- June 21, 1848, N.Y. Herald General Cass is some pumpkins, and will do the needful in the office line, if he is elected.
- I’ve just run down from Ulster County to look at the town, bein’ that the hayin’s over with. Gosh! but it’s a whopper. I thought Poughkeepsie was some punkins^([sic]); but this here town is five times as big.1910, O. Henry [pseudonym; William Sydney Porter], “The Poet and the Peasant”, in Strictly Business: More Stories of the Four Million, New York, N.Y.: Doubleday, Page & Company, →OCLC: