—The Lord Abbot had a soul Subtile and quick, and searching as the fire; By magic stairs he went as deep as hell, And if in devils’ possession gold be kept, He brought some sure from thence—‘tis hid in caves, Known, save to me, to none.— The Wonder of a Kingdome.
— from The Antiquary — Complete by Walter Scott

He saw handsome girls with coal-black hair and fresh complexions, who wore short and thick blue petticoats, with a scarlet tartan shawl wrapped round their bosom and fastened at the waist; stalwart, thick-set men, in loose blue jacket and trowsers and scarlet cap, many of them with bushy red beards; and women of extraordinary breadth of shoulder, who carried enormous loads in a creel strapped on their back, while they employed their hands in contentedly knitting stockings as they passed along.
— from Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Volume 11, No. 24, March, 1873 by Various