Bright blue trousers much too small for his stout legs, once the property, no doubt, of some sporting young gent of loud tastes in colours; a spotted fancy waistcoat, not long enough to meet the trousers, a dirty scarlet tie, long black frock-coat, shiny in places, and a small dirty grey cap which only covered the topmost part of his head of golden hair.
"Afoot in England"
W.H. Hudson
No, not the rustler, the gent between eighteen and forty-eight, object matrimony.
"Brand Blotters"
William MacLeod Raine
These lands continued in the crown 'till 1552, the fifth of Edward the Sixth, when, at the humble suit of the inhabitants, they were assigned to William Symmons, gent.
"An History of Birmingham (1783)"
William Hutton