Madelon

"Yes, yes, certainly I know," he answered hastily, and with some annoyance; "but -- in short, Madelon, you are too young to trouble your head about these things; you cannot understand them possibly; when you are older you shall have them explained to you."

My Little Lady Eleanor Frances Poynter

"I hope to see more of the world than you would quite like, I fancy, Madelon, that is, if we have any luck and get ordered out to the Crimea."

My Little Lady Eleanor Frances Poynter

Of "Madelon," which was not her middle name, I know a little something, for even half a century later my mother still found it more beautiful than her actual "Madeline," and still wished her parents, about whom I know almost nothing, had bestowed it on her.

Tom Engelhardt: Borrowed Time: The World at 65 2009

We swung on up-river, the gun-boats keeping pace and the Frog band thumping "Madelon", for now Pekin was barely thirty miles ahead, and we were going to see the elephant at last, seven thousand cavalry and infantry ready for anything, not that it mattered for the Manchoo protests had subsided to whines of resignation, and we were coming home on a tight rein, hurrah, boys, hurrah!

Flashman and the Dragon Fraser, George MacDonald, 1925- 1985

We swung on up-river, the gun-boats keeping pace and the Frog band thumping "Madelon", for now Pekin was barely thirty miles ahead, and we were going to see the elephant at last, seven thousand cavalry and infantry ready for anything, not that it mattered for the Manchoo protests had subsided to whines of resignation, and we were coming home on a tight rein, hurrah, boys, hurrah!

Flashman And The Dragon Fraser, George MacDonald, 1925- 1985

We swung on up-river, the gun-boats keeping pace and the Frog band thumping "Madelon", for now Pekin was barely thirty miles ahead, and we were going to see the elephant at last, seven thousand cavalry and infantry ready for anything, not that it mattered for the Manchoo protests had subsided to whines of resignation, and we were coming home on a tight rein, hurrah, boys, hurrah!

Flashman and the Dragon Fraser, George MacDonald, 1925- 1985

"Madelon," said Horace, stooping down, and trying to take her hands; "my little Madelon, my poor little child!"

My Little Lady Eleanor Frances Poynter

"Madelon," he said, going up to her, "what is the matter? has anything happened, or any one vexed you?"

My Little Lady Eleanor Frances Poynter

The Americans were the first to bring "Madelon" to Beaufort.

One of Ours Willa Sibert Cather 1910

Of "Madelon," which was not her middle name, I know a little something, for even half a century later my mother still found it more beautiful than her actual "Madeline," and still wished her parents, about whom I know almost nothing, had bestowed it on her.

Antiwar.com Original 2009