Remember that it was a nerf de boeuf.
"Monsieur Cherami"
Charles Paul de Kock
What a curious idea of those Chinese to make canes with nerfs de boeuf!
"Monsieur Cherami"
Charles Paul de Kock
When Mrs. Radcliffe, at the date definitely given of 1584, talks about "the Parisian opera," represents a French girl of the sixteenth century as being "instructed in the English poets," and talks about driving in a "landau," the individual blunders are, perhaps, not more violent than those of the chronology by which Scott's Ulrica is apparently a girl at the time of the Conquest and a woman, not too old to be the object of rivalry between Front de boeuf and his father, not long before the reign of Richard I. But this last oversight does not affect the credibility of the story, or the homogeneity of the manners, in the least.
"The English Novel"
George Saintsbury