What is "percy"

Usage examples of "percy".

That same mad fellow of thenorth, Percy, and he of Wales, that gave Amamon thebastinado and made Lucifer cuckold and swore thedevil his true liegeman upon the cross of a Welshhook--what a plague call you him?

And, indeed, there is need for haste, seeing that Percy and Clifford have already crossed the Border with an English army and are marching north through Annandale towards Ayr.

As a matter of fact, jolly old Benham told me himself that he has the greatest esteem and respect for Percy, and wouldn't have kicked him for the world.

Wendy Billington Innes had dried her tears and stiffened her backbone at the sight of Lilyglit walking safely back unhurt, and a short time later she listened half in relief and half in horror to a trainer-to-owner telephone call from Percy Driffield.

Percy Bridgman, in designing a way to obtain higher pressures, opened up another new field and was able to move into it and to lead us all along.

She had been bored all the afternoon by Percy Gryce–the mere thought seemed to waken an echo of his droning voice–but she could not ignore him on the morrow, she must follow up her success, must submit to more boredom, must be ready with fresh compliances and adaptabilities, and all on the bare chance that he might ultimately decide to do her the honour of boring her for life.

In a moment Chauvelin was on his feet and with eyes dilated, lips parted in awed bewilderment, he was gazing towards the open window, where astride upon the sill, one leg inside the room, the other out, and with the moon shining full on his suit of delicate-coloured cloth, his wide caped coat and elegant chapeau-bras, sat the imperturbably Sir Percy.

This is a town in Northumberland, and here, as in Chevy Chase, the Douglas and the Percy matched their strength.

So Delacroix got his box, and Percy was as good as his word - two days later the bottom was lined with soft pads of cotton batting from the dispensary.

He was born Jeremy Percival Twistington-Smith, but when he came down from Oxford and joined the Labour Party he changed his name by deed poll to simple (forward with the workers) Percy Smith.

There was no love lost between Percy Wetmore and Paul Edgecombe, and this was still summer, remember - long before the real festivities started.

It's as if, by writing about those old times, I have unlocked some unspeakable door that connects the past to the present - Percy Wetmore to Brad Dolan, Janice Edgecombe to Elaine Connelly, Cold Mountain Penitentiary to the Georgia Pines old folks' home.

As I went on down toward the kitchen, it occurred to me that the team of Elaine Connelly and Paul Edgecombe would probably be a match for a dozen Brad Dolans, with half a dozen Percy Wetmores thrown in for good measure.

Ron's brother Percy was sitting at the very end of the front bench.

He left a bit of a front tooth, and Percy has lost all that tooth.