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Examples
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Robson gave every stanza a nonsensical refrain of "Right tooral lol looral, right tooral lol lay."
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"Right tooral lol looral" into a speech delivered at the opening of circuit.
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The old men of pleasure (with their tooral ooral) got at least some social and communal virtue out of pleasure.
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The new men of pleasure (without the slightest vestige of a tooral ooral) are simply hermits of irreligion instead of religion, anchorites of atheism, and they might as well be drugging themselves with hashish or opium in a wilderness.
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I like to think of my ancestors, middle-aged or venerable gentlemen, all sitting round a table and explaining that they would never forget old days or friends with a rumpty-iddity-iddity, or letting it be known that they would die for England's glory with their tooral ooral, etc.
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With her tooral ooral, etc.; "or, again:" The young curate smiled grimly as he listened to his great-grandmother's last words.
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You can always fall back on 'tooral looral lido,' if you can't think of anything else.
The Merryweathers Laura Elizabeth Howe Richards 1896
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Did you hear the gods in chorus when 'Ri-tooral' held the stage?
In the Days When the World Was Wide and Other Verses Henry Lawson 1894
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One grows tired doing the pastoral and tooral-ooral -- I mean truly rural -- and craves for shops, and gaslight, and glitter, and crowds of human beings once more.
A Terrible Secret May Agnes Fleming 1860
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According to this arrangement, Pax found himself, not many days after, revelling in the enjoyment of what he styled "tooral-ooral" felicity -- among cows and hay, sunshine and milk, buttercups and cream, green meadows and blue skies, -- free as a butterfly from telegraphic messagery and other postal cares.
Post Haste 1859
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