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Moscheles, one of the severe classical pianists of the German school, writes as follows in 1861 in a letter to a friend: "In Gounod I hail a real composer. I have heard his 'Faust' both at Leipsic and Dresden, and am charmed with that refined, piquant music.
Lord Robert Cecil, the son of the late Lord Salisbury, that same Lord Salisbury whose combats with Secretary Blaine and Secretary Olney form piquant chapters in British-American history is one of the most able and respected of British statesmen.
While a young infantry subaltern at a Gulf station, he had been attracted by the piquant foreign accent and dramatic gestures of a French Creole widow, and believing them, in the first flush of his youthful passion more than an offset to the encumbrance of her two children who, with the memory of various marital infidelities were all her late husband had left her had proposed, been accepted, and promptly married to her.
It's a jolly good thing for me that I'm your husband or you wouldn't leave me a blessed patch of reputation to my back." His humor held him convulsed for several minutes, during which interval Gerty continued to regard him with her piquant cynicism. "Well, if it wasn't Madame Alta it was somebody who is voiceless," she retorted coolly. "I merely meant that there must have been a reason."
A portrait in the possession of the late Duke de Luynes represents her as having an admirable figure, a charming expression of countenance, large and well-opened blue eyes, chesnut-tinted fair hair in great abundance, a well-formed neck, with the loveliest bust possible, and throughout her entire person a piquant blending of delicacy, grace, vivacity, and passion.
'Well, I suppose it is intended for satire; but don't think anything more of it now, my dear. It is seven o'clock. And Mrs. Swancourt rang for her maid. Attack is more piquant than concord. Stephen's letter was concerning nothing but oneness with her: the review was the very reverse.
Volochine was eager to have details of the other's conquests. A little vein just below his left knee throbbed convulsively. Sarudine, however, was not thinking of such piquant details, but of the distressing events of the last few days. He turned towards the garden and drummed with his fingers on the window-sill.
"Is it?" "The nineteenth of February ah, I have you there! Was it not was it not a pleasant employment for a snowy night to sit by the fire and learn news of an enemy news the more piquant for the lips that gave it!" "You are speaking, sir, both madly and falsely!" They pressed their horses more closely together. Cary was pale with anger, but upon Rand's face was a curious darkness.
Augustin makes great fun of these people who would think it a sin if they took as a full meal a small bit of bacon and cabbage, with two or three mouthfuls of undiluted wine, and yet ordered to be served up, from three o'clock in the afternoon, all kinds of fruit and vegetables, the most exquisite too, rendered piquant by spices, the Manichees holding that spices were very full of fiery and luminous principles.
The arms under her head tilted her face so the light fell on it. It was a narrow, piquant face, with no lines to mar its delicacy. The odd difference in the eyebrows, which had fascinated Alexina as a child, one arched, one straight, lent laughter to it even in repose. Yet the mouth drooped, like a child's, with pathos and appeal. Could one say no to that mouth, it was so wistful?
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