Use bercy in a sentence
Sentences ending with bercy
- To acknowledge it would be ruin, for all the world knows that Captain Philip d'Avranche of the King's navy is now the adopted son of the Duc de Bercy. [11]
- Presently the doors were thrown open, two halberdiers stepped inside, and an officer of the Court announced Admiral his Serene Highness Prince Philip d'Avranche, Duc de Bercy. [11]
- His purpose now was to wrest from Philip the duchy of Bercy. [11]
- Now, returned from vagabondage, he was the valiant and honoured heir of the House of Vaufontaine, and heir-presumptive of the House of Bercy. [11]
- He even figured to himself with what surprise Guida would greet his announcement that she was henceforth Princesse Guida d'Avranche, and in due time would be her serene highness the Duchesse de Bercy. [11]
- They interwove themselves through all his secret business with the Royalists of Bercy. [11]
- He hated Philip the man, but he hated still more Philip the usurper who had brought shame to the escutcheon of Bercy. [11]
- The day after the duel, Detricand had arrived in Paris to proceed thence to Bercy. [11]
- You--only you are the Duc de Bercy. [11]
- His father was the adopted son of the Duc de Bercy. [11]
More example sentences with the word bercy in them
- Above this Damour wrote for himself an order upon the chamberlain of Bercy to enter upon Philip's private apartments in the castle; and thither he was fleeing as Philip lay dying in the dark room of the house in the Rue de Vaugirard. [11]
- As the words were spoken a sigh broke from her, and there came to Philip's mind that distant day in the council chamber at Bercy when for one moment he was upon his trial; but he did not turn and look at her now. [11]
- He knew too well the old feud between their houses, the ambition that had possessed many a Vaufontaine to inherit the dukedom of Bercy, and the Duke's futile revolt against that possibility. [11]
- Now she should understand that something which had made the old Duc de Bercy with his last breath say, Don't be afraid! [11]
- Then came the time when in the States of Bercy he denied that he had a wife. [11]
- From interest in these matters alone Detricand would not have remained at Bercy, but he thought to use the time for secretly meeting officers of the duchy likely to favour the cause of the Royalists. [11]
- He drove home the truth with bare unvarnished power--the wrong to Guida, the wrong to the Countess, the wrong to the Dukedom of Bercy, to that honour which should belong to those in high estate. [11]
- The physician of the old Duke of Bercy was examined, and the evidence was with Philip. [11]
- Presently he learned that three days hence a meeting of the States of Bercy was to be held for setting the seal upon the Duke's formal adoption of Philip, and to execute a deed of succession. [11]
- For I know that before you wrote me this letter, and afterwards when you had been made prince, and heir to the duchy, the Comtesse Chantavoine was openly named by the Duc de Bercy for your wife. [11]
- After Damour had testified to the question the Duke asked Philip when signing the deeds at Bercy, Detricand begged leave to introduce another witness, and brought in the Chevalier. [11]
- Then sudden remembrance stunned him: Philip d'Avranche, Duc de Bercy, had another wife. [11]
- She had heard strange tales of how Philip had become Prince Philip d'Avranche, and husband of the Comtesse Chantavoine, and afterwards Duc de Bercy. [11]
- He had been shut out from the world, cut off from all connection with England and his past, for M. Dalbarade made it a condition of release that he should send no message or correspond with any one outside Castle Bercy. [11]
- Once again at Saumur, a week later, Detricand wrote a long letter to Carterette Mattingley, in Jersey, in which he set forth these strange events at Bercy, and asked certain questions concerning Guida. [11]
- At last the President, rising in his place, read the pronouncement of the Court: that Detricand, Prince of Vaufontaine, be declared true inheritor of the duchy of Bercy, the nations represented here confirming him in his title. [11]
- To meet that peril the Duc de Bercy will do well to consult his new kinsman--Philip d'Avranche. [11]
- If Detricand, Prince of Vaufontaine, be not secured in his right of succession to the dukedom of Bercy, France will not cease to protest till protest hath done its work. [11]
- For the heritage of the Houses of Vaufontaine and Bercy he cared little--he had deeper ambitions; but this adventuring sailor roused in him again the private grudge he had once begged him to remember. [11]
- But the duchy of Bercy was in hard case. [11]
- Surely the house of Bercy has cause for joy, with an imbecile for the first in succession and a traitor for the second! [11]
- But for himself, now heir to the principality of Vaufontaine, and therefrom, by reversion, to that of Bercy, it had no importance. [11]
- England does not need you"--his voice and manner softened, he leaned towards Philip, the eyes almost closing as he peered into his face--"but you are needed by the House of Bercy. [11]
- I have set my life to the one task, to keep him to myself, and yet to win for him the heritage of the dukedom of Bercy. [11]
