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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)
  • He pulled me away toward the door, and I followed him while Van Houten ranted to Lidewij about the ingratitude of contemporary teenagers and the death of polite society, and Lidewij, somewhat hysterical, shouted back at him in rapid-fire Dutch.†   (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)
  • I have disliked her since my father's dinner-table rants began, but now I hate her.†   (source)
  • When Tony finished his rant, Wes hung up the phone and went back to bed.†   (source)
  • Gally continued his rant.†   (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)
  • Lone Wolves didn't need much feedback because they liked to rant and rave.†   (source)
  • Late-night shortwave: province of ramblers and dreamers, madmen and ranters.†   (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)
  • 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)
  • 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)
  • And the man was croaking, ranting, not to Maniac now but to the people.†   (source)
  • He has a habit of going off on rants, one of those guys who has an opinion about everything.†   (source)
  • He stopped chopping somewhere in the middle of that rant, but I'm not sure which part.†   (source)
  • Spreading his mad rantings!†   (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)
  • Todd ranted, but Zeitoun knew it would do no good.†   (source)
  • Ranting and screaming in Russian, he slapped him across the face with his red, beringed hand, backwards and forwards.†   (source)
  • The Germans are ranting and raving in all the newspapers at the treachery of Badoglio and the Italian king.†   (source)
  • He ranted until his emotions were spent, then ineffectually punched the ground.†   (source)
  • He seemed fascinated by my little rant.†   (source)
  • We all turned to her, and our shocked expressions seemed to snap her out of her rant.†   (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)
  • Marcus waited for Tata to tell him it was crazy to believe in the ranting words of a stranger.†   (source)
  • The crowd backed away as I screamed and ranted at the stars.†   (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)
  • 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)
  • "Where'd you learn to drive anyway," Willie ranted.†   (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)
  • I think back to how I felt during that halftime rant.†   (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)
  • But that's a rant for a different day.†   (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)
  • 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)
  • People stumble and rant, they lie in filth.†   (source)
  • At a table in back, a muscular teen boy rose and began ranting in what I thought was Portuguese.†   (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)
  • He continued to rant for several minutes.†   (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)
  • 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)
  • He would rant about things that didn't make sense, and his mannerisms were strange.†   (source)
  • It occurs to me that if she did, she'd be ranting and raving against her own husband.†   (source)
  • There were dozens of emails, all of them long rants about how much high school sucked and how awful everybody was.†   (source)
  • But he did not rant and rave; he was quiet and brooding, and we knew that was the worst kind of drunk.†   (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)
  • She ranted, her mother said to her father.†   (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)
  • I paused mid-rant to glare at the offending shadow.†   (source)
  • 'Don't I know it,' my mom would say, holding her clipboard for the person's signature as they ranted on about having to buy new toiletries or clothes in a strange city.†   (source)
  • The mechanism of violence is what destroys women, controls women, diminishes women and keeps women in their so-called place.—EVE ENSLER, A Memory, a Monologue, a Rant, and a Prayer†   (source)
  • he and his little gang huddled at the various churches for prayers and rants.†   (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)
  • I sit on the front stoop and listen to them rant about reputations and boyfriends and loyalty for a half hour.†   (source)
  • Don't talk too much, keep your (my) temper in check, leave the ranting to Mom and Scott, you'll (we'll) be just fine.†   (source)
  • He passes the time in their small cabin writing rants about his growing disillusionment with governmental power.†   (source)
  • Sophie's rantings could not be heard above the wheezing, coughing, and backslapping that now went on.†   (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)
  • 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)
  • he ranted.†   (source)
  • You can be hysterical without screaming or ranting and raving, or hitting your head against a wall.†   (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)
  • She let Papa rant a long time before she reacted.†   (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)
  • She was once again ranting about the immaturity and silliness of the women in the Camp.†   (source)
  • Even though he was still ranting about being set up.†   (source)
  • I wait for her to launch into another of her rants against the Resistance.†   (source)
  • Too scared to stand up to him, I sat quietly as he ranted and raved for many minutes.†   (source)
  • Within seconds, he was ranting semicoherently at the assembled group: Who had made the decision to bring Nick?†   (source)
  • "What rantings?" the dwarf asked, toying with his rabble.†   (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)
  • But anyway, we used to climb up and you'd put your arm around me and I'd cry and yell and you'd just let me rant about how unfair it all was until I finally calmed down.†   (source)
  • Yossarian muttered an unconscious prayer of thankfulness and then flared up at Orr savagely in a ranting fusion of resentment and relief.†   (source)
  • Not because he screamed, "Follow me and we'll kill a lot of Nips!" or ranted about "dying for your country."†   (source)
  • He gesticulates wildly toward Rosie, ranting without pause.†   (source)
  • Crash Vitale was still in solitary, so his rants didn't wake me.†   (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)
  • Apparently, he wasn't about to skip town without finishing his rant on Vlad's growing hunger.†   (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)
  • Mr. Viccars muttered and raved, ranted, cursed, and cried out in pain.†   (source)
  • So he was dreadfully surprised when Ranter spoke.†   (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)
  • But he had to get aholt of himself, because the ranting and raving made his ribs hurt.†   (source)
  • Sinner against God and Man, father and mother—" Robbie prompted him "—and the Holy Ghost, Stan—" and he ranted on "—and the Holy Ghost!†   (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)
