The land lies desolate and stripped; Across its waste has thinly strayed A tattered host of eucalypt. From whose gaunt uniform is made A ragged penury of shade.

-Adams, Arthur Henry
  'Written in  Australia', in The Collected Verses of  Arthur H Adams.

Encased in talent like a uniform, The rank of every poet is well known; They can amaze us like a thunderstorm, Or die so young, or live for years alone.

-Auden,W(ystan) H(ugh)
  'The Novelist'.

We know, Mr.Welleröwe, who are men of the world öthat a good uniform must work its way with the women, sooner or later.

-Dickens, CharlesJohn Huffam
^7  The Gentleman in Blue. Pickwick Papers, ch.37.

The love that loves a scarlet coat Should be more uniform.

-Honorius of Autun
  'Faithless Nelly Gray'.

The uniform 'e wore Was nothin'much before, An'rather less than 'arf o'that be'ind.

-Kipling, (Joseph) Rudyard
  'Gunga Din'.