Here might be seen the black Ethiopian with wooly matted hair, in which a few feathers were stuck-the handsome, well proportioned "Son of the desert" from the sandy Arabian shore of the Red Sea, who performed his wild war-dance flourishing his lance, with a peculiar wriggle of his-hips pale Sardinians, with metal helmets and heavy swords-light colored Libyans, with tattooed arms and ostrich-feathers on their heads-brown, bearded Arabs, worshippers of the stars, inseparable from their horses, and armed, some with lances, and some with bows and arrows.
"The Complete Historical Romances of Georg Ebers"
Georg Ebers
He confirmed to me the business of the want of paper at the Council-table the other day, which I have observed; wooly being to have found it, and did, being called, tell the King to his face the reason of it; and Mr. Evelyn tells me several of the menial servants of the Court lacking bread, that have not received a farthing wages since the King's coming in.
"Diary of Samuel Pepys, Complete Transcribed From The Shorthand Manuscript In The Pepysian Library Magdalene College Cambridge By The Rev. Mynors Bright"
Samuel Pepys Commentator: Lord Braybrooke
One day I had to actually drive her out of my room, but it warn't but a little while before she put her wooly head in again.
"Letters of Major Jack Downing, of the Downingville Militia"
Seba Smith