galiant effort

[Paul Frank]

> Poster:       Jonathan Lighter <wuxxmupp2000 at YAHOO.COM>
> "Galliant" was a relatively common pronunciation in 19th C. ballads.

While we're at it:

'Liar yourself, Cris,' said Lew, slipping an arm round her. 'I'm goin'. When
the Reg'ment marches out you'll see me with 'em, all galliant and gay. Give
us another kiss, Cris, on the strength of it.'
        Rudyard Kipling, Under the Deodars ; the Phantom 'Rickshaw ; Wee
Willie Winkie, Doubleday, Page & Company, 1918, p. 304.

But the Kernul, when 'e 'eard of our galliant conduct, 'e sez: -- 'Hi know
there's been some devilry somewheres,' sez 'e, 'but hi can't bring it 'ome
to you three.'"
        Rudyard Kipling, Plain Tales from the Hills, Bernhard Tauchnitz, p.
80.

THE YOUNG INVINCIBLE. -- I sing of a Nincumpoop so galliant and gay (4 vs.
and chor.)
        Edwin Wolf 2nd, American Song Sheets, Slip Ballads and Poetical
Broadsides, 1850-1870, Kraus Reprint Corp., 1963, p. 184.

"Yes, and by all accounts 'tis true. And naterelly they'll be mowed down
like grass; and you among'em, poor young galliant officer!"
        Thomas Hardy, The Trumpet-Major, Oxford University Press, 1998, p.
54.

Down at home here biding with his own folk a bit I zid en walking with them
on the Esplanade yesterday. He looks ten years older than he did when he
went. Ay--he brought the galliant hero home!
        Thomas Hardy, The Dynasts: An Epic-Drama of the War with Napoleon,
in Three Parts, Nineteen Acts, and One Hundred and Thirty Scenes, the Time
Covered by the Action Being about Ten Years, Macmillan, 1920, p. 136.

I'll sing you a song, not very long,
But the story somewhat new
Of William Kidd, who, whatever he did,
To his Poll was always true.
He sailed away in a galliant ship
>From the port of old Bri stol,
And the last words he uttered,
As his hankercher he fluttered,
Were, "My heart is true to Poll."
His heart was true to Poll,
His heart was true to Poll.
        Carolyn Wells, An Outline of Humor: Being a True Chronicle from
Prehistoric Ages to the Twentieth Century, G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1923, p. 523.

"Our galliant Captain Charles M. Prevost, who is really a gentleman at heart
and in action, called me aside from squad drill and said that, as our
company had been ordered out for field duty with the Regiment next Tuesday,
and believing that I would like to experience camp life au fond, he had
detailed me and one other private to repair to our camp ground, six miles
out of the city, the night before (that is Monday), when we would stand
duty, sleep in tent, and so on; and be ready in the morning to join in the
regimental evolution, etc. So you see I am in for it and shall see something
practical in the bold 'solger's' life."
        Elizabeth Robins Pennell, Charles Godfrey Leland: A Biography,
Houghton Mifflin, 1906, p. 269.

And when he left, his sweetheart she fainted away.
And said she could never forget the sad day
When her lover so noble, and galliant and gay,
Said "Fare you well, my true love!" and went marching away.
        James Whitcomb Riley, The Complete Works of James Whitcomb Riley
Vol. 2, Harper & Brothers Publishers, 1916, p. 387.


Paul
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