She has given up all those that I used to call her rantipole acquaintance. From Wordnik.com. [Tales and Novels — Volume 03] Reference
Railings and ravings rantipole we hold are reprehensible. From Wordnik.com. [Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 100, February 28, 1891] Reference
'Well, sir, well,' said the old gentleman, now very much piqued, 'I can't but say I feel some concern for my old friend, to have his money doused about at such a rantipole rate. From Wordnik.com. [Camilla] Reference
And now, my dear Severn, when you have read this rantipole page, walk soberly into your bed-room, put on your night cap, heave a sigh, squeeze a tear out if you can, and lament over my unfortunate, sad, lost state; while I roar with laughter at all wise fellows like yourself. From Wordnik.com. [New Letters from Charles Brown to Joseph Severn] Reference
This rantipole hero had for some time singled out the blooming. From Wordnik.com. [The Sketch-Book of Geoffrey Crayon] Reference
I was always considered as a rantipole, for whom anything was good enough. From Wordnik.com. [Frank Mildmay The Naval Officer] Reference
I was always considered as a rantipole, for whom any thing was good enough. From Wordnik.com. [Frank Mildmay Or, The Naval Officer] Reference
Page 132 some rare snatched fleeting moments of rantipole laughter, and at the last a decent bed to die in. From Wordnik.com. [The Cream of the Jest: A Comedy of Evasions] Reference
I was in town on Monday; the Duchess of Beaufort graced our loo, and made it as rantipole as a Quaker's meeting. From Wordnik.com. [The Letters of Horace Walpole, Earl of Orford — Volume 4] Reference
"Hymns, ballets, or rantipole rubbish; the Rogue's March or the cherubim's warble -- 'tis all the same to me if 'tis good harmony, and well put out.". From Wordnik.com. [The Mayor of Casterbridge] Reference
In short, for once, the good Squire's mansion might have been taken as a good specimen of one of the rantipole establishments of the good old feudal times. From Wordnik.com. [Bracebridge Hall, or The Humorists] Reference
Yet such was the fact; and on the re - collection of it, we never presume to tell our young rantipole friends that they are diminishing their chances for getting a lover. From Wordnik.com. [The Countess and Gertrude; Or, Modes of Discipline] Reference
And candour must allow that, if not elegant, it is appropriate; it gives a just idea of the manners and way of life of the place, for every thing at rantipole is rantipole. From Wordnik.com. [Tales and Novels — Volume 03] Reference
The rantipole friends of liberty, who go about freeing nations with the same success which Don Quixote had in redressing wrongs, have, of course, blundered everything which they touched. From Wordnik.com. [The Journal of Sir Walter Scott From the Original Manuscript at Abbotsford] Reference
Although he had made his name with his outspoken responses to journalists' questions during the fuel protests, he was, as it turned out, no rabble-rouser and there was nothing of the rantipole about him. From Wordnik.com. [The Independent - Frontpage RSS Feed] Reference
He was one evening at the house of his friend Burke, when he was beset by a tenth muse, an Irish widow and authoress, just arrived from Ireland, full of brogue and blunders, and poetic fire and rantipole gentility. From Wordnik.com. [Oliver Goldsmith A Biography] Reference
This rantipole colony, founded by Lord Baltimore, a British nobleman, was managed by his agent, a swaggering Englishman, commonly called Fendall, that is to say, "offend all," a name given him for his bullying propensities. From Wordnik.com. [Knickerbocker's History of New York, Complete] Reference
The Locrians, too, being freed from all incitement to litigation, lived very lovingly together, and were so happy a people that they make scarce any figure in history; it being only your litigatous, quarrelsome, rantipole nations who make much noise in the world. From Wordnik.com. [Knickerbocker's History of New York, Complete] Reference
Lady Hardy turned away; the abashed knight repented having married a quality wife, and sighed for the freedom of that counting-house, which he had bartered for the privilege of looking like a fool, in the company of titled sharpers and rantipole women of fashion. From Wordnik.com. [Lovers and Friends; or, Modern Attachments] Reference
This rantipole hero had for some time singled out the blooming Katrina for the object of his uncouth gallantries, and though his amorous toyings were something like the gentle caresses and endearments of a bear, yet it was whispered that she did not altogether discourage his hopes. From Wordnik.com. [Legends That Every Child Should Know; a Selection of the Great Legends of All Times for Young People] Reference
"Robbed, sir!" exclaimed Mrs. Kelly; "no, sir -- no one was ever robbed in my house -- my house is respectable and responsible, sir -- a vartuous house -- none o 'your rantipole places, sir, I'd have you to know, but decent and well behaved, and the house was as quiet as a lamb all night.". From Wordnik.com. [Handy Andy, Volume 2 — a Tale of Irish Life] Reference
'gentle rantipole!' and a single wave of his arm, proceeded to make one of those scientific rests for which this eminent huntsman is so justly celebrated. From Wordnik.com. [Mr. Sponge's Sporting Tour] Reference
Ndash; when these passages – trifling, perhaps, in themselves, but important when considered in relation to the plot – are hurried and blurred over in the stuttering enunciation of some miserable rantipole, or omitted altogether through the constitutional lapse of memory so peculiar to those lights of the age and stage, bedight from being of no conceivable use supernumeraries?. From Wordnik.com. [languagehat.com: DIGHT.] Reference
(high spirits never came near her) and the imperturbable composure of her smooth insolence, was as unlike the rantipole, racketing high-bred woman of fashion of Sir John Vanbrugh's play as the flimsy elegance of my silver-embroidered, rose-colored tulle dress was unlike the elaborate splendor of her hooped and feathered and high-heeled, patched-and-powdered magnificence, with its falling laces and standing brocades. From Wordnik.com. [Records of a Girlhood] Reference
Page view page image: and me in that rantipole way, which I must say was peculiar.”. From Wordnik.com. [Hope Leslie, Or, Early Times in the Massachusetts] Reference
"Look, you rantipole -- who is that?". From Wordnik.com. [Heralds of Empire Being the Story of One Ramsay Stanhope, Lieutenant to Pierre Radisson in the Northern Fur Trade] Reference
Thanks, rantipole. From Wordnik.com. [Darth Vader's Day Off] Reference
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