| 1. | Besides, the eccentricity of the proceeding was piquant I felt interested to see how he would go on. - from Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte |
| 2. | Besides, here is a piquant FRICANDEAU and a fillet of beef.. - from The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas, Pere |
| 3. | Fresh scandals have eclipsed it, and their more piquant details have drawn the gossips away from this four-year-old drama. - from The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle |
| 4. | On the contrary, it seemed rather a piquant thing to us to chevy him about the playground and hit him over the shins with a wicket. - from Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle |
| 5. | Had that piquant gipsy face been at the bottom of the crime, or was it the baser mainspring of money Probably a judicious mixture of both. - from The Mysterious Affair at Styles by Agatha Christie |
| 6. | --Let him she said with a pert toss of her head and a piquant tilt of her nose. - from Ulysses by James Joyce |
| 7. | Of her daughters, the eldest, Amy, was rather little naive, and child-like in face and manner, and piquant in form her white muslin dress and blue sash became her well. - from Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte |
| 8. | But this is not always so, some extreme fashions giving opportunities of very piquant and interesting portrait designs. - from The Practice and Science Of Drawing by Harold Speed |