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Queen Victoria herself used to have the pipers file out before her at Balmoral to the "skirling" of "Bonnie Dundee," "Over the Water to Charlie," and "Wha'll Be King but Charlie!"
Famous Affinities of History — Volume 1 Lyndon Orr
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Queen Victoria herself used to have the pipers file out before her at Balmoral to the "skirling" of "Bonnie Dundee," "Over the Water to Charlie," and "Wha'll Be King but Charlie!"
Famous Affinities of History — Complete Lyndon Orr
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"Wha'll black them boots now?" said Jack in a sentimental tone.
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The pipes crashed out a measure of "Wha'll be King but Charlie?" then fell into quiet sudden as they had begun.
A Daughter of Raasay A Tale of the '45 William MacLeod Raine 1912
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THE END OF THE WORLD: _ (with a Scotch accent) _ Wha'll dance the keel row, the keel row, the keel row?
Ulysses James Joyce 1911
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For a century the bones of both the Pretenders have moldered in alien soil; the names of James Edward, and Charles Edward, which were once trumpet blasts to rouse armed men, mean as little to the multitude of today as those of the Saxon Ethelbert, and Danish Hardicanute, yet the world goes on singing -- and will probably as long as the English language is spoken -- "Wha'll be King but Charlie?"
Andersonville John McElroy 1887
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For a century the bones of both the Pretenders have moldered in alien soil; the names of James Edward, and Charles Edward, which were once trumpet blasts to rouse armed men, mean as little to the multitude of today as those of the Saxon Ethelbert, and Danish Hardicanute, yet the world goes on singing -- and will probably as long as the English language is spoken -- "Wha'll be King but Charlie?"
Andersonville — Volume 3 John McElroy 1887
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"Wha'll that be, lucky deddy (grandfather)?" inquired, in a respectful voice, the woman who had last spoken, while those within hearing hushed each other and stood in silence.
The Marquis of Lossie George MacDonald 1864
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'Wha'll be King but Charley?' and other humdrum airs, which ravish with delight the ears of warriors who have never smelt powder.
Perley's Reminiscences, v. 1-2 of Sixty Years in the National Metropolis Benjamin Perley Poore 1853
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Britannia, '' and ` ` Wha'll be King but Charlie? '' the Italians and
Two Years Before the Mast Richard Henry Dana 1848
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