Percy

Examples

• Percy Phelps sank back in his chair. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
• His name is Armitage--Percy Armitage--the second son of Mr. Armitage, of Crane Water, near Reading. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
• Miss Bart caught the startled glance of Mr. Percy Gryce, whose own lips were never defiled by tobacco. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
• Percy Phelps was walking very slowly, leaning upon the arm of his future brother-in-law. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
• She would have to go to church with Percy Gryce every Sunday. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
• When Percy MacKaye pleads for pageants in which the people themselves participate, he offers an opportunity for expressing some of the lusts of the city in the form of an art. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• She returned wearily to the thought of Percy Gryce, as a wayfarer picks up a heavy load and toils on after a brief rest. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
• I must have news of Salisbury from the south; and of Beauchamp, in Warwickshire; and of Multon and Percy in the north. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
• Evie Van Osburgh and Percy Gryce? Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
• Mrs. Gryce told me herself that it was her gambling that frightened Percy Gryce--it seems he was really taken with her at first. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
• Ah, well, they wouldn't remember that; besides, it was the idea of the gambling debt that frightened Percy. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
• I fancy that Lord Holdhurst for one, and Mr. Percy Phelps for another, would very much rather that the affair never got as far as a police-court. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
• Percy Phelps and his nurse looked at Holmes during this demonstration with surprise and a good deal of disappointment written upon their faces. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
• As they drew nearer she was whimsically struck by a kind of family likeness between Miss Van Osburgh and Percy Gryce. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
• In that of Mr. Percy Phelps, answered Holmes. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.

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