ring-a-rosy

The Indian reserves came on quickly & there was a game of ring-a-rosy around the woods between the 4 Stugs, 3 Churchills & 4 M10s.

Camp Cromwell 19/06/07 Cromwell MkI 2007

The Indian reserves came on quickly & there was a game of ring-a-rosy around the woods between the 4 Stugs, 3 Churchills & 4 M10s.

Archive 2007-06-01 Cromwell MkI 2007

And instead of the tremendous winging excitement he had expected (or perhaps fear, or awe), there was nothing but the dim, atavistic guilt for the sudden, raging hate of his own blood moments earlier and the endless ring-a-rosy of the childhood song:

The Gunslinger King, Stephen, 1947- 1982

They adorn themselves in haste, fantastically, to charm him, with the flowers of the garden; singing a wooing song, of the most melting, persuasive, irresistible, they weave around him, circling as in a child's game of ring-a-rosy, sweeping the heady perfumes of their garlands under his nostrils.

The Wagnerian Romances Gertrude Hall Brownell 1912

I can tell you how she dance down the meadows in the ring-a-rosy play and how she -- "

The Landloper Holman Day 1900