Lexicographical Neighbors of Ramcat
Literary usage of Ramcat
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. History of Oratory and Orators: A Study of the Influence of Oratory Upon by Henry Hardwicke (1896)
"... which completely suited the combative attorney, who gasped with suppressed rage.
He bore the sobriquet of ramcat for the rest of his natural life. ..."
2. History of Oratory and Orators: A Study of the Influence of Oratory Upon by Henry Hardwicke (1896)
"... Sit down, you audacious, snarling, pugnacious ramcat!' We are told the words
were no sooner uttered than every one in court saw their truth. ..."
3. An Annual Publication of Historical Papers by Duke University Trinity College Historical Society (1897)
"The name survives in the vicinity to this day, but the popular mind has modified
it into "ramcat," and a part of this "ramcat Road" is still in use. ..."
4. A Dictionary of Similes by Frank Jenners Wilstach (1916)
"Fierce as a ramcat.—JR BART- LETT'S "DICTIONARY OF AMERICANISMS." Fierce as those
flames which shall consume, at close of all. — BHAGAVAD- GITA. ..."
5. A Dictionary of Slang, Jargon & Cant: Embracing English, American, and Anglo by Albert Barrère, Charles Godfrey Leland (1890)
"The name Ramo Samee was popularised in 182o in England by a Hindoo juggler, who
first exhibited swallowing a sword. ramcat or ..."
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