady worker like Ty lots of power, because not only would he calmly pursue his aims while they ranted, more often than not each of them would appeal to him for support.†   (source)
  • While Celaena could listen to Nehemia rant about the King of Adarlan for hours, they were in a garden—other people might be listening.†   (source)
  • I know that some of the girls have told their parents that I deliver "ranting lectures" to them about the United States; some parents have complained to the headmistress, and Katherine has cautioned me to keep my politics out of the classroom—"or at least say something about Canada; BSS girls are Canadians, for the most part, you know."†   (source)
  • He's standing at the back door, still ranting, "You can run, Jane, but you can't hide from the truth.†   (source)
  • And the man was croaking, ranting, not to Maniac now but to the people.†   (source)
  • Late-night shortwave: province of ramblers and dreamers, madmen and ranters.†   (source)
  • He has a habit of going off on rants, one of those guys who has an opinion about everything.†   (source)
  • Lone Wolves didn't need much feedback because they liked to rant and rave.†   (source)
  • Street preachers took to self-flagellation and ranting about the Apocalypse, though they seemed disappointed: where were the trumpets and angels, why hadn't the moon turned to blood?†   (source)
  • I war- rant there's not a housewife in the colonies can duplicate your apple tarts."†   (source)
  • Marcus waited for Tata to tell him it was crazy to believe in the ranting words of a stranger.†   (source)
  • The Germans are ranting and raving in all the newspapers at the treachery of Badoglio and the Italian king.†   (source)
  • He stopped chopping somewhere in the middle of that rant, but I'm not sure which part.†   (source)
  • Ranting and screaming in Russian, he slapped him across the face with his red, beringed hand, backwards and forwards.†   (source)
  • So he was dreadfully surprised when Ranter spoke.†   (source)
  • Danny had called for Mr. Hallorann, and upstairs, sitting next to Danny in fear as her husband ranted and raved below, that had seemed like the faintest of all hopes.†   (source)
  • He ranted until his emotions were spent, then ineffectually punched the ground.†   (source)
  • But that's a rant for a different day.†   (source)
  • She sent us off to school and tried to maintain her crazy house as usual, ranting about this and that, but the fire was gone.†   (source)
  • To reshape his garden into mounds; to submit to Tata Ndu on the subject of river baptism; to listen at all to Tata Ndu or even the rantings of Mama Tataba.†   (source)
  • Spreading his mad rantings!†   (source)
  • She expected a huge fight, no dinner, just shouting, more threats, more rants about how Ruth wanted her dead so she could live with Auntie Gal. LuLing would wait for Ruth to admit that she wrote those hateful words.†   (source)
  • The crowd backed away as I screamed and ranted at the stars.†   (source)
  • He seemed fascinated by my little rant.†   (source)
  • And when we splashed back to the beach, Chief Schulz was there, ranting and yelling for us to form up and run the mile to the chow hall.†   (source)
  • I know Jewish readers who still read Pound and claim to gain something from the experience, others who refuse to have anything to do with him, and still others who read him but rant against him all the while.†   (source)
  • She shrieked and ranted for a quarter of an hour, then deprived us of our noontime break in the open air that day.†   (source)
  • Todd ranted, but Zeitoun knew it would do no good.†   (source)
  • At a table in back, a muscular teen boy rose and began ranting in what I thought was Portuguese.†   (source)
  • When I asked an employee at the McDonald's in Plauen if the restau- rant had ever been the target of neo-Nazis, she laughed and said there'd never been any threats of that kind.†   (source)
  • We all turned to her, and our shocked expressions seemed to snap her out of her rant.†   (source)
  • I said goodby to Corina, and nodded a goodby to Hermie and Santita whose mother came in ranting about us troublemakers and how she'd never let the sisters go anywhere with us again.†   (source)
  • Wasn't Hitler's own struggle to express himself in German the crucial subtext of his massive ranting autobiography, dictated in a fortress prison in the Bavarian hills?†   (source)
