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Updated: May 24, 2025

A fourth was certainly old Franklin, in his cap and spectacles. A fifth as surely bore the dignified composure of the face of Washington. A sixth was a nondescript, representing “a man with a shirt-collar open,” to use the language of Richard, “with a laurel on his head-it was Julius Caesar or Dr. Faustus; there were good reasons for believing either,”

James Fenimore Cooper - The Pioneers

He turned toward Helen: "May I conduct you to the rude carriage we have prepared?" Helen gathered her mantle about her; and the knight, throwing his scarf over her head-it had no other covering-she gave him her hand, and he led her out on the hut to the side of the bier. It was overlaid with the men's plaids.

Jane Porter - The Scottish Chiefs