Altogether the effect was very singular the huge rough mass of jumbled rock and soil, the ruin wrought by Nature in one of her cromwellian moods, and, scattered irregularly about its surface, the plots or patches of cultivated smoothness-potato rows, green parallel lines ruled on a grey ground, and big, blue-green, equidistant cabbage-globes-each plot with its fringe of spike-like onion leaves, crinkled parsley, and other garden herbs.
"Afoot in England"
W.H. Hudson
But it was in vain then for the tenants either to resist the lord's pretensions or to assert their own; such being Mr. Maijor's power and interest with the cromwellian Government as to enable him, as they well knew, easily to defeat all their efforts.
"John Keble's Parishes"
Charlotte M Yonge
They turned out to be-on the right of my Lord, the minister, Mr. Ferguson-he who had been spoken of before as an informant from Bristol; and a Colonel Rumsey-an old cromwellian like the maltster of Hoddesdon-who sat next to Mr. Ferguson.
"Oddsfish!"
Robert Hugh Benson