Labourers homing from the day's work greeted us now and again in the dimness, and presently one of these, plodding up behind us, broke forth into conversation: "Ben-a carry pack-a LIK-a dat-a-forty-two months-army-ol-a country," said the voice out of the darkness.
"October Vagabonds"
Richard Le Gallienne
Sempronia LIK'd her man; and well she might; The youth in person, and in parts, was bright; Possess'd of every virtue, grace, and art, That claims just empire o'er the female heart: He met her passion, all her sighs return'd, And, in full rage of youthful ardour, burn'd: Large his possessions, and beyond her own: Their bliss the theme, and envy of the town: The day was fix'd, when, with one acre more, In stepp'd deform'd, debauch'd, diseas'd threescore.
"The Poetical Works of Edward Young, Volume 2"
Edward Young
Yea, he may tak pleesur baith in itsel' an' in its use, sae lang as he han'les 't i' the how o' thy han', no grippin' at it an' ca'in' 't his ain, an' LIK a rouch bairn seekin' to snap it awa' 'at he may hae his fule wull o' 't.
"Warlock o' Glenwarlock"
George MacDonald