New York was amused at the singularly appropriate appelative, and it has stuck to the prison ever since.— The Third Degree A Narrative of Metropolitan Life
-- Sir John Poley's frog may have been a device alluding to his name; I imagine that Poley is an appelative of frogs.— Notes and Queries, Number 18, March 2, 1850
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