Give all your motions, too, an air of douceur, which is directly the reverse of their present celerity and rapidity. From Wordnik.com. [Letters to his son on The Art of Becoming a Man of the World and a Gentleman] Reference
The "douceur" of their sweet pitifulness towards him runs like a quivering magnetic current through all the maddest fancies of his wayward imagination. From Wordnik.com. [Suspended Judgments Essays on Books and Sensations] Reference
There would be a present or douceur to the king of. From Wordnik.com. [An Account of Timbuctoo and Housa Territories in the Interior of Africa] Reference
La douceur de ta peau est comme une caresse du vent. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2009-04-01] Reference
Pousse le caddie en douceur, en sueur dans le rayon frais de mon supermarché capitaliste. From Wordnik.com. [Forever or until (Music (For Robots))] Reference
Mr. Oswell Livingstone generously paid him a douceur for the promise of doing his work thoroughly. From Wordnik.com. [How I Found Livingstone] Reference
You will say, perhaps, What, am I always to be studying my countenance, in order to wear this douceur?. From Wordnik.com. [Letters to his son on The Art of Becoming a Man of the World and a Gentleman] Reference
Cependant, les esclaves sont généralement traités avec plus de douceur par leurs maîtres dans l'État de. From Wordnik.com. [The Journal of Negro History, Volume 1, January 1916] Reference
The mysterious negotiations contained a distinct demand by Talleyrand of a douceur of 1,200,000 livres to the. From Wordnik.com. [Albert Gallatin American Statesmen Series, Vol. XIII] Reference
George went to police headquarters, and giving a douceur to an attendant, had the "vise" put on his passport at once. From Wordnik.com. [Bidwell's Travels, from Wall Street to London Prison Fifteen Years in Solitude] Reference
The scene was ended by the sudden entrance of Buttons, who, motioning to Mr. Figgs, proceeded to give each waiter a douceur. From Wordnik.com. [The Dodge Club or, Italy in MDCCCLIX] Reference
I find the choice of “mansuétude” really pleasing as the word implies “douceur”, “bonté”, “bienveillance”. From Wordnik.com. [mansuetude - French Word-A-Day] Reference
I find the choice of “mansuétude” really pleasing as the word implies “douceur”, “bonté”, “bienveillance”. From Wordnik.com. [mansuetude - French Word-A-Day] Reference
In the decades following the French Revolution, the douceur de vivre of the vanished ancien régime was much regretted by older commentators. From Wordnik.com. [What Have We Learned, If Anything?] Reference
One can never be sure who will swallow his douceur at an easy gulp, so as hardly to betray an effort, and who will refuse even to open his lips. From Wordnik.com. [Lady Anna] Reference
She is conscious of the douceur de la vie of the old time; also of the narrow callow brazen world that that time was rendering all gold, or trying to. From Wordnik.com. [A Lost World] Reference
So our adventurer agreed, if the sum Of � were paid to him as a douceur, and the rest of the party satisfied, why, he was content to let the matter drop. From Wordnik.com. [Ralph Rashleigh] Reference
The next morning Tickery received a douceur of 1,000 rupees from the. From Wordnik.com. [Prisoners Their Own Warders A Record of the Convict Prison at Singapore in the Straits Settlements Established 1825] Reference
"Le style," he says, "est comme le bonheur; il vient de la douceur de l'âme.". From Wordnik.com. [Evolution, Old & New Or, the Theories of Buffon, Dr. Erasmus Darwin and Lamarck, as compared with that of Charles Darwin] Reference
We all know the Spanish sentries, and I think their hands are always ready to receive some little douceur. From Wordnik.com. [The Chronicles of a Gay Gordon] Reference
If his graces do not captivate them, he will enrage them to fury; for I take all his douceur to be enamelled on iron. From Wordnik.com. [The Letters of Horace Walpole, Earl of Orford — Volume 3] Reference
At the same time that I see all their ridicules, there is a douceur in the society of the women of fashion that captivates me. From Wordnik.com. [The Letters of Horace Walpole, Earl of Orford — Volume 3] Reference
I could have broken the rascal's thick skull, but that the queenly douceur gave proof of the satisfaction with which my offering had been received. From Wordnik.com. [The War Trail The Hunt of the Wild Horse] Reference
I had paid twenty-four pounds for my dawk, from Caragola to the hills, to which I had been obliged to add a handsome douceur; so I lost all patience. From Wordnik.com. [Himalayan Journals — Complete] Reference
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