  • She may not have been ranting the way I was, but her icy calm was cracked.†   (source)
  • "Rule twelve, paragraph nine of the Little League handbook—" While he was ranting, Frankie began simultaneously writing and reading aloud her words: "Louisville, Kentucky-Today Coach Hicks declared baseball bigger than God...."†   (source)
  • They had to know]' 'As I understood his rantings, he got the jobs done when others couldn't — or wouldn't.†   (source)
  • His concentration was solely on the tower itself, he never looked at the wizard or acknowledged his ranting.†   (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)
  • 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)
  • Donny Kellen was always ranting about the Commies and how they were trying to take over the world.†   (source)
  • It was plain Governor Bill was trying to make Hooch get mad and start in ranting, but Hooch wasn't born yesterday.†   (source)
  • These other people you've been ranting about are something else again.†   (source)
  • That's what I mean, sir," Pearce said when I had finished ranting.†   (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)
  • He did not rant or spew venom or recite Koranic verses or the sayings of the Prophet.†   (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)
  • 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)
  • "I must follow him," said Siddhartha, who had been shivering with grief since those ranting speeches, the boy had made yesterday.†   (source)
  • He was like a spoiled child insisting on attention—winking, leering, ranting, pretending to weep.†   (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 remember all those years in the woods, listening to Gale rant against the Capitol.†   (source)
  • I braced myself for Mom's cost-of-college rant.†   (source)
  • The Rat Man had been staring at Thomas with blank eyes throughout his rant.†   (source)
  • I let him rant till he got it out of his system.†   (source)
  • As the prisoners awoke, with their rantings and threats, Zeitoun prayed.†   (source)
  • The one-eared, pint-size Looney Tune ranting at you?†   (source)
  • Instead of ranting back and forth and frothing at mouth and spoiling our Christmas!†   (source)
  • And I love it when you spout off long, nervous, ridiculous rants.†   (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)
  • That's all I said—all that was necessary—and he stopped ranting.†   (source)
  • Mack smiled as he listened to Willie rant.†   (source)
  • I began to rant and rave, throwing my hands into the air as I paced the living room.†   (source)
  • In her head, she could hear Rasheed's rants against Massoud, how he was a traitor and a communist.†   (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)
  • Mum suddenly abandoned her rant and sniffed casually along Mrs. McDaniels's wrist.†   (source)
  • Clary snapped, cutting him off mid-rant.†   (source)
  • For a long minute, he continued to rant with growing spleen.†   (source)
  • Booth would rant about that injustice if he had the energy.†   (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)
  • I truly had no idea what Mother had been ranting about.†   (source)
  • Hearing this, I relaxed, as my mother's rants were as familiar to me as nursery rhymes.†   (source)
  • Topping Today's Rant List Is, of course, my dear grandmama.†   (source)
  • I'll —" He stopped ranting all of a sudden.†   (source)
  • Booth writes and rants and writes some more.†   (source)
  • He stopped in mid-rant, then looked up at the speaker overhead, listening for a second.†   (source)
  • He stops ranting, studies me, trying to decide how much information I can handle.†   (source)
  • He let Mike rant for a few minutes, before guiding him into the story with a series of questions.†   (source)
  • Bost was permitted to rant and pant for half an hour, but said almost nothing of substance.†   (source)
  • Benerro's rantings will only serve to bring a savage wrath down upon his head.†   (source)
  • Before you jump up my arse I never knew she was there, and was just having a bit of a rant.†   (source)
  • "I should have killed him years ago," Ian ranted as we packed what we needed for our raid.†   (source)
  • "What a thing to say," he rants, talking to the wall, "like I'm some kind of inferior human being!"†   (source)
  • Stupid, too, all ranting about how he's going to sue the sheriff's department for stealing stash.†   (source)
  • I'm entitled to have a hit of a rant in my own stables.†   (source)
  • He rants endlessly about the fall of Richmond and the injustice of Lincoln having his way.†   (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)
  • 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)
  • So you can ask for any stupid, ridiculous thingyou want — like gettingmarried — butI'm not allowed to evendiscuss what I —" 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)
  • 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)
  • 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)
  • 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 sounds just like my dad on one of his speculative rants, and suddenly I'm annoyed, I'm not sure why.†   (source)
  • When I asked her father about a relatively estranged family member, I expected to hear a rant about character flaws.†   (source)
  • He's too old for you," he ranted.†   (source)
  • The heart of a school board director ....He is warming up for a full-fledged rant when the bell rings.†   (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)
  • Cook some meat and fish, buy the largest turtles around, let strangers come and spread their mats in the corners and urinate in the rose bushes and sit down to eat as many times as they want and belch and rant and muddy everything with their boots, and let them do whatever they want to us, because that's the only way to drive off rain.†   (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)
  • Laila went on a stammering rant.†   (source)
  • She gathers examples of stereotypes, slights and ill-informed rants to try to educate the offenders and the public.†   (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)
  • Inside the cage, Todd ranted and swore.†   (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)
  • "The entire country is in a shambles," ranted the pirate radio announcer we were tuned into, JikeMike, in the background.†   (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)
  • That was his life two years before Gaston began to wait for the airplane, and it went on the same way on the afternoon that he went to the bookstore of the wise Catalonian and found four ranting boys in a heated argument about the methods used to kill cockroaches in the Middle Ages.†   (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)
  • Despite her rants against him when he wasn't around, Nana was subdued and mannerly when Jalil visited.†   (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)
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