My belief is that the enemy will content themselves with placing a piquet on each of the two roads which run through their position; but it is possible that they will also post sentry-groups in the wood which lies between.
According to the text of the spirited little dialogue in which Mucklewame had been recently rehearsed by his piquet commander, the man on the bicycle ought to have said "Friend!
On the march the mental gymnastics involved by the formation of an advanced guard or the disposition of a piquet line are removed to a safe distance.
But piquet was named because it is supposed in the Stumfoldian world to be the wickedest of all games.
There were Stumfoldians who declared that she had been seen through the blinds teaching her own maid piquet on a Sunday afternoon; but any horror will get itself believed nowadays.
Aunt Gainor, also, was eager for town and piquet and well pleased with the excuse to return, having remained at the Hill long after her usual time.
As she entered he looked at his watch, but Mistress Gainor was to-day in high good humor, having won at piquet of Mrs. Bingham the night before enough to make her feel comfortably pleased with Gainor Wynne.
When we arrived at Kings Bridge I was put under the Provost Guard where to, my sorrow, I found a man by the name of Prichard, who was one of Capt Alden's Piquet and belonged to the State Guards of Connecticut.
Webbs Regiment, was detached, with about fifty men to command the advanced Piquet on the left, near West Chester.
The father of that little marvel is one of papa's piquet players at the club.
Papa has but one passion: from five to seven every day he plays piquet at his club, at ten sous a point, and as he is an excellent player, he wins seven times out of ten.
They continued to talk, in high good-humor and in excellent accord, and went on with their game of piquet only after having sent the following two telegrams to the Hôtel de Noailles: First despatch to Mme.
Blessed be the king who introduced cards, and the kind inventors of piquet and cribbage, for they employed six hours at least of her ladyship's day, during which her family was pretty easy.
Mr. Holt would sit with her at piquet during hours together, at which time she behaved herself properly; and as for Dr.
With your piquet and your racing and your billiards and what not, you'll be used up before you're fifty.
Here a company was stationed to serve the double purpose of a piquet and a rear-guard; whilst the main body, having rested for half an hour, began their march towards the point where they had landed.
There was a small piquet of the enemy stationed at the entrance of the creek by which it was intended to effect our landing.
As soon as the column had got sufficiently on their way the piquet likewise prepared to follow.
It so happened that the piquet in question was this day under my command; as soon, therefore, as I received information that the main body had commenced its retreat, I formed my men, and made a show of advancing.
Besides all this, to undertake the duty of a piquet was as dangerous as to go into action.
The piquet players have played their game with a certain distraction, and during the last few speeches have made no more pretence of playing at all.
Why don’t you have a game of piquet with me, Colonel?
Having matters thus arranged, desire a person to draw a card from a piquet pack, offering that card against which you have placed the pin of the dial, which you may easily do, by having a card a little longer than the rest.
Let the long card be the sixteenth in the pack of piquet cards.
Take three cards from the piquet pack, and place one of them in each of the divisions e f g, making the silk thread or line go under each of them.
To name the Rank of a Card that a Person has drawn from a Piquet Pack.
Four Jacks (Polignac or Quatre-Valets) is usually played with a piquet pack, the cards ranking in France as at ecarte, but in Great Britain and America as at piquet.
Enfle (or Schwellen) is usually played by four persons with a piquet pack and for a pool.
Mr. Warde talked kindly to Margaret about the books she was anxious to read, and Mr. Haveloc played a game of piquet with Mr. Grey.
When we had done, the lady said she would like to get up; and I went out, promising to return and play piquetwith her.
Wishing to avoid the game of piquet which formed our usual afternoon's amusement, I took a cup of coffee, and said that I thought the fresh air would do me good.
The Piquet will stand to arms, every man in his allotted place, an hour before dawn, and will remain alert until the patrols (which are invariably sent out about that time) have reported absence of movement by the enemy.
A sentry will always be posted over the Piquet, to watch the Sentry Groups and connecting sentries, and ready to alarm the Piquet at any moment of need.
The most efficient way to protect a Convoy is to piquet the road daily with troops sent out from posts on the line; but when it is necessary to send a Convoy by a route which cannot be protected in this way a special escort must be provided.
Each Piquet should consist of a complete unit and should be posted on a good defensive position.
All troops in the Outpost Line must entrench themselves, if posted as sentries, or in the Piquet or Support positions, and must be ready at any moment to resist a sudden attack.
Standing patrols may also have to be furnished, if required to watch some special point, particularly at night, or at the junction of roads converging towards the Piquet line, at cross roads, etc.
