His wardrobe was extensive—very extensive—not strictly classical perhaps, nor quite new, nor did it contain any one garment made precisely after the fashion of any age or time, but every thing was more or less spangled; and what can be prettier than spangles?
1872, James De Mille, The Cryptogram[1], published 2009:
The old man and his wife bestirred themselves to make every thing ready for the unexpected guests, […]
