"Ranker" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... self-reliance about them, and they gave me a hearty "God greet you!" one and all. Just before reaching Trogen, the postilion pointed to an old, black, tottering platform of masonry, rising out of a green slope of turf on the right. The grass around it seemed ranker than elsewhere. ...
— Atlantic Monthly, Volume 20, No. 118, August, 1867 • Various
... at least one who was not a ranker," said Dick, and there was something akin to awe in his voice. Then he leaned across the table to whisper. "Jack, I've fair ...
— The Master of Appleby • Francis Lynde
... an intent scrutiny at the scarred and bandaged face on the pillow. He had felt from the first that this man was no ordinary ranker. Yet till that moment it had never occurred to him that they ...
— The Swindler and Other Stories • Ethel M. Dell
... with a kind of mournful bitterness. 'That's just it—just it; that's just how it goes!'... He yawned softly; the pathway had come to an end. Beyond him lay ranker grass, one and another obscurer mounds, an old scarred oak seat, shadowed by a few everlastingly green cypresses and coral-fruited yew-trees. And above and beyond all hung a pale blue arch of sky with a few voyaging clouds like ...
— The Return • Walter de la Mare
... of chocolate, And he has grown so dear so dear, That I get up at half-past eight And smoke till night is here. My aunt informs me that the smell Is ranker than before— I could not love her half so well ...
— Punch, Or The London Charivari, Vol. 99., November 29, 1890 • Various
... himself, had something handsome besides his pay, but he had also a sensible father who held him down. Broussard had too many motors, too many horses, too many dogs, too many clothes, too many fighting chickens, and, above all, was too intimate with a certain soldier, a gentleman-ranker who was disapproved, both of officer and man. A gentleman-ranker is a man serving in the rank who might be an officer. This one, Lawrence by name, was a bad lot altogether. The Colonel could add quite a respectable number of demerits ...
— Betty at Fort Blizzard • Molly Elliot Seawell
... crop the planter lavishes his choicest fertilizers; for the ranker the growth, the longer and larger the leaf, the greater is the value thereof, though the manufacturers complain bitterly of the free use of guano, which, they say, destroys the resinous gum on which the value of the ...
— Tobacco; Its History, Varieties, Culture, Manufacture and Commerce • E. R. Billings |
