No sound but the distant hum of traffic in the town, the inarticulate shout of a sailor on one of the ships outside, and the rock-row rock-row of the oars in the ROL-locks of some unseen boat gliding into the harbor below.
"Capt'n Davy's Honeymoon 1893"
Hall Caine
But like all the fake fol-de-ROL with which I had come in contact, he did not even make an impression.
"Stammering, Its Cause and Cure"
Benjamin Nathaniel Bogue
There was no romantic shilly-shallying fol-de-ROL about him.
"The Fighting Chance"
Robert W. Chambers