Three white bears were borne by Barlingham, and a bear ramping on his hind legs is for Barnard.
His seal of 1189 shows his shield charged with a lion ramping towards the sinister side.
I saw the war-horse ramping And shake his forelock fine-- By a weeping willow tree Beside the Dead Sea.
This idea of ramping is not original, for it has been carried out in the old Italian gardens for centuries, but it is only within recent years that it has been successfully developed by landscape gardeners in our country.
I see Nature, as Narstiness, ramping at wot Nambypamby dubbed Nice, And Twoddle parading as Virtue, and Silliness playing at Vice.
A ramping cornice of shallow arches with dentils above it finishes the wall, the centre portion of which is pierced with a two-light trefoiled window blocked up below, while a chapel to the north is lighted by simple-pointed windows.
In other of his temptations, he stealeth on like a fox, but in this Turk's persecution for the faith, he runneth on roaring with assault like a ramping lion.
And he himself in the meanwhile compasseth us, running and roaring like a ramping lion about us, looking to see who will fall, that he may then devour him.
I hope no one will ever erect an equestrian statue in my honour; now that I have experienced the sensation of ramping over nothing, I find I dislike it.
But if ramping tunnel vaults were not used over the ambulatory, there are at least two instances of the employment of expanding transverse tunnel vaults in this position and these may well be products of the Aachen type.
It is undoubtedly a product of Roman and very early mediaeval architecture, for it is to be seen in such buildings as the Basilica of Maxentius at Rome, and in a modified, ramping form at Aachen.
So at last two of the gates were lifted and one was broken, and the flood ran down ramping and roaring in great raundon, and as it ran the black face of Flumen sprang above it, crying, "Yet will I mar both Mill and Maid.
Once as he was exhorting the peaple to beware of the Devil, who was a roaring andramping lyon, etc.
Theirs a lion standing ramping ready as ye would think to devore you; yonder a horse; yonder a dog at the chass; and all this so glittering by reason that its covered wt gold that it would dazell any mans eyes.
Of the ancient ramping wall of the Romans, S, and of the enclosure, T, there existed only heaps of debris.
That very night, the enemy attempted to cross the river, aided by the islet of sand, in order to attack the ramping curtain on the north from behind; but they were unable to land, the quays being well lined with troops.
It was decided to seize the great tete de pont, still in the hands of the besieged; to keep a strict watch on the shores of the river; and to attack the place along the whole extent of the northern front, comprising the ramping wall.
Along the ramping wall, Secondinus's miners had reached the sand, and were consequently no longer heard.
On visiting the base of the ramping wall he heard no noise at this point, although his lieutenants said they had heard mining towards the upper third of the wall during the preceding days.
Secondinus raised an agger at this point, in front of the gate of the cite; and on the declivity of the plateau another agger opposite and on the counterscarp of the fosse of the rampingwall (Fig.
She could not help smiling; he was ramping about in such a clumsy, comical way.
When he came home late and groped his way across the landing he always experienced a secret terror lest he should rub against Strom's lifeless body; and he only breathed freely when he heard him snoring or ramping round his room.
You said you'd noticed me ramping round like a man in prison.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "ramping" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
