"Ramp" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... some distance away. Rip decided a cross ramp would be faster than the moving track. He swung the spack to his shoulder and made his legs go. Seconds were ticking off, and he had an idea the Scorpius would make space on time, whether or not ...
— Rip Foster Rides the Gray Planet • Blake Savage
... cultivator's village. Behind it, rose another sub-range, wooded with a lower bush and already blue with air, whilst in the background towered range upon range, here rising abruptly into points and peaks, there ramp-shaped or wall- formed, with sheer descents, and all of light azure hue adorned with glories of ...
— Vikram and the Vampire • Sir Richard F. Burton
... TIM, referring in course of evening to BRER FOX's reception in his latest run through Ireland. "He may ramp and roar here, but his ...
— Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 100, May 2, 1891 • Various
... confusion, half in anger; and his reply was so detrimental to any favourable influence he might otherwise have exercised over the interrogator, that the latter personage, giving him a pinch in the ear, shouted out, "Ramp, ramp!" and at that significant and awful word, Paul found himself surrounded in a trice by a whole host of ingenious tormentors. One pulled this member, another pinched that; one cuffed him before, and another thrashed him behind. By ...
— Paul Clifford, Complete • Edward Bulwer-Lytton
... herd the two students toward the door. They were in such heated argument now, accusing one another of parrot repetition instead of thinking for himself, that they didn't realize that they were being nudged out of the ship, down its ramp, and ...
— Eight Keys to Eden • Mark Irvin Clifton
... as Captain Theodor Kessel hesitated before descending the ramp. He surveyed the field, the city and the waiting team ...
— The Talkative Tree • Horace Brown Fyfe |