- All that is mine at the Castle of Bercy he will secure to you. [11]
- Then Bercy--come what might, there was work for him to do at Bercy. [11]
- Looking round, they laughed meaningly, and then told her that the commander coming presently to lie with his fleet in Grouville Bay was none other than the sometime Jersey midshipman, now Admiral Prince Philip d'Avranche, Duc de Bercy. [11]
- All at once it flashed on the younger man that this must be the Prince d'Avranche, Duc de Bercy, of that family of d'Avranche from which his own came in long descent--even from the days of Rollo, Duke of Normandy. [11]
- His friend the innkeeper urged him not to attend the meeting of the States of Bercy, lest he should be recognised by spies of government. [11]
- Philip argued that if it was his duty, as a captain in the English navy, to fight against the revolutionaries from without, he would be beyond criticism if, as the Duc de Bercy, he also fought against them from within. [11]
- It was now his one ambition to arrange a new succession excluding the Vaufontaines, a detested branch of the Bercy family. [11]
- He had tossed his fame as an admiral into the gutter, but Bercy still was left. [11]
- He had bethought him that now his place was in Bercy, where he might gather up what fragments of good fortune remained, what of Philip's valuables might be secured. [11]
- Also she had heard how Philip, just before he became the Duc de Bercy, had fought his ship against a French vessel off Ushant, and, though she had heavier armament than his own, had destroyed her. [11]
- Of gallant bearing, he was attired in a fashion unlike the citizens of Bercy, or the Republican military often to be seen in the streets of the town. [11]
- Turning from Philip, he said to Detricand with malicious triumph: "It will disconcert your pious mind to know I have yet one kinsman who counts it no shame to inherit Bercy. [11]
- He laid a hand on Philip's broad shoulder, and said admiringly: "You will of course have your hour with him, cousin: but not--not till you are a d'Avranche of Bercy. [11]
- His whole story had become known in the duchy, and though it begot no feeling against him in war-time, now that Bercy was in a neutral zone of peace there was much talk of the wrongs of Guida and the Countess Chantavoine. [11]
- Philip had retired from the English navy, and gone back to his duchy of Bercy. [11]
- He was stolen from me by Philip d'Avranche, Duc de Bercy. [11]
- You are concerned for the Comtesse Chantavoine; I am concerned for the Duchy of Bercy and for this poor lady--this poor lady in Jersey," he added. [11]
- I fasten my eyes on France alone: I fight for the throne of Louis, not for the duchy of Bercy. [11]
- She drew every eye by virtue of something which was more than the name of Duchesse de Bercy. [11]
- Grandjon-Larisse, his old enemy in battle, now his personal friend and colleague in this business, had influenced Napoleon, and the Directory through him, to respect the neutrality of the duchy of Bercy, for which the four nations of this Congress declared. [11]
- From France the duchy of Bercy came. [11]
- She read aloud Detricand's description of his visit to the Castle of Bercy, and of the meeting with Philip. [11]
- If the Duc de Bercy declares for us, others will come out of exile, and from submission to the rebel government, to our aid. [11]
- Philip recalled that day at Bercy when the Duke stooped and signed his name upon the deed of adoption and succession three times-three fateful times. [11]
- He had now come from the splendid victory at Saumur to urge his kinsman, the Duc de Bercy, to join the Royalists. [11]
- Then, shortly afterwards, came the death of the imbecile Leopold John; and Philip found himself the Duc de Bercy, and within a year, by reason of a splendid victory for the Imperturbable, an admiral. [11]
- By no trickery, but by a persistent good-nature, alertness of speech, avoidance of dangerous topics, and aptness in anecdote, he had hourly made his position stronger, himself more honoured at the Castle Bercy. [11]
- Detricand Duke of Bercy will deal honourably by you. [11]
- Sending officers to Bercy to frustrate any possible designs of Damour, he, with the Chevalier, took Philip's body back to Jersey, delivering it to those who would do it honour. [11]
- The Duc de Bercy to be harangued to his duty, scathed, measured, disapproved, and counselled, by a stripling Vaufontaine--it was monstrous. [11]
- The duchy of Bercy may sink or swim for all of me, if so be it does not stand with us in our holy war. [11]
- Then they had been friends, for his uncle of Vaufontaine had had a small estate in Bercy itself, in ironical proximity to the castle. [11]
- The Comtesse had arrived in the island almost simultaneously with Philip, although he had urged her to remain at the ducal palace of Bercy. [11]
- After the Assembly and the chief officers of the duchy should have ratified these documents and the Duke signed them, they were to be enclosed in a box with three locks and deposited with the Sovereign Court at Bercy. [11]
- That was the admiral's flag--that was the flag of Admiral Prince Philip d'Avranche, Duc de Bercy. [11]
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