I was not one of these men-these anarchists-but it is only that all my life I 'ave wanted adventure, what you call ro-mance.
"Fortitude"
Hugh Walpole
As the "chaffer" shuffled off, Buck Bradley began to hum: "I knew at dawn, when de rooster crowed, Dere wuz gwine ter be trouble on de Gran' Trunk ro-ad!"
"The Border Boys Across the Frontier"
Fremont B. Deering
There they, likewise, bent their tall heads and suggested-though they did not sing-the couplet: "Oh that a Dutchman's draught might be As deep as the ro-o-olling Zuyder-Zee!"
"The Settler and the Savage"
R.M. Ballantyne