1 Miss Van Osburgh's vague feeling of pique was struggling for appropriate expression.
2 One window of excellent clothes for men, interspersed with collars of floral pique which showed mauve daisies on a saffron ground.
3 Had Hawkeye been aware of the low estimation in which the skillful Uncas held his representations, he would probably have prolonged the entertainment a little in pique.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore CooperContext Highlight In CHAPTER 26 4 Sallie Gardiner was absorbed in keeping her white pique dress clean and chattering with the ubiquitous Fred, who kept Beth in constant terror by his pranks.
5 Ashamed of his momentary pique, Laurie squeezed the kind little hand, and said frankly, "I'm the one to be forgiven."
6 'Tis because you are an indifferent person," said Lucy, with some pique, and laying a particular stress on those words, "that your judgment might justly have such weight with me.
7 To believe that the letter was not the result of some momentary pique, to infer that she really gave him up to Thomasin, would have required previous knowledge of her transfiguration by that man's influence.
Return of the Native By Thomas HardyContext Highlight In BOOK 2: 7 A Coalition between Beauty and Oddness 8 This seemed to pique general curiosity, and quite a number of people began to run.
9 These verses were not excellent--very far from it; but as it is well known, the Puritans did not pique themselves upon their poetry.
The Three Musketeers By Alexandre DumasContext Highlight In 53 CAPTIVITY: THE SECOND DAY 10 Leaving superiority out of the question, then, you must still agree to receive my orders now and then, without being piqued or hurt by the tone of command.
11 Her relatives encouraged me; competitors piqued me; she allured me: a marriage was achieved almost before I knew where I was.
12 Pride," observed Mary, who piqued herself upon the solidity of her reflections, "is a very common failing, I believe.
13 "Rail on, rail on at your ease, gentlemen," said Morcerf, somewhat piqued.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre DumasContext Highlight In Chapter 40. The Breakfast. 14 Danglars was a coward, but did not wish to appear so; he was piqued at the tone which Morcerf had just assumed.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre DumasContext Highlight In Chapter 78. We hear From Yanina. 15 This piqued Javert's curiosity in a decided manner.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 5: CHAPTER X—WHICH EXPLAINS HOW JAVERT GOT ON THE SCENT