As with Mutineer once, he had dropped his bridle, but there was no use in uttering, as he had, then, the trisyllable which had reduced the horse to order.
"The Honorable Peter Stirling and What People Thought of Him"
Paul Leicester Ford
Pennyloaf's legal name was Penelope, which, being pronounced as a trisyllable, transformed itself by further corruption into a sound at all events conveying some meaning.
"The Nether World"
George Gissing
2. Caesar's speech:- She dreamt last night, she saw my statue- No doubt, it should be statua, as in the same age, they more often pronounced 'heroes' as a trisyllable than dissyllable.
"Literary Remains, Vol. 2"
Coleridge