Politics are much discussed, so are banks, so is cotton. Quiet peopleavoid the question of the Presidency†the great constitutional feature of this institution being, that directly theacrimonyof the last election is over, the next one begins.

-Dickens, CharlesJohn Huffam
  American Notes.

The evil of it is, that it is a world wrapped up in too much jeweller's cotton and fine wool, and cannot hear the rushingofthelarger worlds, and cannot seethemasthey circle round the sun. It is a deadened world, and its growth is sometimes unhealthy for want of air.

-Dickens, CharlesJohn Huffam
^3  Of the world of fashion. Bleak House, ch.2.

Summer time an'the livin' is easy, Fish are jumpin'an'the cotton is high. Oh, yo'daddy's rich, and yo'ma isgood-lookin', So hush, little baby, don' yo'cry.

-Heyward, Du Bose
  'Summertime' from Porgy and Bess (with Ira Gershwin, music by George Gershwin).

The sun hums down through the cotton flowers of her dress into the bell of her heart and buzzes in the honey there and couches and kisses, lazy-loving and boozed, in her red-berried breast.

-Thomas, Dylan Marlais
  Under MilkWood.

From the [empty] carpet-bag she took out seven flannel night-gowns, four cotton ones, a pair of boots, a set of dominoes, two bathing-caps and a postcard album. Last of all came a folding camp-bedstead with blankets and eiderdown complete.

-Travers, P(amela) L(yndon)
  Mary Poppins, ch.1.