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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?

Modern Women and What is Said of Them A Reprint of A Series of Articles in the Saturday Review (1868) 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.

Life of Cicero Volume One Anthony Trollope 1848

He cried out at the sight, and so did the rascals who had done their rattening for a comparatively innocent purpose.

Adventures in Many Lands Various

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.

Lost Leaders 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.

Lost Leaders Andrew Lang 1878

So are, or ought to be, rattening and intimidation.

Lectures and Essays Goldwin Smith 1866

However, he'll be good against rattening; and you have lost a fortnight, and there are a good many orders.

Put Yourself in His Place 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.

Put Yourself in His Place 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

Put Yourself in His Place Charles Reade 1849

"What, for her services in rattening us?" said Little, dryly.

Put Yourself in His Place Charles Reade 1849