I'd rather here a soubrette dolled up in a costume that would barely pass the Bord of sensers sing a song like "Mother don't bother with the rolls, father's coming with a bun."
"Love Letters of a Rookie to Julie"
Barney Stone
"The 'Ranz des Vaches' which I send you," he says in one of his letters, "is neither that with which our friend Jean Jacques has presented us, nor that of which M. De la Bord speaks in his work on music.
"Great Violinists And Pianists"
George T. Ferris
These things were signified by the strange and dreadfull wondres which fortuned in the house of the good man, who after he had heard these sorrowfull tydings could in no wise weepe, so farre was he stroken with dolour, but presently taking his knife wherewith he cut his cheese and other meate before, he cut his owne throat likewise, in such sort that he fell upon the Bord and imbraced the table with the streames of his blond, in most miserable manner.
"The Golden Asse"
Lucius Apuleius