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Examples
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The whiskey was sarved out in tubs and buckets, for they'd scorn to drink ale or porter; and as for the ating, there was laygions of fat bacon and cabbage for the sarvants, and a throop of legs of mutton for the king and his coort.
Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 1, December 11, 1841 Various
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He that s campin apart from us, joined wid the throop who shift quarters no more;
A Curlew's Call 1895
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OR ARE THESE PEOPLE NOT GOING TO BE COUNTED IS THIS THE USA OR THE DNC LAWS OR DID OBAMAS ATTORNEYS STOP THAT SO HE COULD PARTY HIS WAY THROUGH WAKE UP MCCAIN AND HILLARY WHAT A GREAT CAMPIN IN THE FALL OBAMA A FLASH IN THE PAN AND A WORRY TO ALL AMERICANS roy throop
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"'Th' sicrety iv state was visited yisterdah be throop B iv th '
Observations By Mr. Dooley Finley Peter Dunne 1901
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"Pray to the Saints, you may niver see cholera in a throop-thrain!
Indian Tales Rudyard Kipling 1900
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