Salmon salad, Gervais cheese, cold tongue, nice cake and paté douceurs such as only the French can make, gave us a charming lunch, finished with wine. ❋ Susan Cheever (2010)
Terms & Expressions: les douceurs du bercail = home sweet home bercail pour agneaux = sheepfold, sheep pen rentrer au bercail = to come back to the fold (politician), to return to the fold ❋ Unknown (2007)
When officers commanding regiments in India contracted for clothing the men, they found these douceurs under their dinner-napkins. ❋ Unknown (2006)
Without such douceurs, it is popularly said and believed, no stone walls could enable a Turk to hold Al-Hijaz against the hill-men. ❋ Unknown (2003)
Porte: he may do what he pleases as long as he pays his rent with punctuality and provides presents and douceurs for the ❋ Unknown (2003)
When Adams sent three ministers to Paris to negotiate, including Gerry, the Directory insulted them and tried to extort douceurs —bribes—from them. ❋ Richard Brookhiser (2002)
I have tried to make it clear that this price would be very high to myself as a Western intellectual, but much lower for a people who had never known the douceurs so important to myself and who enjoyed the morale and material security of a restructured society. ❋ Olson, Robert L. (1974)
But, Monsieur Y was careful to insist, the loan and the private gift of douceurs must be considered separate matters and must be kept so. ❋ Richard Harwell (1968)
As most ecclesiastical promotions passed through his pure and disinterested hands, Madame Napoleon, Talleyrand, and Portalis, who also wanted some douceurs for their extraordinary expenses, united together last spring to remove him from France. ❋ Various (N/A)
In some secret conferences Bourrienne is, however, said to have hinted that some douceurs were expected for alleviating the rigour of his instructions. ❋ Various (N/A)
Continental States of the King of England (a name given here to Hanover in courtesy to Bonaparte) was laid under contribution, and expected to make certain douceurs to Madame Bonaparte; and it is said that she has received from Mortier three hundred thousand livres, and from Bernadotte two hundred and fifty thousand livres, besides other large sums from our military commissaries, treasurers, and other agents in the Electorate. ❋ Various (N/A)
_Times_ said, "We state it as a fact, within our own knowledge, that two ladies of fashion, who keep open houses for gaming at the West End of the Town, have lately paid large douceurs to ward off the hand of justice." ❋ Various (N/A)
Le Tellier told her cousin, Bussy-Rabutin, that the King liked her letters, -- "very different," he said, "from the _douceurs fades_" -- the insipid sweet things -- "of the other feminine scribes." ❋ Various (N/A)
Berlin, nor did any of our artizan friends, although there were very pressing orders in the shape of those unvarying German court douceurs, diamond-circled snuff boxes, and insignia of the Red and Black Eagle. ❋ William Duthie (N/A)
Even the attendants of the former, and the clerks of the latter, demanded, or rather extorted, douceurs from the exhausted and almost ruined German petitioners; who in the end were rewarded for all their meanness and for all their expenses with promises at best; as the new plan of supplementary indemnities was, on the very day proposed for its final arrangement, postponed by the desire of the ❋ Various (N/A)
