To him one might almost apply what a welshman said of his friend: "I knew him when he wass a ferry poor man-quite a poor man walking about in the village; and now he drives in his carriage and twice!"
"The History of "Punch""
M. H. Spielmann
His eyes and hair were very black, and there was a certain peculiarity in his pronunciation that made Shirley think at first that he might be a welshman.
"Mrs. Cliff's Yacht"
Frank R. Stockton
At any rate they had one outside quarrel with an old welshman named Johns, a farmer of great importance in the place, who had sold them the land and tried, in their opinion, to cheat them afterwards about the boundaries.
"A Dozen Ways Of Love"
Lily Dougall