A lake in the centre of this luxurious vegetation, placid as sleep itself, only stirred by the webbed feet of waterfowl, or the wings of dipping swallows, with above and below a brawling rivulet, here and there showing cascades like the tails of white horses, or the skirts of ballroom belles floating through waltz or Gallopade.
"The Lone Ranche"
Captain Mayne Reid
They were a regular series of thumpings from the interior of the house, occasioned by the violent rocking of a cradle upon a stone floor, to which movement a feminine voice kept time by singing, in a vigorous Gallopade, the favourite ditty of "The Spotted Cow"- I saw her lie do'-own in yon'-der green gro'-ove; Come, love!
"Tess of the d'Urbervilles A Pure Woman"
Thomas Hardy
Flemming laughed outright; but it was not perceived by the Prince, because at that moment he was pushed aside, in the rush of a Gallopade, and Flemming beheld his face no more.
"Hyperion"
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
