Lexicographical Neighbors of Racketed
Literary usage of Racketed
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Jungle Book by Rudyard Kipling (1894)
"... camels have racketed through our lines again — the third time this week.
How 's a horse to keep his condition if he is n't allowed to sleep? Who's here? ..."
2. Lord Jim by Joseph Conrad (1900)
"The ash-buckets racketed, clanking up and down the stokehold ventilators, and
this tin-pot clatter warned him the end of his watch was near. ..."
3. Publishers Weekly by Publishers' Board of Trade (U.S.), Book Trade Association of Philadelphia, American Book Trade Union, Am. Book Trade Association, R.R. Bowker Company (1876)
"... ?ies for Art Study : —Water-Color Studies, 12 racketed. $38.50, or Sep., 1-3,
ea., $1.50; 4-8, ca.f ел., $й. ..."
4. Library of the World's Best Literature: Ancient and Modern by Edward Cornelius Towne (1897)
"The wind blazed and racketed through the narrow space between the house and the
hill. The flakes shaded and mottled the sky, and fell twirling, pitching, ..."
5. St. Nicholas by Mary Mapes Dodge (1916)
"... creaked their ropes, and racketed with their tackle. And ever the black waves
leaped around them, their crests breaking into silvery foam. "About! ..."
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