ranter's

Updated: July 8, 2025

Then followed a sort of vision of the lost delivered in short abrupt sentences the form of the speaker drawn rigidly up meanwhile to its full height, the long arm outstretched. The utterance had very little of the lurid materialism, the grotesque horror of the ordinary ranter's hell. But it stole upon the imagination little by little, and possessed it at last with an all-pervading terror.

Mrs. Humphry Ward - The History of David Grieve

Do not from these words conclude that I am a fanatic, nor that I shall pour into your ears a ranter's tale; for cant is more to be despised even than godlessness; but during the period of my life of which I shall write I learned but what I learned I shall in due time tell you.

Charles Major - Dorothy Vernon of Haddon Hall