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  • ‘Hey, presto, cockolorum!’ cried the doctor, and, lo! on uncovering the shillings, they were all found congregated under one.

    The Life of Oliver Goldsmith 2004

  • "Here, hi! old cockolorum!" cried Bob, with his mouth full, as he turned to the Malay, "tell Mr Abdullah there, that his durians are 'licious -- luscious --' licious, but Mr Long likes mangosteens better."

    Middy and Ensign George Manville Fenn 1870

  • Sometimes, indeed, they would all join in some regular indoor boys 'game like "baste the bear," or "high-cockolorum"; or they would have amusing "ghost-hunts," as they called them, after some dressed-up boy among the dark corridors and staircases.

    Eric, or Little by Little 1867

  • 'Hey, presto, cockolorum!' cried the doctor, and, lo! on uncovering the shillings, they were all found congregated under one.

    Oliver Goldsmith Irving, Washington 1849

  • 'Toor rul lol loo, gammon and spinnage, the frog he wouldn't, and high cockolorum,' said the Dodger: with a slight sneer on his intellectual countenance.

    Oliver Twist Charles Dickens 1841

  • "Toor rul lol loo, gammon and spinnage, the frog he wouldn't, and high cockolorum," said the Dodger: with a slight sneer on his intellectual countenance.

    Oliver Twist 1838

  • 'Hey, presto, cockolorum!' cried the doctor, and, lo! on uncovering the shillings, they were all found congregated under one.

    Oliver Goldsmith A Biography Washington Irving 1821

  • ‘Toor rul lol loo, gammon and spinnage, the frog he wouldn’t, and high cockolorum,’ said the Dodger: with a slight sneer on his intellectual countenance.

    Oliver Twist 2007

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