What is "alyce"

Usage examples of "alyce".

At least with the children, both Alyce and Marie soon made themselves favorite playmates, for they were hardly more than children themselves.

The queen herself was probably closest to Alyce in age, but her young son and her own duties occupied most of her available time and energy.

But for Alyce, this time of preparation for the birth of the Christmas King also marked the necessary shift in her frame of mind.

Se told Alyce, as he and Jovett waited for the grooms to finish saddling their horses.

Jessamy did her best to see that her young charges were included in appropriate activities, along with her own children, but Alyce found that the turning of the new year only marked the uncertainty of what lay ahead.

Drawing aside, Jessamy nodded to her daughter, who urged her pony through the opening, then gestured for Alyce and Marie to follow.

Meanwhile, Jessamy and the maid followed behind Alyce, Marie, and Jesiana, and the servant with the pack horse gave its lead over to a nun who led it through the doorway.

Fingering the lining of a dark blue mantle draped over a corner of one of the screens, Alyce decided that the fur was rabbit, or possibly squirrel.

Iris Rose asked, lifting tentative hands toward the cloak Alyce had started to unfasten at the throat.

Iris Rose a smile, Alyce stepped behind one of the screens nearer the fire and continued to undress.

But by Truth-Reading Iris Rose, Alyce could see that she believed what she had just said.

She gave Alyce a meaningful look as folds of pale blue wool fell to ankle-length around her, including Marie in her comments as the younger girl stepped into view once more.

Rose glanced sidelong at the door as she handed one of the multi-colored cinctures to Alyce, then to Marie.

Iris Judiana, I have the honor to present my heart-daughters, the demoiselles Alyce and Marie, children of my dear friend Stevana de Corwyn, the late heiress of Corwyn.

As Jessamy removed the dried floral wreaths from both bowed heads, the girls with the veils performed their offices, bidding Alyce and Marie to hold the front edges of the veils in place while rainbow-plaited fillets were bound across their foreheads, entirely suitable for the lives they were to lead for the next few years.