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Sae rantingly, sae wantonly, jovially Sae dauntingly gaed he; He played a spring and danced it round, lively tune Below the gallows tree.

From Robert Burns How To Know Him by Neilson, William Allan

In the pulpit he expresses himself easily, often fervently, never rantingly.

From Our Churches and Chapels Their Parsons, Priests, & Congregations Being a Critical and Historical Account of Every Place of Worship in Preston by Atticus

Whitredge's summing-up was as lame in effect as it was rantingly emotional.

From Branded by Lynde, Francis

Sae rantingly, sae wantonly, Sae dauntingly gaed he— He played a spring and danced it roun Beneath the gallows tree.

From Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland Volume 4 by Various

Sae rantingly, sae wantonly, Sae dauntingly gaed he; He play’d a spring, and danc’d it round, Below the gallows-tree.

From The Complete Works of Robert Burns: Containing his Poems, Songs, and Correspondence. With a New Life of the Poet, and Notices, Critical and Biographical by Allan Cunningham by Burns, Robert