Some of these last days were occupied in selecting from her jewels presents for Cornelia, with webs of gold and silver tissues, and Spitalfields silks so rich and heavy, that no mortal woman might hope to outwear them.
"The Maid of Maiden Lane"
Amelia E. Barr
Though a collectivist, with a firm belief in the government ownership of railroads everywhere, I might have been tempted at times in Italy to abjure my creed if I had not always reflected that the state there had just come into possession of the roads, with all their capitalistic faults of management and outwear of equipment which it would doubtless soon reform and repair.
"Roman Holidays and Others"
W. D. Howells
Sonnet 'Could I outwear my present state of woe' xvi.
"The Suppressed Poems of Alfred Lord Tennyson"
Alfred Lord Tennyson