A 'piquet' of 'gens d'armes', he said, was all that was necessary.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Memoirs of Napoleon]

"She asks you, Baroness, to take a hand at piquet.".    From Wordnik.com.  [The False Chevalier or, The Lifeguard of Marie Antoinette] Reference

Come, you shall sit down to piquet with Mr. Surface.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Ontario Readers: The High School Reader, 1886] Reference

'F' and 'B' companies were left behind on piquet duty.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Second Battalion Royal Dublin Fusiliers in the South African War With a Description of the Operations in the Aden Hinterland] Reference

A corporal in charge of a piquet went out to inspect his men.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Siege of Kimberley] Reference

We paraded nothing remarkable I went down to the piquet. the 23, 24.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Military Journals of Two Private Soldiers, 1758-1775 With Numerous Illustrative Notes] Reference

Metcalfe House, the stable piquet, and the mosque piquet on the Ridge.    From Wordnik.com.  [Forty-one years in India From Subaltern To Commander-In-Chief] Reference

The piquet was on the point of being relieved by a detachment of the 2nd.    From Wordnik.com.  [Forty-one years in India From Subaltern To Commander-In-Chief] Reference

He won three francs of me at piquet, with a ridiculous display of triumph.    From Wordnik.com.  [French and Oriental Love in a Harem] Reference

Being Sunday nothing remarkable at night I went on the piquet guard. the 7.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Military Journals of Two Private Soldiers, 1758-1775 With Numerous Illustrative Notes] Reference

Nothing remarkable hapened this day at night I went upon the piquet. the 4.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Military Journals of Two Private Soldiers, 1758-1775 With Numerous Illustrative Notes] Reference

Felt went upon the piquet and fired several times upon the centrys. the 14.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Military Journals of Two Private Soldiers, 1758-1775 With Numerous Illustrative Notes] Reference

He won eleven francs from him at piquet, playing for a franc the hundred points.    From Wordnik.com.  [French and Oriental Love in a Harem] Reference

This day Nothing very remarkable this day the piquet was made easier by half &c. &c.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Military Journals of Two Private Soldiers, 1758-1775 With Numerous Illustrative Notes] Reference

I've played piquet wi 'the old rogue a score of times in the Sun tavern of Rotterdam.    From Wordnik.com.  [Doom Castle] Reference

On the lone bivouac, or remote piquet, duty must frequently chase sleep from his eyelids.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Love Story] Reference

I crackled a way among twigs and undergrowth until the piquet called out, "Who goes there?".    From Wordnik.com.  [Pushed and the Return Push] Reference

Yet fortune favored me, for later in the evening, when they were preparing the piquet-tables.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Rose of Old St. Louis] Reference

In the afternoon, heavy rains, which made piquet duty none too pleasant, came down in torrents.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Siege of Kimberley] Reference

The soldiers who formed the piquet had never seen anything of the kind before, and as the sentinel at.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Sailor of King George] Reference

Nothing remarkable hapned at night I went upon the piquet and nothing hapned worth a mentioning. the 24.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Military Journals of Two Private Soldiers, 1758-1775 With Numerous Illustrative Notes] Reference

Beyond the observatory was an old Pathan mosque, in which was placed an Infantry piquet with two field-guns.    From Wordnik.com.  [Forty-one years in India From Subaltern To Commander-In-Chief] Reference

The battalion halted close to Venter's Spruit, and had a piquet ( 'H' company) on the Trichardt's Drift road.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Second Battalion Royal Dublin Fusiliers in the South African War With a Description of the Operations in the Aden Hinterland] Reference

At the extreme right of the Ridge, overlooking the trunk road, there was a strong piquet with a heavy battery.    From Wordnik.com.  [Forty-one years in India From Subaltern To Commander-In-Chief] Reference

I went upon the piquet down to the george tavern and the enemy fired several small arms at us but did us no Damage. the 30.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Military Journals of Two Private Soldiers, 1758-1775 With Numerous Illustrative Notes] Reference

But should the piquet be negligent in their duty, and suffer the main body to be surprised, the delinquents are severely punished.    From Wordnik.com.  [Voyage of H.M.S. Pandora Despatched to Arrest the Mutineers of the 'Bounty' in the South Seas, 1790-1791] Reference

This day nothing remarkable hapned only I went to work along with the general at Mr. Parkers at night I went upon the piquet. the 13.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Military Journals of Two Private Soldiers, 1758-1775 With Numerous Illustrative Notes] Reference

Baccarat, roulette, piquet, even whist, -- Ivan won at them all, till one drawer in his escritoire was stuffed full of lightly won notes.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Genius] Reference

A piquet of 180 Europeans was accordingly placed in the Sabzi Mandi, part in a serai on one side of the Grand Trunk Road, and the rest in.    From Wordnik.com.  [Forty-one years in India From Subaltern To Commander-In-Chief] Reference

Thunderstorms, Natal thunderstorms, visited the town with painful regularity, and rendered piquet work even more uncomfortable than usual.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Second Battalion Royal Dublin Fusiliers in the South African War With a Description of the Operations in the Aden Hinterland] Reference