Oh, if a man of them but did Presume to glance at Carry, Though he were milo, or John Ridd, I would toss him to Old Harry.
"Fringilla: Some Tales In Verse"
Richard Doddridge Blackmore
As the great bows glided by, missing the boat by a few yards, the three men stared aloft until they had almost cricked their necks; and aloft there, as Archelaus raised his lantern, the Commandant read the vessel's name-"milo"-glimmering in tall gilt letters.
"Major Vigoureux"
A. T. Quiller-Couch
The milo was clean out of her course.
"Major Vigoureux"
A. T. Quiller-Couch