Is it not, indeed, a fascinating little story, with its piquant contrasts and its wild love-at-all-costs?

They continually invited me to partake of food, and when after eating heartily I declined the viands they continued to offer me, they seemed to think that my appetite stood in need of some piquant stimulant to excite its activity.

Were such the custom now, perchance we might find materials for a no less piquant sketch than the above.

"Your remarks are piquant and highly-seasoned, but you need a scattering of commonsense.

It was very fetching to make the girl propose in the course of being reunited, and Martin discovered, bit by bit, other decidedly piquant and fetching ruses.

Everybody knew by sight now the piquant little freckled face that had always a smile of greeting; and almost everybody knew of the "game" that Pollyanna was playing.

It gives to the wearer a singularly piquant and alluring aspect.

As to his good looks, I should have liked to have a woman's opinion on that subject; it seemed to me that his face might produce the same effect on a lady that a very piquant and interesting, though scarcely pretty, female face would on a man.

Hunger is a luxury to us, a piquant , flavor-giving sauce.

A certain alertness seemed to have deserted her usually piquant face.

It would be the most piquant , the most wonderful cross examination every heard--the woman lying to save her honor and to achieve her vengeance; the man on trial for his life.