These Piquet positions will be strengthened, when required, by the Supports, who will either assist in manning the defences of the Piquets or will occupy similarly prepared defensive posts on the flank.
The commander must impress on all men of his Piquet the importance of gaining a clear mental picture of their surroundings while daylight lasts, so that they may the more easily find their way about by night.
In certain cases the Sentry Groups are permitted in face of a heavy attack to fall back to the Piquets, but if they do so they must be warned of the danger of arriving headlong on the Piquet only just ahead of the enemy.
If invisible from theirPiquet a connecting sentry should be posted by the Piquet commander.
Last night there had been another tete-a-tete while Madame and Captain Guest played piquet at the end of the room; this morning there had been yet another, when Elma was first installed in the garden, and Madame was interviewing her staff.
To tell you the honest truth, Miss Briskett, I'm just a bit fed up with playing gooseberry by day, and piquet (with Madame!
This day the Ship sailed out of cambridge Bay and their was another came and took her place at night I went on the piquet without any supper nothing remarkable.
We turned out this morning before day and went to our alarm post nothing remarkable this day at night I went upon the piquet down to Lambs Dam[152] nothing more remarkable.
Nothing remarkable hapned at night I went upon the piquet and nothing hapned worth a mentioning.
This day the Long faced People trained at Wrentham and Serg Felt went upon the piquet and fired several times upon the centrys.
This day Nothing very remarkable this day the piquet was made easier by half &c.
I went upon the piquet down to the george tavern and the enemy fired several small arms at us but did us no Damage.
At last, trying first one thing, then another, he found that what she was after was to playpiquet with him.
After this they often played a quiet game of piquet together, and cribbage too.
In the drawing-room I played my piquet with Mrs. Rushworth, while Paragot sat with Joanna in a far corner.
My dear Clive, you people don't know what piquetis in England.
The white damask table cloth, which remained from their breakfast, had been turned back and the two were playing piquet on the bare half of the table.
Serge," said the man who had been addressed as Pitt at the piquet table, "if you go on with your famous wise sayings, you will punish Wedell more severely than he deserves.
Joncaire had gained over most of the Senecas, Piquet was drawing the Onondagas more and more to his mission, and the Dutch of Albany were alienating their best friends, the Mohawks, by encroaching on their lands.
If you stay much at home I will come and shut myself up with you for three weeks or a month, and play at piquet from morning till night; and you shall laugh at my short red hair as much as you please.
Piquet gave them a feast, then discoursed of religion, and at last persuaded them to remove to the new mission.
Piquet and his company found the pork and bacon very bad, and he complains that "there was not brandy enough in the fort to wash a wound.
Piquet reconnoitred it from his canoe with the eye of a soldier.
The playing at piquet was a sacrifice to filial attachment; for the mother loved cards, and the son did not.
The priest Piquet was of the party; and five deserters declared that he solemnly blessed them, and told them to give the English no quarter.
It was clear that the Native officers' party near the Mound piquethad been treacherous; none of them were ever seen again, and it was generally believed that they had joined the enemy in their dash through the camp.
To protect this part of the position as much as possible, a battery of three 18-pounders and an Infantry piquet was placed on what was known as the General's Mound, with a Cavalry piquet and two Horse Artillery guns immediately below.
Beyond the observatory was an old Pathan mosque, in which was placed an Infantry piquet with two field-guns.
In order to prevent the mutineers from coming to such close quarters again, a piquetwas placed in Metcalfe's House, and the Mound to the rear of the ridge facing the Sabzi Mandi was strengthened.
The main piquet on the Guru occupied a position upon some precipitous cliffs known as the Eagle's Nest, while that on the right was designated the 'Crag piquet.
I found myself under fire for the first time on the 30th June, when an attack was made on the Sabzi Mandi piquet and Hindu Rao's house.
The main piquet was established at Hindu Rao's house, a large stone building, in former days the country residence of some Mahratta Chief.
If the Hindu Rao's piquet cannot be moved, I do not think we shall be strong enough to take the city.
On the morning of the 10th they made themselves known to a piquet of Punjab Cavalry on duty near the Alambagh.
The piquet was hardly pressed, Knox and several men were killed, and but for the timely arrival of two companies of the 60th, the rebels would have gained the day.
She still enjoyed her quiet game of piquet with Père Denys, a kindly and amusing man with a keen sense of humor, read the books which suited her, and exercised a charitable tolerance unknown to the fanatics by whom she was surrounded.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "piquet" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
