Pique Dame," by Tschaikowsky, also performed at the Metropolitan Opera House, had little in it that could be recognized as characteristically Russian.
There was just a slight feeling of pique in him as he realized how little popular stir his doings had caused, and this lack of interest somehow lessened his satisfaction.
Just for one moment, while reading, Monica had experienced the slightest feeling of pique that her husband should have chosen Angus as the recipient of his instructions for herself.
And I will add, that your conduct towards me, so far as I knew, had always been gentlemanly, and that I had no personal pique against you, and no cause for any.
We will state further, that said article was written solely for political effect, and not to gratify any personal pique against Mr. Shields, for he had none and knew of no cause for any.
This dog and man at first were friends; But when a pique began, The dog, to gain his private ends, Went mad, and bit the man.
The immediate results were fragmentary, serving to pique rather than satisfy; a series of hors d'oeuvres that I began to suspect must form the whole repast.
One who has been a member of the household for many years is at last dismissed at the dictate of some petty pique or spite as remorselessly and inhumanly as a piece of old furniture might be parted with.
Interest is more lasting, perhaps, and steady, but weaker; I will ever back pique against them both.
Even in a highly civilised age we find an English statesman saying: "Pique is one of the strongest motives in the human mind.
We seem to pique ourselves greatly on the superiority of our taste in these matters; but let us pique ourselves rather on our theatrical censorship.
With which words Hoffland laughed so merrily and with such a musical, ringing, contagious joy, that Mowbray's feeling of pique at this unceremonious allusion to his sister passed away completely, and he could not utter a word.
Lord Dartmouth, full of inveterate prejudices against the king, charges him with personal pique against Sir John Fenwick, and with instigating members to vote for the bill.
Whence it sprang, he could not tell--he knew Louise too well to believe, for a moment, that she would make use of pique to hide her feelings.
His Highness describes how he bided his time, as though he were laying siege to a courted beauty, and almost daily bombarded the Lady of Jôon with letters calculated to pique her curiosity by their frank and original style.
But even more than her poetry did she pique herself upon her epistolary correspondence.
I agree with you, that " they don't pique themselves upon understanding sense, any more than Deutralities!
It was to pique my Lady Rochford, in return for the Prince of Hesse.
Sir John Norris was not present; he has resigned all his employments, in a pique for not being named of the new Admiralty.
So engrossed was I in the events surrounding the victory over the grass I could not conceive why any broker would want to see me and so put off my visit several times, till the urgency of the calls began to pique my curiosity.
The seaman had always evinced a settled pique against the red-faced warrior.
So out of a good-humored pique the housekeeper was summoned to consultation before us all.
She was fast friends with them now, especially with Margaret, even to the length of exciting a little pique in Lettice Deane.
This seemed to pique the petted creature, for, slowly approaching, he came at length so close that he could smell her little foot and nibble at her dress.
Nor have I since witnessed any symptom ofpique on his part, or renewed attempts at conquest upon hers.
She had asked Henry Ward whether it were so, and he had replied with pique that he had no means of judging, he had never been called in at the Grange.
It is possible that local pique and a horror of certain crude surroundings may have had something to do with the original want of recognition in New England, but such sources of prejudice would be ephemeral.
The path turns to the rear of the hospice and crawls up a green slope, commanding finely the black sugar-loaf of the Pic de laPique opposite.
In November Tschaikowsky went to St. Petersburg for a rehearsal of Pique Dame.
I composed an opera, ‘Pique Dame,’ which seems a success to me.
Then Tschaikowsky pinned great hopes on his operas Eugene Onegin and Pique Dame (“The Queen of Spades”).