  • You can rant all you want about honor and honesty and how mundanes don't have any of either, but if you were honest, you'd admit this tantrum is just because you're in love with him.†   (source)
  • I think back to how I felt during that halftime rant.†   (source)
  • "Where'd you learn to drive anyway," Willie ranted.†   (source)
  • It occurs to me that if she did, she'd be ranting and raving against her own husband.†   (source)
  • People stumble and rant, they lie in filth.†   (source)
  • He continued to rant for several minutes.†   (source)
  • April frickin' Fools." he ranted.†   (source)
  • She let Papa rant a long time before she reacted.†   (source)
  • Too scared to stand up to him, I sat quietly as he ranted and raved for many minutes.†   (source)
  • I sit on the front stoop and listen to them rant about reputations and boyfriends and loyalty for a half hour.†   (source)
  • They discussed and debated and raved and ranted until they were on the verge of blows, when it was decided to submit the question to arbitration by the princesses.†   (source)
  • He gesticulates wildly toward Rosie, ranting without pause.†   (source)
  • I wait for her to launch into another of her rants against the Resistance.†   (source)
  • I been silent so long now it's gonna roar out of me like floodwaters and you think the guy telling this is ranting and raving my God; you think this is too horrible to have really happened, this is too awful to be the truth!†   (source)
  • She ranted, her mother said to her father.†   (source)
  • There were dozens of emails, all of them long rants about how much high school sucked and how awful everybody was.†   (source)
  • He'd drawn in another breath, to continue this rant, but now he let it out, one big whoosh, then turned his head to look at me.†   (source)
  • When she heard about the flight, Fernanda ranted for a whole day as she checked trunks, dressers, and closets, item by item, to make sure that Santa Sofia de la Piedad had not made off with anything.†   (source)
  • You can be hysterical without screaming or ranting and raving, or hitting your head against a wall.†   (source)
  • She was once again ranting about the immaturity and silliness of the women in the Camp.†   (source)
  • I Thought Dad's Rant Was Bad.†   (source)
  • Augustus was just as capable, beneath all his rant, and would have got them through the same scrapes if it had been necessary, but Augustus wouldn't bother rising to an occasion until it became absolutely necessary.†   (source)
  • --EVE ENSLER, A Memory, a Monologue, a Rant, and a Prayer Rape has become endemic in South Africa, so a medical technician named Sonette Ehlers developed a product that immediately grabbed national attention there.†   (source)
  • Riddle set a limit of 130, ranted at the Hialeah racing secretary when the horse received just that, then balked when another track's secretary assigned the horse 132 pounds for a later race.†   (source)
  • He would rant about things that didn't make sense, and his mannerisms were strange.†   (source)
  • As Richard sat in the kitchen, he could hear his father ranting as he watched a football game on television.†   (source)
  • Not because he screamed, "Follow me and we'll kill a lot of Nips!" or ranted about "dying for your country."†   (source)
  • Even though he was still ranting about being set up.†   (source)
  • They squabbled over the children's affection and fought for the right to care for Clara in her rantings and ravings; their silent, continuous war was conducted in the kitchens, the courtyards, the hallways, but never near Clara, because the two of them had agreed to spare her that particular anguish.†   (source)
  • Yossarian muttered an unconscious prayer of thankfulness and then flared up at Orr savagely in a ranting fusion of resentment and relief.†   (source)
  • He begins ranting about the cheating in his class, about how he thinks a lot of other kids cheated on the main exam for this advisory.†   (source)
  • Apparently, he wasn't about to skip town without finishing his rant on Vlad's growing hunger.†   (source)
  • More astonishing, perhaps, was the fact that time travel hadn't broken my brain; that by some miracle, I had not yet devolved into a gibbering crazy person ranting on a street corner.†   (source)
  • I paused mid-rant to glare at the offending shadow.†   (source)
  • But he did not rant and rave; he was quiet and brooding, and we knew that was the worst kind of drunk.†   (source)
