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It is a hard cheese with piquant taste and rich flavor.
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The latter three Misery novels had been little more than straightforward adventure tales with a fair amount of piquantly described sex thrown in to please the ladies.† (source)
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She wanted to leave, she wanted to lie alone, facedown on her bed and savor the vile piquancy of the moment, and go back down the lines of branching consequences to the point before the destruction began.† (source)
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'May you do well,' said the guide with her piquant smile.† (source)
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Conway found it piquant to reflect that the lamasery's fortune was to have acquired a man for whom the police of a dozen countries were actively searching; and he would have liked to share the piquancy but for feeling that Barnard had better be left to tell his own story in due course.† (source)
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She had a round, sly, piquant face and pretty black eyes.† (source)
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Clyde noted that a small, dark girl dressed in pink with a pretty and yet saucy and piquant face, nodded to him.† (source)
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The Little Theaters, which were to give piquancy to American drama three or four years later, were only in embryo.† (source)
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"Ah, you should see me Sundays!" she said piquantly.† (source)
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Sir Andrew had been dreaming evidently, gazing into the fire, and seeing therein, no doubt, a pretty, piquant face, with large brown eyes and a wealth of dark curls round a childish forehead.† (source)
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Schwartz's face with his Piccadilly whiskers, and his slim figure in evening dress, had as usual an air of elegant solemnity which contrasted with the playfulness of his character and had a special piquancy here, or so it seemed to Peter Ivanovich.† (source)
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My dear Kitty told me today that she would dance in a deluge before ever she would starve in such an ark of salvation for, as she reminded me (blushing piquantly and whispering in my ear though there was none to snap her words but giddy butterflies), dame Nature, by the divine blessing, has implanted it in our hearts and it has become a household word that il y a deux choses for which the innocence of our original garb, in other circumstances a breach of the proprieties, is the fittest, nay, the only garment.† (source)
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On his way home from his dull call, he would perhaps meet Tony and Lena, coming along the sidewalk whispering to each other, or the three Bohemian Marys in their long plush coats and caps, comporting themselves with a dignity that only made their eventful histories the more piquant.† (source)
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There were much glare and glitter and piquancy and phantasm—much of what has been since seen in "Hernani."† (source)
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These paragraphs, it was said, were so interesting and piquant that they were soon taken.† (source)
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'That's just what gives it piquancy.† (source)
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