ranz

The ranz des vaches is a type of mountain tune, played on the cor des Alpes (Alpine horn) and so charged with feeling for those bred to its cadences that under the old regime it had to be prohibited within the royal precincts because the Swiss guard would desert or commit suicide on hearing it.

A Note in Barzun « Unknowing 2010

April 13, 2010 at 2:06 pm texis iz hawt – wuz in Arlington in Sep. 08 and ai ranz frum one A/C spot to annuder. pleh.

As long as work consists of - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger? 2010

Haz been no ranz her in sandiego for munts and munts.

DEPRESSED ECONOMY - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger? 2008

Liddill Tukkz Kitteh hurds t3h canz oapunnurr andz ranz az fasstz az himz coodz!

Iz ready now? Iz ready now? - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger? 2008

LOL! iz ranz theer todai? ai tired of ranz an schmootz!

Kitteh Car Wash - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger? 2008

Mai huzbinz iz roofer and we finleez had sum ranz todai.

DEPRESSED ECONOMY - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger? 2008

The "Armaillis" still drive their herds to the mountains, still singing "_Le ranz des vaches_," the song which among all others best reveals the soul of their race.

The Counts of Gruyère Mrs. Reginald de Koven

A procession of eight sleighs, combining a _ranz des vaches_, a summer bed, and an antiquary shop!

In the Courts of Memory, 1858 1875; from Contemporary Letters 1886

For the ranz des vaches was now ringing in the stout peasant girl's ears.

A Fascinating Traitor An Anglo-Indian Story Richard Savage 1874

At once my Ivizacan, upon whom this air had the effect of the ranz des vaches on the Swiss, declared, all in tears, that I was a native of Iviza.

Biographies of Distinguished Scientific Men Arago, Francois 1859