Indeed, on that very evening of our arrival, as we strolled along the gaily-illuminated Digue towards the big, bright Kursaal, he turned to me suddenly and said: "When the hour comes, and Prussia in her greatness strikes them, this place will soon become German territory.
"The Secrets of Potsdam"
William Le Queux
For when the touring car made, on a quayside of Cherbourg's avant port, what was for its passengers its last stop of the night, the hour of eight bells was being sounded aboard the countless vessels that shouldered one another in the twin basins of the commercial harbour or rode at anchor between its granite jetties and the distant bulwark of the Digue.
"Alias The Lone Wolf"
Louis Joseph Vance
And let six men go down the Digue, and meet them.
"Historical Romances: Under the Red Robe, Count Hannibal, A Gentleman of France"
Stanley J. Weyman