"Accipe quæ nimios vincant umbracula soles; Sit licet et ventus, te tua vela tegent."

"We bear our shades about us; self-deprived Of other screen, the thin umbrella spread, And range an Indian waste witho…"

"Of doues I haue a dainty paire Which, when you please to take the aier, About your head shall gently houer, Your clee…"

"Good housewives all the winter's rage despise, Defended by the riding-hood's disguise; Or, underneath the umbrella's …"

"When my water-proof umbrella proved a sieve, sieve, sieve, When my shiny new umbrella proved a sieve."

"The inseparable gold umbrella which in that country [Burma] as much denotes the grandee as the star or garter does in…"

"See, here's a shadow found; the human nature Is made th' umbrella to the Deity, To catch the sunbeams of thy just Cre…"

"It is the habitual carriage of the umbrella that is the stamp of Respectability. The umbrella has become the acknowle…"

"Umbrellas, like faces, acquire a certain sympathy with the individual who carries them…. May it not be said of the be…"

"The tucked-up sempstress walks with hasty strides, While streams run down her oil'd umbrella's sides."