Yankee-Doodle

“Okay, well, what do you think a Yankee-Doodle dandy is then?”

The Pursuit of Happiness Tara Altebrando 2006

When Stranahan started to introduce Hewitt, Levy, from off stage, began playing “Yankee-Doodle.”

The Great Bridge David McCullough 1972

Let's have Yankee-Doodle and the Rogue's March for, by the etarnal Old Scratch, all them white men that ar'n't a-horse-back in twenty-five minutes, are rogues worse than red Injuns!

Nick of the Woods Robert M. Bird

They came from Michigan, and were of the old colony stock, regular Yankee-Doodle folks, the older ones and many of the younger ones still using New England idioms and quaint phrases that came long ago from the East -- yes, from the holts of old England's

Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 26, September, 1880 Various

But the excess of terror seemed to stimulate him, so that almost of their own accord his fingers began to play "Yankee-Doodle."

Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves Kentucky Narratives Work Projects Administration

But he was too much absorbed in stern theological dogmas to find the beauty of life or the gold of poesie; and his masterpiece, once prized by an immense circle of readers, seems now a grotesque affair, which might appear even horrible were it not rendered harmless by its jigging, Yankee-Doodle versification.

Outlines of English and American Literature : an Introduction to the Chief Writers of England and America, to the Books They Wrote, and to the Times in Which They Lived William Joseph Long 1909

Yankee-Doodle donkey; try Yankee-Doodle! cries one.

A Thousand Miles Up the Nile 1891

According to their press material, among the gay "heroes" to be weaved into the curriculum at the Pride Campus are expatriate American writer Gertrude Stein, as well as author James Baldwin, who advocated a "Yankee-Doodle type Socialism" and spent many years abroad attacking America.

Pat Dollard | Young Americans 2008

The Yankee-Doodle dandy in the song might be a real live nephew of Uncle Sam but they can’t all be.

The Pursuit of Happiness Tara Altebrando 2006