  • The Germans, the Italians, even the Indonesian government-no one was in the mood to listen to the rantings of a crazed prophet who'd kidnapped the woman in Bangkok.†   (source)
  • Crash Vitale was still in solitary, so his rants didn't wake me.†   (source)
  • Bost was permitted to rant and pant for half an hour, but said almost nothing of substance.†   (source)
  • While he was ranting, Frankie began simultaneously writing and reading aloud her words: "Louisville, Kentucky-Today Coach Hicks declared baseball bigger than God…."†   (source)
  • It is blown away by the ranting of a drunk man, by the sound of screeching tires, by the smell of old beer.†   (source)
  • Mr. Viccars muttered and raved, ranted, cursed, and cried out in pain.†   (source)
  • If the universe was a cold mechanism, if life was a journey from one empty blackness to another, he could not rant at God, because to do so was no more effective than screaming for help in the vacuum of deep space, where sound could not travel, or like trying to draw breath underwater.†   (source)
  • Sophie's rantings could not be heard above the wheezing, coughing, and backslapping that now went on.†   (source)
  • "What rantings?" the dwarf asked, toying with his rabble.†   (source)
  • He passes the time in their small cabin writing rants about his growing disillusionment with governmental power.†   (source)
  • Mum suddenly abandoned her rant and sniffed casually along Mrs. McDaniels's wrist.†   (source)
  • But he had to get aholt of himself, because the ranting and raving made his ribs hurt.†   (source)
  • Donny Kellen was always ranting about the Commies and how they were trying to take over the world.†   (source)
  • That's what I mean, sir," Pearce said when I had finished ranting.†   (source)
  • She may not have been ranting the way I was, but her icy calm was cracked.†   (source)
  • Old Stew might rant, he might take you by the collar, become belligerent, even stumble on the stairs when going to sleep, but none of it was a surprise.†   (source)
  • He was perched on the toilet in front of me, with one foot in the bowl, ranting about what he calls the coming of the blessed sap.†   (source)
  • Robbie prompted him "—and the Holy Ghost, Stan—" and he ranted on "—and the Holy Ghost!†   (source)
  • Last year, Eleanor's friend Gemma Sterling (star of the hit Web series Rant) mentioned us in an interview, and our following tripled.†   (source)
  • His concentration was solely on the tower itself, he never looked at the wizard or acknowledged his ranting.†   (source)
  • What a lucky, lucky person I am to have her to lean on, to love me, to understand and not condemn and scream and rant and rave and tear her hair—and mine.†   (source)
  • She drinks more, maybe, rants around the house thinking of all the things she'd like to do to the people who've ticked her off.†   (source)
  • They had to know]' 'As I understood his rantings, he got the jobs done when others couldn't — or wouldn't.†   (source)
  • He did not rant or spew venom or recite Koranic verses or the sayings of the Prophet.†   (source)
  • These other people you've been ranting about are something else again.†   (source)
  • It was plain Governor Bill was trying to make Hooch get mad and start in ranting, but Hooch wasn't born yesterday.†   (source)
  • It shows that the most obscene figures are not the ignorant ranting racists, but the legal minds who front for them, who "invent" for them the legislative proposals and the propaganda bulletins.†   (source)
  • "Fidelity would become you more," he is saying in the midst of his runaway rant.†   (source)
  • Frantically I rolled the windows shut and, swinging quickly to the left, grazed the animal, then scuttled, on while Charley raved and ranted beside me, describing in detail what he would do to that bear if he could get at him.†   (source)
  • Red ranted at him for two days after that one.†   (source)
  • He was like a spoiled child insisting on attention--winking, leering, ranting, pretending to weep.†   (source)
  • "I must follow him," said Siddhartha, who had been shivering with grief since those ranting speeches, the boy had made yesterday.†   (source)
  • Rant.†   (source)
  • He ranted at the people on the stairway.   (source)
    ranted = yelled
  • She stopped to draw a deep breath and then went ranting on.   (source)
    ranting = complaining or verbally attacking in a loud, excited way
  • I braced myself for Mom's cost-of-college rant.†   (source)
