For it is the maddest trick a man can play in his whole life to go out like the snuff of a candle, and die merely of the Mulligrubs!"
"The Worlds Greatest Books Vol. II: Fiction"
Arthur Mee, J. A. Hammerton, Eds.
I was afraid you were sick of the Mulligrubs, with eating chopt hay; you had better go back to her at once if she wants you, for if you don't with a good grace, she'll very likely come and take you back by the collar,' and Miss Mag and O'Flaherty joined in a derisive hee-haw, to Puddock's considerable confusion, who bowed and smiled again, and tried to laugh, till the charming couple relieved him by taking their places in the dance.
"The House by the Church-Yard"
J. Sheridan Le Fanu