INDER—a thin rag; such, for instance, as the dresses of modern females, intended to catch the sparks, raise a flame, and light up a match.
Horace Smith, The Tin Trumpet.
ON DRESS.
E who a gold-finch strives to make his wife
Makes her, perhaps, a wag-tail all her life.
A Collection of Epigrams (1727).
F Lafayette]: The world is surprised that there was once an honest man: the situation remains vacant.
Heinrich Heine, Thoughts and Fancies.