I declare I am as hungry as a moudiewort in a black frost,' said the douce Provost.
She wore a douce black silk dress, with a douce lace collar.
The industry of Reed, Steevens, and Douce has supplied us with several passages from old literature in which this characteristic of the robin is referred to.
The present ballad is also in the Douce Collection and in that of the late Mr. George Daniel.
Ye'll no mind that Captain White and my puir Halfpenny listed the same time, and always forgathered as became douce lads.
I never saw a face I liked better, or a lad that was mair douce and canny--I thought he had been some gentleman under trouble.
Percy in the text, Mr. Douce told me that he (Percy) read to him one day from the MS.
It's a shame to hear a douce young lad speak in that way, since a' the warld kens that they maun either marry or do waur.
I regret to inform you that you are no longer the great heiress; the whole of your capital was placed in the hands of Mr. Douce for the completion of the purchase of Lisle Court.
Douce of Provence blushed, and even thought proper to make some maidenly opposition to an arrangement so pleasing to herself.
He therefore fixed the marriage for that day week; and Douce of Provence was so submissive a vassal, that she never even thought of requesting her lord paramount for the delay of a single day.
The emperor rose and cried, “Well struck;” Douce waved her scarf; the empress fell on her knees and gave thanks to God for her deliverance.
Two eminent antiquaries, Douce and Ritson, sometimes conceived that Bretagne meant England; a circumstance which might upset a whole hypothesis.
I would not say for that; he was a brisk lad for so douce a lady.
Then Mr. Doucewas heard descending the stairs, and silence followed.
As they go by ta-ra-ing, the douce citizens of Merchester and their wives and daughters admire from the windows discreetly; but will attend their Divine Service later.
Do you suppose that the most frantic Scotch Calvinist, when he was his douce daily self and not temporarily intoxicated by his creed, ever treated his neighbours in practice as men predestined to damnation?
A headache prevented my waiting upon Madame de Stal that day, and obliged me to retreat soon after nine o'clock in the evening, and my douce compagne would not let me retreat alone.
Indeed, Mr. Douce believes that many of the strange carvings on the misereres in our cathedrals have references to these practices.
Mr. Douce has furnished us with some curious remarks upon them in the eleventh volume of the Archaeologia, and Mr. Ellis in his new edition of Brand's Popular Antiquities.
It was printed in octavo, black letter, and the only copy that seems to be known is in the Doucecollection at the Bodleian.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "douce" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
