Percy

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Percy englannista suomeksi

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(RQ:Shakespeare Henry 4-1 Q1). My name is Harry Percy. / Henry V of England|''Pr''(quote-gloss). VVhy then I ſee / A very valiant rebel of that name; / I am the Prince of VVales, and thinke not Percy / To ſhare vvith me in glory any more: / Tvvo ſtars keepe not their motion in one ſphere, / Nor can one England brooke a double raigne / Of Harry Percy and the Prince of VVales.
(senseid)(given name) of ''Percival''|usage=Middle Ages and later.
(quote-book)|location=London|publisher=& Faber|Faber and Faber|pages=198–199|pageurl=https://archive.org/details/secretscripturen0000barr/page/199/mode/1up|isbn=978-0-571-23961-0|passage=Speaking of Sligo, I have written again to ask if I may visit there sometime soon, and talk to the administrator, who it turns out is an old acquaintance, a man called Percival Quinn, I think the only Percy I have heard of in the present era, let alone met. (..) There may be other files there that even Percy feels can't be communicated, but I don't know.
(senseid) A place name:
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A male person regarded as unmanly or weak; a sissy; specifically , a male objector.

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(RQ:Shaw War). It tacitly invites the rank and file to have a lark with him in barracks, in the hope that if he is bullied and told that he will be shot next morning, and mobbed and pilloried and photographed in The Daily Sketch as Percy (all Percies are now—shade of Percy (Hotspur)|Hotspur!—supposed to be cowards) he will, perhaps, stop giving trouble.
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An educated soldier; specifically, an officer.
(quote-book) John Evan Weston-Davies|chapter=21|title=The White Dacoit|location=New York, N.Y.|publisher=Charles Scribner's Sons|Charles Scribner’s Sons|page=196|pageurl=https://archive.org/details/whitedacoit0000math/page/196/mode/1up|isbn=978-0-684-13942-5|passage=(quote-gloss)I must admit I'm not terribly good at figures." / "Never met an officer as was," said Sam. "Most of the young Percies in our mob had to take their boots off to count up to twenty. But don't worry about that. Aunty'll give you the figures. She's got 'em all in her head, like a bleedin' adding machine. It's her handwriting and spelling that gets everybody down. It's soddin' awful she can't read it herself five minutes after."
(senseid) ''Chiefly in'' Percy at the porcelain: the penis.

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