It happened that the Pope delivered such an affecting address that all present were moved to tears and the unfortunate president who had disposed of his gaiters in the way just mentioned drew them out instead of his handkerchief and smeared his face over with mud - The Project Gutenberg Memoirs of Napoleon Bonaparte by Bourrienne, Constant, and Stewarton

And I'm afraid your calves weren't made for those gaiters - The Brother of Daphne by Dornford Yates

As he went in still staring at Madame Marneffe's windows he ran against a young man with a pale brow and sparkling gray eyes wearing a summer coat of black merino coarse drill trousers and tan shoes with gaiters rushing away headlong he saw him run to the house in the Rue du Doyenne into which he went - Cousin Betty by Honore de Balzac