Examples of using "Douceurs" in a sentence and their english translations:
I allow myself no sweets.
'Twas now the time, when on tired mortals crept / first slumber, sweetest that celestials pour.
Then with lowly downcast eye / she dropped her voice, and softly made reply. / "Ah! happy maid of Priam, doomed instead / at Troy upon a foeman's tomb to die! / Not drawn by lot for servitude, nor led / a captive thrall, like me, to grace a conqueror's bed."