Adjective : a piquant aspic. ,a piquant glance. ,a piquant wit. From Dictionary.com.
Cool was first defined in print in 1947, in a book titled piquantly. From Wordnik.com. Reference
My Helen's face was expressive, piquantly irregular. From Wordnik.com. [The Bacillus of Beauty A Romance of To-day] Reference
The last voice, piquantly foreign, was the voice of Fritzi Baroff. From Wordnik.com. [The Palace of Darkened Windows] Reference
She lifted a face that was blue-eyed, pert-nosed, full-lipped, piquantly freckled. From Wordnik.com. [Time Patrolman]
Or to put the point more piquantly, one person's minuteman is another person's mujahideen. From Wordnik.com. [Balkinization] Reference
Aye, but have you ever considered how much harder it is to praise than to censure piquantly?. From Wordnik.com. [Life and Remains of John Clare "The Northamptonshire Peasant Poet"] Reference
Fairy, her piquantly bright features clouded with an unwonted frown, crumpled a letter in her hand. From Wordnik.com. [Prudence Says So] Reference
As Tony Koslow piquantly reminds us, "neither distance nor depth shields the deep sea from pollution.". From Wordnik.com. [Where Wonders Await Us] Reference
When Halibut or Flounder are steamed or baked in fillets, they call for a piquantly flavored sauce: Caper. From Wordnik.com. [How to Prepare and Serve a Meal; and Interior Decoration] Reference
Her wide eyes were china blue, her nose piquantly retroussé and she was as vacuously pretty as a wax doll. From Wordnik.com. [The Fifth Ace] Reference
The door opened on an interior pleasantly familiar, yet piquantly removed from the dulness of every-day acquaintance. From Wordnik.com. [Flint His Faults, His Friendships and His Fortunes] Reference
It was the cleanly-cut, piquantly pursed-up mouth of. From Wordnik.com. [A Pair of Blue Eyes] Reference
"Ah, you should see me Sundays!" she said piquantly. From Wordnik.com. [Jude the Obscure] Reference
And yet, of whose face did hers piquantly remind him?. From Wordnik.com. [The Heather-Moon] Reference
She was finding the conversation piquantly interesting. From Wordnik.com. [Jane Journeys On] Reference
"I'm an old maid, I know," said Cousin Hetty piquantly. From Wordnik.com. [The Brimming Cup] Reference
I understood the signal, so piquantly given; and obeyed it. From Wordnik.com. [The Wild Huntress Love in the Wilderness] Reference
Those brown eyes assorted piquantly with his very fair hair. From Wordnik.com. [Cinderella in the South Twenty-Five South African Tales] Reference
Also he saw that she was piquantly pretty; a bravura type, slightly suggesting the. From Wordnik.com. [The Price] Reference
She settled her dainty hat more piquantly on her rich dark hair, and smiled agreeably. From Wordnik.com. [Innocent : her fancy and his fact] Reference
Then after two further verses the violin and cello strings are rippling piquantly again. From Wordnik.com. [The Student Operated Press] Reference
"Robin Hood" provides some wenches for the drunken merry men, piquantly portrayed by Kevin. From Wordnik.com. [post-gazette.com - News] Reference
With such peppery passages in great abundance the Diary is thickly and piquantly besprinkled. From Wordnik.com. [John Quincy Adams American Statesmen Series] Reference
She raised her dreamy eyes as I passed; I had never seen her piquantly expressive face so grave. From Wordnik.com. [The Maids of Paradise] Reference
It had an infantile simplicity about it which contrasted most piquantly with her prophetic manner. From Wordnik.com. [Hilda Wade, a Woman with Tenacity of Purpose] Reference
And her lips were anything but haughty; they were a deep red and piquantly upturned at the corners. From Wordnik.com. [The Devolutionist and the Emancipatrix] Reference
But oddly enough, this girlish jealousy of hers, this pretty spite -- he found it piquantly charming. From Wordnik.com. [An Alabaster Box] Reference
When Marie Nevins, piquantly pretty, witty, and accomplished, made a stolen match with the ungreat son of one of. From Wordnik.com. [The Arena Volume 4, No. 24, November, 1891] Reference
Laura McIntyre had a pretty beseeching way with her, which went rather piquantly with her queenly style of beauty. From Wordnik.com. [The Doings of Raffles Haw] Reference
That kind of time frame also allows for their storytelling to flourish, which it does both poignantly and piquantly. From Wordnik.com. [Playback:stl Syndication] Reference
I don't know when I ever read anything about myself that struck me so piquantly as that story about the old gentleman. From Wordnik.com. [Authors and Friends] Reference
Really, she was most prepossessing, lively in her movements, her eyes burning, her mouth plastic and piquantly inquiring. From Wordnik.com. [Brazilian Tales] Reference
The only trouble is that Fred -- "and she turned to face him piquantly --" always takes in the whole world when he gets mad. From Wordnik.com. [The White Desert] Reference
Magnifique a piquantly candied quality ... think spicy rose jam, Turkish Delight and all things sweet in an exotic sort of way. From Wordnik.com. [Perfume-Smellin' Things Perfume Blog] Reference
If as a boy I wanted to read something of a piquantly exciting character I sought in my father's encyclopædia for articles like. From Wordnik.com. [Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 5 Erotic Symbolism; The Mechanism of Detumescence; The Psychic State in Pregnancy] Reference
But you are sure to have far more interesting and original things to tell about; it will read so piquantly, I'm sure, at Honolulu. '. From Wordnik.com. [The Whirlpool] Reference
I home care texas trimer on a luridness banger piquantly atheromatic them stunningly the physalia indus polish a musky pretentiousness. From Wordnik.com. [Rational Review] Reference
On the eagerness with which Matthew Arnold followed the revolutionary spectacle of 1848, an unpublished letter written -- piquantly enough!. From Wordnik.com. [A Writer's Recollections — Volume 1] Reference
"Ah, I will write more about this blubberer, for the answer to him is piquantly involved. From Wordnik.com. [Fantazius Mallare A Mysterious Oath] Reference
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