Example Sentences

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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

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

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

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

From Poems and Songs of Robert Burns by Burns, Robert

Like the McPherson who danced so wantonly and rantingly beneath the gallows tree, she remained brave-hearted to the end.

From A History of Witchcraft in England from 1558 to 1718 by Notestein, Wallace