There was always an arm-chair for Peter de Groodt, sometimes called Long Peter, and sometimes Peter longlegs, the clerk and sexton of the little Lutheran church, who was her great crony, and indeed the oracle of her fire-side.
"Bracebridge Hall, or The Humorists"
Washington Irving
Time passed, and I had forgotten the circumstance altogether, when some years afterwards, looking over some old pocket-books, I found a sealed letter addressed to 'Daddy longlegs, Esq.
"The History of "Punch""
M. H. Spielmann
Spotty the Turtle was also there, not to mention longlegs the Heron.
"The-Burgess-Animal-Book-for-Children"
Burgess, Thornton W. (Thornton Waldo)