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His comrades nicknamed him Jean the Jack.
Victor Hugo • Les Miserables (Les Misérables)
If there was anyone to whom the brothers were indebted for their upbringing and education for the rest of their lives, it was to this Yefim Petrovich, a most generous and humane man, of a kind rarely found.
Larissa Volokhonsky • The Brothers Karamazov: A Novel in Four Parts With Epilogue
Marcelin Albert
Isabella Hammad • The Parisian
Napoleon went to St. Helena; Quoil came to Walden Woods. All I know of him is tragic. He was a man of manners, like one who had seen the world, and was capable of more civil speech than you could well attend to.
Henry David Thoreau • Walden (AmazonClassics Edition)
Father grinned and winked at his visitor. Joe Kane decided that the man who confronted him was mildly insane but harmless.