1 Besides, the eccentricity of the proceeding was piquant: I felt interested to see how he would go on.
2 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.
3 Besides, there is that peculiar voice of hers, so animating and piquant, as well as soft: it cheers my withered heart; it puts life into it.
4 Often a drop of irony into an indifferent situation renders the whole piquant.
Return of the Native By Thomas HardyContext Highlight In BOOK 1: 10 A Desperate Attempt at Persuasion 5 Fresh scandals have eclipsed it, and their more piquant details have drawn the gossips away from this four-year-old drama.
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan DoyleContext Highlight In X. THE ADVENTURE OF THE NOBLE BACHELOR 6 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.
The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan DoyleContext Highlight In XI. The Adventure of The Naval Treaty 7 She had a round, sly, piquant face and pretty black eyes.
8 There was something so piquant and original in these elucidations of humanity, that Mr. Shelby could not help laughing in company.