His apparel gave me no clue to the age he belonged to; it was no better, indeed, than a sort of masquerading attire, as though the fashions of more than one country, and perhaps of more than one age, had gone to the Habiting of him.
"The Frozen Pirate"
W. Clark Russell
Bring words as pure as rills of earliest Spring In some far cranny of the hillside born To stitch again the earth's green Habiting;- Words lonely as the long, blue fields of morn;- Words on the wistful lyre of winds forlorn To the sad ear of grief from distance blown; Thin bleat of fawn and airy babble of birds; Sounds of bright water slipping on the stone Where the thrilled fountain pipes to woodland words.
"Poems"
Muriel Stuart
He therefore got quietly up, and Habiting himself in the hat and gown of a priest, mounted the fleetest mule of the lot, and reaching the high-road, in breathless anxiety, set out at full speed toward Jolliffee, confident that he would overtake or get some tidings of his straying army on the road.
"The Life and Adventures of Maj. Roger Sherman Potter"
"Pheleg Van Trusedale" A pseudonym for Francis Colburn Adams