Memories of their own youth made some of them set “home work,” and it was no uncommon thing to run across a doughty warrior, most unacademically dressed in ragged khaki, seeking in vain for some quiet corner of the garden where he might wrestle uninterrupted with the latest vagaries of x , or convert into graceful Urdu a sonorous passage from the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire .
— from The Road to En-Dor Being an Account of How Two Prisoners of War at Yozgad in Turkey Won Their Way to Freedom by E. H. (Elias Henry) Jones

We were preceded by two sedan chairs borne by four coolies, each dressed in red kilted skirts and white turbans.
— from My Trip Around the World: August, 1895-May, 1896 by Eleonora Hunt