Napoleon's correspondence shows that, by the close of the year 1803, he had abandoned that first fatuous scheme which gained him from the wits of Paris the soubriquet of "Don Quixote de la Manche."
"The Life of Napoleon I (Volumes, 1 and 2)"
John Holland Rose
They only know me as "Captain Forster," or more specifically as "The Captain," this soubriquet being extended to me as the only person in the place entitled to it.
"The Boy Tar"
Mayne Reid
Of all this I was very proud, and it was my costume as much as aught else, that led to my receiving the soubriquet of the "Boy Tar."
"The Boy Tar"
Mayne Reid