"There is no need of him for that," said Charles IX., after an instant's thought: "Ci-gît,—mais c'est mal entendu, Pour lui le mot est trop honnête,— Ici l'amiral est pendu Par les pieds, à faute de tête."
— from Marguerite de Valois by Alexandre Dumas

[Pg 67] if he promises after he has become of age that he will pay these debts, from which he might escape, thereafter he is liable.
— from Commercial Law by Richard William Hill

And after a moments reflection, "Listen, gentlemen," said he— "Ci-gît, mais c'est mal entendu, Pour lui le mot est trop honnête, Ici l'amiral est pendu, Par les pieds, à faute de tête."
— from Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 58, No. 359, September 1845 by Various

If you should see that great gentlewoman, Mrs. Elliot, tell her I lost my life in saving the colors she gave to our regiment.
— from The Life of General Francis Marion by M. L. (Mason Locke) Weems

Indeed, if we may believe the chroniclers, never in the memory of man had any city incurred so much expense to honour its lord.
— from Charles the Bold, Last Duke of Burgundy, 1433-1477 by Ruth Putnam