Every gig-man in the Kildare Street wears it in his buttonhole, and the ladies of Merrion Square are found to be Gartered with it.
"Muslin"
George Moore
Such was the force exerted by the torrent on one side, and the desperate lover on the other, that not her shoes only, but her stockings, though Gartered, were torn off her in that fierce struggle.
"Put Yourself in His Place"
Charles Reade
This family, if any branch of it remained in Shakespeare's time, might have been proud of their Dramatic ally, if indeed they could have any fair pretence to claim as such him whom Shakespeare, perhaps in contempt of Cowardice, wrote Falstaff, not Fastolfe, the true Historic name of the Gartered Craven.
"Eighteenth Century Essays on Shakespeare"
D. Nichol Smith