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  • Gerard Pique and substitute David Villa also netted against their former club and Pique's central defensive partner Carles Puyol scored a rare goal.

    La Liga round-up: José Mourinho pelted after Real win at Valencia 2011

  • I look forward to Spain chasing the game in the last few minutes and sacrificing Xavi and Iniesta while they lump it onto Llorente and possibly Pique's noggin in desperation.

    World Cup 2010 live blog: 8 July 2010

  • There are several specimens of Pique's instruments upon which have been lavished care and skill of a very high order.

    The Violin Its Famous Makers and Their Imitators George Hart

  • He portrays very picturesquely the grief of the _Pique's_ crew when they find they are not going to engage; how they come aft and request to be taken into action; how Captain Maitland reads them his instructions, but "fails to persuade them that there had been any necessity of issuing them"; and, finally, how the sailors, overcome by woe and indignation, refuse to take their supper-time grog, -- which was certainly remarkable.

    The Naval War of 1812 Or the History of the United States Navy during the Last War with Great Britain to Which Is Appended an Account of the Battle of New Orleans Theodore Roosevelt 1888

  • There was no question about surrender, for under the menace of that row of guns no ship of the Pique's force, even if uninjured, could resist.

    Mr. Midshipman Easy Marryat, Frederick, 1792-1848 1873

  • Pellew had seen the smoke, and had deduced the reason for the Pique's heaving to, and had made his preparations as he came up.

    Mr. Midshipman Easy Marryat, Frederick, 1792-1848 1873

  • Soon after this the lashings broke loose, when the _Pique_, as she was crossing the stern of the _Blanche_, which began to pay off for want of after-sail, again fell on board on the starboard-quarter, her hawser having just before been got on deck, the _Pique's_ bowsprit was lashed to the stump of the _Blanche's_ main-mast.

    How Britannia Came to Rule the Waves Updated to 1900 William Henry Giles Kingston 1847

  • _Pique's_ starboard bow, she answering in return with musketry from her tops, as also from some of her quarter-deck guns, which had been run in amidships fore and aft.

    How Britannia Came to Rule the Waves Updated to 1900 William Henry Giles Kingston 1847

  • The bowsprit of the _Pique_ passing over the starboard-quarter of the _Blanche_, Captain Faulkner, aided by his second lieutenant and two others of his crew, was in the act of lashing the _Pique's_ bowsprit to her capstern, when he was shot by a musket-ball through the heart.

    How Britannia Came to Rule the Waves Updated to 1900 William Henry Giles Kingston 1847

  • Gerard Pique's yellow card means he will be suspended for the return leg and the ageing Carles Puyol, who should be back from injury by then, is not the best equipped player to thwart Arsenal's pacy attacks.

    Reuters: Top News Iain Rogers 2011

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