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• 1901, J. H. Balfour Browne, “‘Roaring Games’”, in Essays in Paradox‎, Longmans, Green & Co., page 152:
  In those days, when Prince and Adam were my heroes, I had no "troakings" with lassies. "Troakings" came afterwards, and these deserve a whole essay to themselves.
• 1904, S. R. Crockett, Raiderland: All About Grey Galloway‎, Dodd, Mead & Co., page 83:
  But as soon as we had driven these same kings and queens into exile, we became tremendously loyal, and kept up constant trokings with the exiled at Carisbrook, in Holland, or drinking to "the king over the water."