Of course, picquet was a game where skill was practically bound to win.
Why, my dear man, he was playing picquet like a professor when you were in short frocks.
Loyal Heart had the simple idea of forming a running knot at the end of his picquet rope, and lassoing the first rider who passed within reach.
On one occasion my host pointed to the dark wall of hills on which three tiny white specks, the Picquet Towers of my fort, shone out in the sunlight.
The three white square towers, which stood on the spurs running down from Sinchula were known as the Picquet Towers, and, conspicuous against the dark mountains could be seen for many miles from the plains below.
Far away as we were we could see the white specks of the Picquet Towers at Buxa.
To the right I can now see the mountains towering above us; and, two thousand feet up, on the dark face of the hills, the three Picquet Towers of Buxa shine out in the sun.
Before the sun had risen above the Picquet Towers, my white-robed Mohammedan servant woke me to the labours of the day, as the bugles in the fort were sounding the "dress for parade.
And finally told of the picquet we now had during lessons, not caring to shield myself.
They betted away the week at billiards or whist or picquet or loo, and sometimes measured swords for diversion, tho' this pastime the bailiff was greatly set against; as calculated to deprive him of a lodger.
And then we had more racing; and whist and quinze and pharaoh and hazard, until I was obliged to write another draft upon Mr. Dix to settle the wails: and picquet in the travelling-chaise all the way to London.
My Aunt Caroline, when she was not at picquet with Mr. Allen or quarrelling with Mrs. Willis or with Grafton himself, yawned without cessation.
We found the Italian picquet at the Ha-ta end of Legation Street nearly mad with excitement; the men were crimson and shouting at one another.
There was hardly a sentry or a picquet to be seen, only a hundred of little camp-fires twinkling and twinkling everywhere.
In this curious fashion the memorable night of the 12th passed away, with sometimes one picquet firing, sometimes another, and with everybody waiting wearily for the morning.
Many will remember the spot where this picquet was posted as the most ill-chosen, inconvenient, and hard platform for a bed on a rainy night.
They attempted to capture the picquet on the bridge over the Spekboom River, but were beaten off.
I thought it was the usual picquet and that they had gone right back (it was too dark to see much); but such was not the case, for they had concealed themselves in a fold in the ground about 300 yards to our front.
This picquet extended and lay down across the main road at the foot of the forward work.
Under cover of darkness, the column rendezvoused at the Spekboom Bridge, one company having gone on ahead to seize any Boers who might be coming down at nightfall, as was their wont, to form a picquet there.
In addition to the works on Devon Post, which were manned by the Regiment, a half-company picquet was told off nightly.
Regiment under Captain Bartlett, and the 5th and 6th West Australians, made a night march to the south, capturing a picquet of six Boers early next morning.
It was learnt, however, that a Boer picquet had been on the top, and had galloped off on the approach of the infantry.
The Major, who was quite forgiven by this time, had wheeled a little table up to Cleopatra, and was sitting down to play picquet with her.
The ships of war for the most part escaped, but La Motte Picquet carried twenty-two out of thirty merchant ships into Brest before he could be intercepted, although a detachment of eight sail sent by Darby got close upon his heels.
While Darby was returning, La Motte Picquet had gone to sea from Brest with six ships of the line and some frigates to cruise in the approaches to the Channel.
La Motte-Picquet evidently did not wait to ascertain the size of the approaching ships.
A shot rang out in the stillness: the Grenadier under the thorn came back on his picquet at the double.
But the old feelings will come back again, and we shall drown old sorrows over a game of picquet again.
A disastrous affair on the 1st of September, in which the picquet was driven in with loss, and Major Moneypenny most severely wounded, encouraged them to this daring effort on the 3d.
Collins to play a game at picquet to divert the time, until they opened fire.
We learned from the same papers that Mr. de La Motte-Picquet had captured a rich convoy.
We returned to Windsor as usual, and there I was, just as usual, obliged to finish every evening with picquet !
Now, let us hear no more of the cub, but have our picquet in peace.
Thenceforth the Jesuits devoted themselves to their mission at Sault St. Louis; though at a later period the Sulpitian Picquet gathered a new mission at the Presentation, now Ogdensburg, in 1748.
The Russian picquet was posted 300 yards in our front.
On one occasion, while playing at picquet with Dr.
On the 8th August Ayoub opened fire on the citadel from Picquet hill, an elevation north-westward of the city, and a few days later he brought guns into action from the villages of Deh Khoja and Deh Khati on the east and south.
Picquet hill began a vigorous cannonade of the Babawali Kotul, which was sturdily replied to by the three field-guns the enemy had in battery on that elevation.
Considerable numbers of Ayoub's troops had earlier pushed through the Babawali Pass, and moved down toward the right front of General Burrows' Bombay brigade in position about Picquet hill.
Prince Eugene of Savoy was there too every Night, where he play'd constantly at Picquet with the Countess de Badiani and some other Ladies.
Picquet has made a beginning which in my opinion promises a good end.
The news soon spread through Lyons that Picquet had touched the shield of Messire Claude, and it came to the ears of the Sire de Ligny, who would not have missed it for ten thousand crowns.
DEARS AGAIN,--Your letter interrupted a seventh game at picquet which we were having, after walking to Wright's and purchasing shoes.
But the old feelings will come back again, and we shall drown old sorrows over a game of Picquet again.
This result became still more imminent, when, in the year 1749, the French priest Picquet established his mission of La Presentation on the St. Lawrence, at the site of Ogdensburg.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "picquet" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
