She turned her back, he heard some gussets give, and the next moment she was holding a strange trophy in both hands.
"Stingaree"
E. W. (Ernest William) Hornung
There is no underclothing, with its bands, frills, gussets, and button-holes; the poorer women wear none, and those above them wear, like Yuki, an under-dress of a frothy-looking silk crepe, as simply made as the upper one.
"Unbeaten-Tracks-in-Japan"
Bird, Isabella L. (Isabella Lucy)
Jest to think on't-Christopher Columbus Allen, who had passed his hull life up in Maine, and then descended down onto us at such a time as this, when all the relations in Jonesville wuz jest riz up about the doin's of that great namesake of hisen-And the gussets wuz even then a-bein' cut out and sewed on to the shirt that wuz a-goin' to encompass Josiah Allen about as he went to Chicago to celebrate him- That then, on that Friday, P.M., about the time of day that the Injuns wuz a-kneelin' to the first Christopher, to think that Josiah Allen should walk in the new Columbus into our kitchen-why, I don't spoze a more singular and coincidin' circumstance ever happened before durin' the hull course of time.
"Samantha at the World's Fair"
Marietta Holley