Base of the left lung is solidifying, or I'm much mistaken; the heart, instead of waltzing as is suitable to my time of life, is doing a Galop, and everything else is as wrong as it can be."
"At Sunwich Port, Complete"
W.W. Jacobs
Aunt Merlin had ceased to listen; the last figure had arrived, that in which the Galop is the leading feature; and said Cherami, as he put his arm about her waist: "We'll just show the others how to Galop.
"Monsieur Cherami"
Charles Paul de Kock
Then the music struck into a splendid Galop, and out from the curtained mysteries beyond, the knights and ladies darted, two and two, in glory of crimson and gold, and green and silver.
"Rose of Dutcher's Coolly"
Hamlin Garland