"Gavroche, that is mon dogue, ma dague et ma digue, a slang expression of the Temple, which signifies my dog, my knife, and my wife, greatly in vogue among clowns and the red-tails in the great century when Moliere wrote and Callot drew."
"Rudolph carried his bonne dague de Tolède, and, when George Sand dined at a restaurant, her virtue was protected from tyrants by an elegant dagger."
"This weapon, upon which we have fallen so unexpectedly, is a true < i > dague </i >, one of those worn by gentlemen in their belts during the sixteenth century."