One sought out one's little wife and rested one's brain; one took one's son on one's knee; one pulled, perhaps, the plait of one's daughter.
"The Pastor's Wife"
Elizabeth von Arnim
Mrs. Dennison drooped her eyes in delicate sympathy, and, taking a fold of the muslin dress, which fell like billows of snow over the carpet, began to plait it thoughtfully between her fingers.
"Wives and Widows; or The Broken Life"
Ann S. Stephens
A girl was coming across the grass to meet him, a girl at the awkward age, with her dark hair in a plait and her black dress neither long nor short.
"Peccavi"
E. W. Hornung