Examples from literature

• Few boys, I suppose, have not read with breathless emotion this most stirring of ballads: few men can read it without a thrill. 
• It was a voice new to her, and the words of his ballad were also new. 
• It, as well as many of the ballad tunes in this collection, was written from Mrs. Burns's voice. 
• The ballad of The Douglas Tragedy is one of the few, to which popular tradition has ascribed complete locality. 
• The following popular ballad will afford the reader a characteristic specimen of the whole tenderness of such a Russian parting scene.