"If you think, Robert," continued Mrs. Willoughby, "that Maud has forgotten you, or shown pique for any little former misunderstanding, during your last absence, you do her injustice.

That would not last; but his cunning told him that with returning sensibility would come pique, resentment, the desire to be avenged.

And papa prepared her for Confirmation, and she did everything with us, and she really is just like one of ourselves," said Jane, as the highest praise imaginable, though any one who contrasted poor Jane's stiff PIQUE (Miss Dadsworth's turn- out) with the grace even of the gray serge, might not think it a compliment.

If she had evinced the least pique or discontentif she had by word or look shown the least resentmenthe would have suspected that she cared for him, and would have been on his guard.

But if she felt any pique she quickly brushed it out of sight, for, as I have said before, she was a young woman who had great command of herself.

To gentle pity then he changes; Thro' wantonness, thro' piques he ranges; But in whatever shape he move, He's still himself, and still is Love.

These ladders, aspiring indefinitely into the air, like Piranesi's stairways, are called technically peak-ladders; and dear banished T.S.K., who always was puzzled to know why Mount Washington kept up such a pique against the sky, would have found his joke fit these ladders with great precision, so frequent the disappointment they create.

" I do not remember what I said, but it was something commonplace, no doubt, but I imagined I perceived a little pique in the young lady.

Serías tú acaso la novia que estuvo a pique de acostarse anoche a oscuras? DOÑA MATILDE.

I recollect having some debate with him once respecting a pique of etiquette, which happened between him and Sir William Drummond, somewhere in Portugal or Spain.

They are ill-fed, ill-clad, and worked in gangs under the superintendence of a driver, who is armed with a long whip, which he uses at discretion; and it is a fact, well known to persons who have visited slave countries, that punishments are more frequently inflicted to gratify the private pique or caprice of the driver, than for crime or neglect of duty.