We used to tie up our skirts with string so as to run the better, for we were not allowed to wear rationals like I'm wearing now.
"Paris From the "Three Cities""
Emile Zola
"Ah," she continued in a jesting way, "there is nothing like rationals, you know!
"Paris From the "Three Cities""
Emile Zola
What shall we say, when boundless bliss Is offer'd to mankind, And to that offer when a race Of rationals is blind?
"The Poetical Works of Edward Young, Volume 2"
Edward Young