"Piquet" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... piquet de lansquenets escorte, Qui tient une banniere inclinee, et qui porte Une jacque de vair taillee en eventail, Un heraut, fait ce cri ...
— La Legende des Siecles • Victor Hugo
... was deep in a game of piquet at the other end of the room, whispered to Martin Burney to ask if Junius would not be a fit person to invoke from the dead. 'Yes,' said Lamb, 'provided he would agree to lay aside ...
— Old and New London - Volume I • Walter Thornbury
... command of D'Estaing, who had with him on the Languedoc, his flagship, a regularly appointed envoy, Girard de Rayneville, who had full power to recognize the independence of the States, Silas Deane, one of the American commissioners, and such well-known officers as the comte de la Motte-Piquet, the Bailli de Suffren, De Guichen, D'Orvilliers, De Grasse and others. The history of this first expedition is a short and disastrous one. The voyage was long, owing to the ships being unequally matched in speed, and it was ninety days after leaving Toulon before they ...
— Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Vol. 26, September 1880 • Various
... MacMonnies told to Florence Crewden his experiences in exploring Southern Greenland by aeroplane with the Schliess-Banning expedition. At bruncheon Bobby Winslow, now an interne, talked baseball with Carl. At bruncheon Phil Dunleavy regarded cynically all the people he did not know and played piquet in ...
— The Trail of the Hawk - A Comedy of the Seriousness of Life • Sinclair Lewis
... profligate French women, who ruled the councils of Europe in the middle of the last century, were clever women; and that philosopheress Madame du Chatelet, who managed, at one and the same moment, the thread of an intrigue, her cards at piquet, and a calculation in algebra, was a very clever woman! If Portia had been created as a mere instrument to bring about a dramatic catastrophe—if she had merely detected the flaw in Antonio's bond, and used it as a means to baffle the Jew, she might have ...
— Characteristics of Women - Moral, Poetical, and Historical • Anna Jameson
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