What if the vengeance of the housemaid menaced by the imposition of a "calico apron" or a "medium straw bonnet" should assume a darker form, and a system of domestic "rattening" should spread terror through the tranquil parsonages of England? ❋ Lucia Gilbert [Commentator] Calhoun (1860)
Perhaps compulsion was sometimes used -- a sort of "rattening" by which large bodies were driven to the poll to carry this or the other measure. ❋ Anthony Trollope (1848)
He cried out at the sight, and so did the rascals who had done their rattening for a comparatively innocent purpose. ❋ Various (N/A)
The remedy will be found in a Novelists 'League, with tickets, and boycotting, and strikes, and rattening, and all the other devices for getting our own way in an oppressive world. ❋ Andrew Lang (1878)
Literature knows no Trades Unions, but if things go on as they are at present, perhaps we shall hear of literary rattening and picketing. ❋ Andrew Lang (1878)
So are, or ought to be, rattening and intimidation. ❋ Goldwin Smith (1866)
"What, for her services in rattening us?" said Little, dryly. ❋ Charles Reade (1849)
However, he'll be good against rattening; and you have lost a fortnight, and there are a good many orders. ❋ Charles Reade (1849)
He is the treasurer and secretary of an Union that does not number three hundred persons; yet in that small Union, of which he is dictator, there has been as much rattening, and more shooting, and blowing-up wholesale and retail, with the farcical accompaniment of public repudiation, than in all the other Unions put together. ❋ Charles Reade (1849)
The property found on him was identified and the magistrate offered the prisoner a jury, which he declined; then the magistrate dealt with the case summarily, refused to recognize rattening, called the offense ❋ Charles Reade (1849)
Whenever he made a crusade against a public evil, as when he assailed the prison system, or the madhouse system, or the system of rattening in trades unions, his case was supported by huge collections of indexed fact, and in the fight which commonly followed he could appeal to unimpeachable records; but again and again the angry fervour of the advocate led people to forget or to distrust the judicial accuracy on which his case invariably rested. ❋ David Christie Murray (N/A)
Perhaps compulsion was sometimes used ” a sort of “rattening” by which large bodies were driven to the poll to carry this or the other measure. ❋ Trollope, Anthony, 1815-1882 (1881)
[Footnote 44: A few paragraphs in this review, in which allusion was made to certain charges of what might be called 'literary rattening,' brought by Dr. Haug against some Sanskrit scholars, and more particularly against the editor of the 'Indische Studien' at Berlin, have here been omitted, as no longer of any interest. ❋ Unknown (1861)
Said she, "This rattening for trade contributions is the result of bad and partial laws. ❋ Charles Reade (1849)
"Yes," said Grotait; "'but,' I remember I said at the time, 'you must not construe this that I was any way connected with the rattening.' ❋ Charles Reade (1849)
There isn't a power-wheel, or a water-wheel, within eight miles of Hillsborough, that can't show you just such a correspondence as this; and rattening, or worse, at the tail of it. " ❋ Charles Reade (1849)
"'When the correspondence has once descended to the Dash dialect, written phonetically, it never remounts toward grammar, spelling or civilization; and the next in the business is rattening, or else beating, or shooting, or blowing-up the obnoxious individual by himself, or along with a houseful of people quite strange to the quarrel. ❋ Charles Reade (1849)
