He took the same delight in employing them in his works as he did flim-flams, flub-dubs, and catamarans.
"Eugene Field, A Study In Heredity And Contradictions"
Slason Thompson
As we rounded the lighthouse, half a dozen European steamships came into view, riding at their moorings, making a brief call here on their way east or west, together with a considerable fleet of small coasting crafts, and a long line of idle catamarans, drawn up upon the shelving beach.
"The Pearl of India"
Maturin M. Ballou
How many there were of these catamarans is not quite certain, but perhaps about a score, the intention being to have ten times as many, on the next occasion, if these did well.
"Springhaven A Tale of the Great War"
R. D. Blackmore