You wouldn't think though, to see him and me tappin' each other with the mitts, that he was a front ranker in the smart push.
"Shorty McCabe"
Sewell Ford
To lash the ranker follies of our age.
"The Poetical Works of Edward Young, Volume 2"
Edward Young
With rabid anger swol'n, a triple yell Fill'd all the air; he o'er the virid plain Sprinkled white foam; increasing fast this shoots; The fruitful soil fresh virulence imparts, And ranker grows its power: from hardest rocks It lively springs, and Aconite hence nam'd.
"The Metamorphoses of Publius Ovidus Naso in English blank verse Vols. I & II"
Ovid