1865Alices Adventures in Wonderland'' by Lewis Carroll.
"You are old, father William," the young man said,
"And your hair has become very white;
And yet you incessantly stand on your head--
Do you think, at your age, it is right?"
1865, Henry David Thoreau, Cape Cod, Chapter I. "The Shipwreck", page 14.
There were the tawny rocks, like lions couchant, defying the ocean, whose waves incessantly dashed against and scoured them with vast quantities of gravel.