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piquant
1. Brews with a peppery, piquant fragrance
2. One night, Harry bought a bottle of cheap red wine and Anna cooked a piquant stew of sausages, bacon, onions, tomatoes, peppers and paprika
3. And lo, who was her mother? I told about the woman who once prostituted herself for her children’s betterment; what a piquant situation it was for both of us as we recognized each other, maybe owing to her conviction of her compulsion, she didn’t lose her poise, and my appreciation of her character enabled me to retain my composure
4. But this is not always so, some extreme fashions giving opportunities of very piquant and interesting portrait designs
5. nineteen; and the third, much about that age, was a piquant brunette,
6. Then they began to pass around the dusky, piquant, Arlesian sausages, and lobsters in their dazzling red cuirasses, prawns of large size and brilliant color, the echinus with its prickly outside and dainty morsel within, the clovis, esteemed by the epicures of the South as more than rivalling the exquisite flavor of the oyster,—all the delicacies, in fact, that are cast up by the wash of waters on the sandy beach, and styled by the grateful fishermen "fruits of the sea
7. —Let him! she said with a pert toss of her head and a piquant tilt of her nose
8. 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
9. Two of them were extremely fair, the eldest not above nineteen; and the third, much about that age, was a piquant brunette, whose black sparking eyes, and perfect harmony of features and shape, left her nothing to envy in her fairer companions
10. On the contrary, it seemed rather a piquant thing to us to chevy him about the playground and hit him over the shins with a wicket
11. In Rosamond's romance it was not necessary to imagine much about the inward life of the hero, or of his serious business in the world: of course, he had a profession and was clever, as well as sufficiently handsome; but the piquant fact about Lydgate was his good birth, which distinguished him from all Middlemarch admirers, and presented marriage as a prospect of rising in rank and getting a little nearer to that celestial condition on earth in which she would have
12. The Sight of Blood is a pow’rful Aphrodisiack, and nothing is more piquant to the Libertine than a grown Man swinging by the Neck till dead, unless it be a little Girl of Ten
13. Besides, the eccentricity of the proceeding was piquant: I felt interested to see how he would go on
14. I was an intellectual epicure, and wished to prolong the gratification of making this novel and piquant acquaintance: besides, I was for a while troubled with a haunting fear that if I handled the flower freely its bloom would fade—the sweet charm of freshness would leave it
15. Besides, there is that peculiar voice of hers, so animating and piquant, as well as soft: it cheers my withered heart; it puts life into it
16. Fresh scandals have eclipsed it, and their more piquant details have drawn the gossips away from this four-year-old drama