2317 examples of percy in sentences

Garrick particularly admired her as a woman of genius, and performed one of her plays ("Percy") twenty successive nights at Drury Lane, writing himself both the prologue and the epilogue.

Her tragedy of "Percy" was translated into French and German before she was thirty; and she realized from the sale of it £600.

THE MYSTERIOUS DEATH IN PERCY STREET

On this particular afternoon she went to the A.B.C. shop with a fixed purpose, that of making him give her his views of Mrs. Owen's mysterious death in Percy Street.

There is a mysterythat of the death in Percy Street, and you, like the police, are unable to fathom it.

The whole mise en scène was truly artistic, worthy of its milieuthe Rubens Studios in Percy Street, Tottenham Court Road.

"'The mysterious death in Percy Street.'

"But the immediate result of Detective-Inspector Jones's labours was that Mr. Arthur Greenhill, lithographer, was brought before the magistrate at Bow Street on the charge of being concerned in the death of Mrs. Owen, caretaker of the Rubens Studios, Percy Street.

He listened to it all with an air of the most painful nervousness, his cheeks were positively green, his lips seemed dry and parched, for he repeatedly passed his tongue over them, and when Constable E 18 deposed that at 2 a.m. on the morning of February 2nd he had seen the accused and spoken to him at the corner of Percy Street and Tottenham Court Road, young Greenhill all but fainted.

"In the meanwhile the papers had talked of and almost exhausted the subject of the mystery in Percy Street.

Mr. Greenhill called Mrs. Hall, confectioner, of Percy Street, opposite the Rubens Studios.

"Mr. Hall, confectioner, of the same address, corroborated this statement, and Mr. Greenhill, with absolute triumph, produced a third witness, Mrs. Martin, of Percy Street, who from her window on the second floor had, at 7.30 a.m., seen the caretaker shaking mats outside her front door.

Think what his position would have been if the worthy confectioners of Percy Street had not seen Mrs. Owen 'wrapped up in a shawl, on her knees, doing the front steps.'

"I know that the public, after the magistrate had discharged Arthur Greenhill, were quite satisfied to think that the mystery in Percy Street was a case of accidentor suicide.

Child's English and Scottish Popular Ballads; Gummere's Old English Ballads (one volume); Hazlitt's Early Popular Poetry of England; Gayley and Flaherty's Poetry of the People; Percy's Reliques of Ancient English Poetry, in Everyman's Library.

Percy's Reliques, in Everyman's Library, Chandos Classics, Bohn's Library, etc.

In what respect did Percy's Reliques influence the romantic movement?

Percy's Reliques | 1766.

PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY (1792-1822) Make me thy lyre, even as the forest is: What if my leaves are falling like its own!

Hogg's Life of Percy Bysshe Shelley(contemporary).

The "lamentable ballad of the Lady's Fall" has been reprinted by Ritson and Percy.

BY PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY.

J. B. TRANSLATION OF THE FIRST TWO STANZAS OF THE SONG "RIO VERDE, RIO VERDE," PRINTED IN BISHOP PERCY'S RELIQUES OF ANCIENT ENGLISH POETRY.

PERCY DEARMER)

He attended his patron at his breakfast; breakfasting, said Percy, "on the crust of a roll, which Johnson threw to him after tearing out the crumb."

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