douceur

How to use douceur in a sentence

• Quand l'hiver fut pass, & que la douceur du temps allecha le poisson rechercher les eaux douces, on dpecha 170 des gens le 14.

  The Jesuit Relations and Allied Documents, Vol. II: Acadia, 1612-1614 | Various

• The expenses of The Lantern—including a generous douceur to myself—were all defrayed by the Empress.

  The Collected Works of Ambrose Bierce | Ambrose Bierce

• He has however a douceur for Ireland in his pocket; benefits in trade, by opening the woollen manufacture to that nation.

  The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. I. (of 12) | Edmund Burke

• A greater douceur was expected from the drivers of such a magnificent turnout.

  Kathay: A Cruise in the China Seas | W. Hastings Macaulay

• The Jew maintained his impudence to the last, coming round to my window, and then asking a few rubles as a douceur.

  Incidents of Travel in Greece, Turkey, Russia, and Poland, 7th ed. Vol. 2 of 2 | John Lloyd Stephens