"The glass is dropping like billy-ho, and there's a brute of a sea tumbling in.". From Wordnik.com. [The Submarine Hunters A Story of the Naval Patrol Work in the Great War] Reference
"You'll just have to practise like billy-ho!" said Betty Brierley, who was addicted to slang. From Wordnik.com. [The Youngest Girl in the Fifth A School Story] Reference
Pincher had got Lord Tottenham by the trouser leg and was holding on like billy-ho, so we started to run. From Wordnik.com. [The Story of the Treasure Seekers] Reference
And the stove roaring like billy-ho!. From Wordnik.com. [Death of a Harbormaster]
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