  • Clary snapped, cutting him off mid-rant.†   (source)
  • The Rat Man had been staring at Thomas with blank eyes throughout his rant.†   (source)
  • I remember all those years in the woods, listening to Gale rant against the Capitol.†   (source)
  • The one-eared, pint-size Looney Tune ranting at you?†   (source)
  • And I love it when you spout off long, nervous, ridiculous rants.†   (source)
  • I began to rant and rave, throwing my hands into the air as I paced the living room.†   (source)
  • Leah M OTHER DID NOT RANT or tear her hair.†   (source)
  • Minho sucked in a breath as if to begin a rant, but he stopped short, closed his mouth.†   (source)
  • Instead of ranting back and forth and frothing at mouth and spoiling our Christmas!†   (source)
  • Mack smiled as he listened to Willie rant.†   (source)
  • That's all I said—all that was necessary—and he stopped ranting.†   (source)
  • As the prisoners awoke, with their rantings and threats, Zeitoun prayed.†   (source)
  • In her head, she could hear Rasheed's rants against Massoud, how he was a traitor and a communist.†   (source)
  • He is warming up for a full-fledged rant when the bell rings.†   (source)
  • Even with Pa ranting and raving, Tate picked you up and handed you to Ma.†   (source)
  • He was ranting incoherently and had soiled himself.†   (source)
  • They'd probably been recording my crazed ranting and sobbing all along.†   (source)
  • Woref is ranting and raving like a lunatic.†   (source)
  • Hearing this, I relaxed, as my mother's rants were as familiar to me as nursery rhymes.†   (source)
  • Booth would rant about that injustice if he had the energy.†   (source)
  • For a long minute, he continued to rant with growing spleen.†   (source)
  • I truly had no idea what Mother had been ranting about.†   (source)
  • A rest, he said, from his own internal rant.†   (source)
  • He's always ranting about suns and stars and glowing lights he claims to see.†   (source)
  • You are a Ramirez-Arellano! her father used to rant.†   (source)
  • I let him rant till he got it out of his system.†   (source)
  • I'm entitled to have a hit of a rant in my own stables."†   (source)
  • He stops ranting, studies me, trying to decide how much information I can handle.†   (source)
  • He rants endlessly about the fall of Richmond and the injustice of Lincoln having his way.†   (source)
  • He let Mike rant for a few minutes, before guiding him into the story with a series of questions.†   (source)
  • "What a thing to say," he rants, talking to the wall, "like I'm some kind of inferior human being!"†   (source)
  • Benerro's rantings will only serve to bring a savage wrath down upon his head."†   (source)
  • Topping Today's Rant List Is, of course, my dear grandmama.†   (source)
  • He stopped in mid-rant, then looked up at the speaker overhead, listening for a second.†   (source)
  • "I should have killed him years ago," Ian ranted as we packed what we needed for our raid.†   (source)
  • Stupid, too, all ranting about how he's going to sue the sheriff's department for stealing stash.†   (source)
  • Booth writes and rants and writes some more.†   (source)
  • Before you jump up my arse I never knew she was there, and was just having a bit of a rant.†   (source)
  • Sure enough Mrs. Brown was ranting about something to her kids.†   (source)
  • Her eyes gleamed, her voice ranted, then whispered, then rasped, then quivered.†   (source)
  • had he been made to cease his daylong uninterrupted rant.†   (source)
  • Ignoring Uncle Vernon's ongoing rant about owls, and narrowing his eyes against a second cloud of dust as the most recent owl look off back up the chimney, Harry read Sirius's message.†   (source)
  • While I was ranting, he pulled my hands together to restrain them in just one of his, and put his other hand over my mouth.†   (source)
  • Ranting.†   (source)
  • Minho shrugged off Newt's hand and started his usual rant of sarcastic remarks, but Thomas had already tuned out, his heart's pace having kicked in to a rapid series of almost painful thumps.†   (source)
  • Before the Prime Minister could ask why he was dripping all over the Axminster, Fudge had started ranting about a prison the Prime Minister had never heard of, a man named "Serious" Black, something that sounded like "Hogwarts," and a boy called Harry Potter, none of which made the remotest sense to the Prime Minister.†   (source)
  • Laila knew the routine: Mammy, ferocious, indomitable, pacing and ranting; Babi, sitting, looking sheepish and dazed, nodding obediently, waiting for the storm to pass.†   (source)
  • That man too had been conversing wildly with thin air; Aunt Petunia had seized Dudley's hand and pulled him across the road to avoid him; Uncle Vernon had then treated the family to a long rant about what he would like to do with beggars and vagrants.†   (source)
  • There are rogues and scoundrels everywhere, but they use a different sort of language to excuse themselves; and there they pay a great lip service to democracy, just as here they rant on about the right order of society, and loyalty to the Queen; though the poor man is poor on every shore.†   (source)
  • Beck, however, was in the habit of turning his monologues into scathing, Limbaughesque rants against bed-wetting liberals, and at one point that evening I made the mistake of disagreeing with him: in response to one of his comments I suggested that raising the minimum wage seemed like a wise and necessary policy.†   (source)
  • But whenever a union gains support at a particular restau- rant, the McDonald's Corporation suddenly shows tremendous interest in the emotional and financial well-being of the workers there.†   (source)
  • I don't expect her to rant and rave about the unfairness of the Officials taking the artifacts, and she doesn't.†   (source)
  • Harry was so pleased to see it he felt he could even endure Filch's wheezy criticisms of his tardiness and rants about how his timekeeping would improve with the regular application of thumbscrews.†   (source)
  • Dis heah black boy has got at least one long stripe of yaller … and it runs rant up his ebberlubbin back!†   (source)
  • He sounds just like my dad on one of his speculative rants, and suddenly I'm annoyed, I'm not sure why.†   (source)
  • When he found these, we'd listen, sometimes to a community announcement, sometimes to a rant, but it became evident that there was no power, no communications out here either.†   (source)
  • When I asked her father about a relatively estranged family member, I expected to hear a rant about character flaws.†   (source)
  • It's an opening for a rant about a screwy system in which Adams was rescued from death only to be sent back to the scene of the crime at his own peril.†   (source)
  • He's too old for you," he ranted.†   (source)
  • Ron went into a rant about Marietta Edgecombe, which Harry found helpful; all he had to do was look angry, nod and say 'Yeah' and That's right' whenever Ron drew breath, leaving his mind free to dwell, ever more miserably, on what he had seen in the Pensieve.†   (source)
  • He continued to rant, cursing his enemies and describing how he would scourge the land of everyone who bore him ill will.†   (source)
  • I'm reminded of my nervous rant on Saturday night, when I wanted him to just get it over with and kiss me in the kitchen.†   (source)
  • Inside the cage, Todd ranted and swore.†   (source)
  • Laila went on a stammering rant.†   (source)
  • "Ah reckon we can git us some rest'rant vittles," Pa said, and led her along the pier toward the Barkley Cove Diner.†   (source)
  • She gathers examples of stereotypes, slights and ill-informed rants to try to educate the offenders and the public.†   (source)
  • I stood in front of them for hours as they ranted to the passing parades about the wonders under their tents and handkerchiefs.†   (source)
  • "Well, your mother has been on the phone all afternoon, ranting and raving about you," Lilian said, pointing a finger at me, "terrorizing the streets."†   (source)
  • In midwinter a field biologist discovered all his belongings, two rifles, camping gear, a diary filled with incoherent ranting about truth and beauty and recondite ecological theory, in an empty cabin near Tofty, its interior filled with drifted snow.†   (source)
  • She'd rant against the people we'd see in the grocery store: "I can't understand why people who've worked all their lives scrape by while these deadbeats buy liquor and cell phone coverage with our tax money."†   (source)
  • He went ninety miles an hour all the time, filling the walls the way he filled time and space, ranting, raging, rapping about the great injustice done to the black man.†   (source)
  • Despite her rants against him when he wasn't around, Nana was subdued and mannerly when Jalil visited.†   (source)
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