Whole rows of days of buttonholes down pleats that were often groped at through tears.
"The Vertical City"
Fannie Hurst
Then, they go down to the supper tables, where are seated two or three old men in old time costume: white belt, black blouse, very short, with a thousand pleats.
"Ramuntcho"
Pierre Loti
As we raced along, the furrows, running at right angles to the road, seemed to be eddying away from us in pleats and curves, and this illusion of a stationary car in a whirling landscape was fortified by the contours of the countryside, which were those of a great plain, great as any sea, stretching away to a horizon of low chalk hills.
"Leaves from a Field Note-Book"
J. H. Morgan