“Okay, well, what do you think a Yankee-Doodle dandy is then?”.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Pursuit of Happiness] Reference

When Stranahan started to introduce Hewitt, Levy, from off stage, began playing “Yankee-Doodle.”.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Great Bridge] Reference

But the excess of terror seemed to stimulate him, so that almost of their own accord his fingers began to play "Yankee-Doodle.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves Kentucky Narratives] Reference

They came from Michigan, and were of the old colony stock, regular Yankee-Doodle folks, the older ones and many of the younger ones still using New England idioms and quaint phrases that came long ago from the East -- yes, from the holts of old England's.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 26, September, 1880] Reference

Yankee-Doodle donkey; try Yankee-Doodle! cries one.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Thousand Miles Up the Nile] Reference

But he was too much absorbed in stern theological dogmas to find the beauty of life or the gold of poesie; and his masterpiece, once prized by an immense circle of readers, seems now a grotesque affair, which might appear even horrible were it not rendered harmless by its jigging, Yankee-Doodle versification.    From Wordnik.com.  [Outlines of English and American Literature : an Introduction to the Chief Writers of England and America, to the Books They Wrote, and to the Times in Which They Lived] Reference

“What exactly is a Yankee-Doodle dandy?”.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Pursuit of Happiness] Reference

The musicians struck up Yankee-Doodle.    From Wordnik.com.  [Winning His Way] Reference

Yankee-Doodle!.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 07, No. 41, March, 1861] Reference