131 examples of doux in sentences

And old Francisco, without the expence of an hour's Courtship, a Billet-Doux, or scarce a sight of her, could gain her in a day; and yet 'tis wonder, your Fortune and your Quality, should be refus'd by Don Baltazer her Father.

Billets-doux from the great Louis to the Montespan, perhaps?" "No, unfortunately they were of a much more recent date.

Thou biddest me look on thee no more, nor even dare to write The letter or the billet-doux, that caused thee once delight.

To the poor youth's praise be it said, there were no billets-doux, except from the Lady Adeliza herself.

They filled her house with bouquets and billets doux; they stood before the windows, they sat on the steps, they ran beside her litter when she was carried abroad, they assembled at night to serenade her, fighting desperately among themselves.

He might even kiss her hand, and kneel to her, and perform any other gallant ceremony he fanciedshe would make allowances, and not become angry if he even proceeded so far as to write her billet-doux, and ask her hand in a matrimonial point of view.

"I am much better pleased with the diversions on the water, where all the town assembles every night, and never without music; but we have none so rough as trumpets, kettle-drums, and French horns: they are all violins, lutes, mandolins, and flutes doux.

Correspondence N. correspondence, letter, epistle, note, billet, post card, missive, circular, favor, billet-doux; chit, chitty^, letter card, picture post card; postal

Then, bestirring herself with an effort, her white fingers ran over the keys again, and in her sweet, musical voice she sang "L'Heure d'Aimer," that pretty valse chantée so popular in Paris: Voici l'heure d'aimer, l'heure des tendresses; Dis-moi les mots très doux qui vont me griser, Ah! prends-moi dans tes bras, fais-moi des caresses; Je veux mourir pour revivre sous ton baiser.

Watching his opportunity of dropping a letter into the hand of the Princess, as she passed through the corridor connecting the Pitti and the Uffizijust completed by Duke Cosimo's ordersCaptain Filippo had the curiosity to read the billet-doux himself.

"Antoine" came into the inner room and said he was "Doux comme un petit agneau," but the Marquise said that he was "Un loup dans une peau de mouton," and must go away.

Lorsqui'il était petit, il n'a jamais été ce qu'on appelle mièvre et éveille; on le voyait toujours doux, paisible, et taciturne, ne disant jamais mot, et ne jouant jamais à tons ces petits jeux que l'on nomme enfantins.

" In the little memoir of Lamb prefixed by M. Amédée Pichot to a French edition of the Tales from Shakespeare in 1842 the following translation of this sonnet is given: MON NOM DE FAMILLE Dis-moi, d'où nous viens-tu, nom pacifique et doux, Nom transmis sans reproche?...

Peut-être nous viens-tu d'un timide pasteur, Doux comme ses agneaux, raillé pour sa douceur.

One such strip, four feet long, would suffice for a mere billet-doux; but a real letter usually required several such strips pasted together.

A Frenchman may be an unkind husband, a severe parent, or an arrogant master, yet never contract his features, or asperate his voice, and for this reason is, in the national sense, "un homme bien doux."

"The hows and whens of life" corrugate his features, and disharmonize his periods; contradiction sours, and passion ruffles himand, in short, an Englishman displeased, from whatever cause, is neither "un homme bien doux," nor "un homme bien aimable;" but such as nature has made him, subject to infirmities and sorrows, and unable to disguise the one, or appear indifferent to the other.

The Fellow had a very good Person, and there are very many Women that think no further than the Outside of a Gentleman: besides which, he was almost as learned a Man as the Colonel himself: I say, thus qualified, the Fellow could scrawl Billets-doux so well, and furnish a Conversation on the common Topicks, that he had, as they call it, a great deal of good Business on his Hands.

I have received the following Letter, or rather Billet-doux, from a pert young Baggage, who congratulates with me upon the same Occasion.

Having here inserted this Letter, which I look upon as the only Antediluvian Billet-doux now extant, I shall in my next Paper give the Answer to it, and the Sequel of this Story.

BOURGEOIS.Il y a un coq qui chante, Des pommes, des poires, des raves, des choux, Des figues nouvelles, des raisins doux.

CHORUS.Des pommes, des poires, des raves, des choux, Des figues nouvelles, des raisins doux.

"I readily admit the receipt of a written message from you, which, though scarcely intelligible to my poor comprehension, did not seem as agreeably worded as a billet-doux.

Le Marquis est un homme doux, paisible, aisé à conduire; et voilà ce qu'il faut

Vous me disiez tantôt que mon état étoit doux et tranquille; n'aimeriez-vous pas mieux que

131 examples of  doux  in sentences