pique

• Another whisper concerns a concubine killed in a fit of pique, which is a rumour I hear at least twice a year from all over the country, that when investigated has proved true once, to my memory. —  The Game--Laurie King--Mary Russell 07
• Even the severest of her critiques,—that on Longfellow's Poems,—for which an impulse in personal pique has been alleged, I happen with certainty to know had no such origin. —  Memoirs of Margaret Fuller Ossoli, Vol. II
• Suppose I had accepted Wallace out of pique, as I thought of doing for a few mad moments; suppose I had been going to marry him to-morrow--how awful, how perfectly awful I should feel now! —  The Heart of Una Sackville
• Hence the little fit of pique, the outcome of which had been a resolve to show these two resourceful men that he, plain, unpretending seamen though he was, knew a thing or two besides how to handle or navigate a ship, and that, even when it came to such a matter as the knocking up of an impromptu house, he was not disposed to give way to anybody. —  The Missing Merchantman
• That is, if he doesn't sell out his interest in pique--or dudgeon, if you prefer it. —  Jill the Reckless

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