In the outing dress he wore at home he was always effective, but there was something in Jeff's figure which did not lend itself to more formal fashion; something of herculean proportion which would have marked him of a classic beauty perhaps if he had not been in clothes at all, or of a Yeomanly vigor and force if he had been clad for work, but which seemed to threaten the more worldly conceptions of the tailor with danger.
"The Landlord at Lion's Head, Complete"
William Dean Howells Last Updated: February 27, 2009
Well could he dress his tackle Yeomanly: His arrows drooped not with feathers low, And in his hand he bare a mighty bow.
"Chaucer"
Adolphus William Ward
He did not drive him from his shelter in the Moors, because he had unwarily passed his word-his word, which, with Yeomanly pride, John Cobham held sacred as his bond-to let him remain until he committed some offence; but, for this offence, both he and Daniel watched and waited with an impatience and irritability which contrasted strangely with the honourable self-restraint that withheld him from direct abuse of his power.
"Jesse Cliffe"
Mary Russell Mitford