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• To conclude: Servan's witty, piquant, agreeably written pamphlet was worthy under this triple claim of the reception with which the public honoured it; but it did not shake, in any one part, the lucid, majestic, elegant report by Bailly. —  Biographies of Distinguished Scientific Men
• If we are grateful to Myron Adams of 19th-century Rochester, New York, for the piquant, redolent language of Grandfather Stories, we should feel even more indebted to the phonographic memory, discriminating ear, and literary art of his admiring grandson, Samuel Hopkins Adams. —  VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol X No 4
• “There was something piquant, and what we term pretty, in Miss Milbanke. —  The Life of Lord Byron
• "who, besides her inimitable airs with Mdlle. de Mendi, and her queerly-piquant Mazurkas, gave the Cenerentola rondo, graced with great brilliancy; and a song by Beethoven, 'Ich denke dein.'" —  Frederic Chopin as a Man and Musician
• For on January 1832, he wrote to Frederick Wieck: "Chopin's first work (I believe firmly that it is his tenth) is in my hands: a lady would say that it was very pretty, very piquant, almost Moschelesque. —  Frederic Chopin as a Man and Musician

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