Flip freckled, but, through the cunning of a relief of yellow color in her gown, her piquant brown-shot face and eyes brightened and intensified until she seemed like a spicy odor made visible.
I am afraid that age hath not altogether cleared the spirit of mischief out of my blood; and there is something so piquant in the notion of my acting as substitute for Gladstone that I will be ready if necessity arises.
That I should discourse on Ethics to the University of Oxford and say all I want to say, without a word anybody can quarrel with, is decidedly the most piquant occurrence in my career.
From the pinnacle of his own greatness he makes a piquant repartee.
She certainly flourished in the days of Queen Bess; and Roger North's piquant description of his brother's laundress is applicable to many of her successors who are looking after their perquisites at the present date.
His was a rare andpiquant personality; persona astrattissima e molto a caso, says Vasari, "an absent-minded fellow and very casual.
The former (called after Cosimo Rosselli, his master) was one of the mostpiquant personalities in the art world of Florence, as all readers of Romola know.
To the study of Scottish history Mr Lang brought a scholarly care for detail, a piquant literary style, and a gift for disentangling complicated questions.
It was the most piquant feature of his life that he, one of the gilded youth, a connoisseur in wines, and a learned man to boot, had become agitator and the champion of the working man.
I myself still found in her that piquant directness of approach which, in an earlier moment of temerity, I have ventured to call her impudence; it seasoned and animated her grandeur.
We had one or two, who would have had no objection to be piquant in Lady Teazle, or petulant in Lady Townley; but we had half a dozen Desdemonas and Ophelias.
There is Mr Mulready's good grouping, but somehow or other it is rather flat for so piquant an incident; "I was struck dumb with the apprehension of my own absurdity, when whom should I next see enter the room but my dear Miss Arabella Wilmot.
She considered herself piquant and comely, and she was not deceived.
He did not seem to care that he was in the midst of a busy street, with a piquant widow by his side.
The other kind of women were easy enough to get, and it would be a piquant thing to have one irreproachable affaire.
As it is, how piquant the contrast between woman inside and outside her office hours!
It was a simple yet elegant meal, excellently cooked and daintily served, but the piquant sauce of her own conversation was notably lacking.
She was very well looking, but not as handsome as Margaret, or as pretty and piquant as Dolly.
Even grandmother laid claim to her, for she was delighted with her piquant description of places and people.
She once more proved herself to be the most piquant of comediennes, and the Modus was delightfully sketched.
We have a gay conversation of some minutes on their affairs, in which I mingle sound maxims of government with that piquant legerete which this nation delights in.
His writings preserve them for us in detail on almost every important question that came up during his stay in Europe; couched, moreover, in telling, piquant sentences that leave room for hardly a dull line in either letters or diary.
For in a very short time we got to relish all the expressions so piquant in bawdy language and which give such a zest to the fullest enjoyment.
The consciousness of what I had been doing deepened yet the glowing of my cheeks, flushed with the warmth of the late action, which, joined to the piquant air of my dishabile, drew from Mr. H.
Isabel has come to find strangely piquant the sensation of uncertainty as to the approaching meal.
And yet, on second thought, would it not have a certainpiquant lure, gained from its utter strangeness, which would be simply overwhelming?
Her eyes were bright and dark, her mouth piquant and humorous.
But at the same time I thought that it would be rather--well, piquant to hear the details from you.
To finish with him, we may note that his settlement near Windsor and his assiduous courting of the royal favour finally secured an epitaph quite as piquant as any which George bestowed.
It became piquant when Pitt "playfully" remarked to Mack that a great general had recently arrived at London whose appointment to the command of the British force in Flanders would doubtless meet with his warm approval.
As usually happens, the prosaic truth long remained hidden in British despatches, while the piquant slander gained all but universal acceptance.
Pitt's correspondence also shows that he frequently repulsed the insistent claims of his supporters for titles, a theme on which piquant letters might be adduced.
She must have been flattered, and the incident evidently increased her good humour, as she amused us by her wit and her piquant stories about Lady Montagu.
At this the girl seemed to reflect a moment, and then recited some verses from the Priapeia to the effect that unripe fruit is often more piquant than that which is ripe.
The knowledge added piquancy to the already piquant fact that she had chosen the house on the Three-Notched Road.
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!
But the representation of a Roman comedy, that, however, was a new and piquant pleasure, a surprise for the young queen.
The burning of Christian martyrs and inspired virgins was, under the reign of the Christian king Henry, such a usual and every-day occurrence, that it could afford a piquant entertainment neither to the court nor to himself.
