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  • Pep Guardiola has talked about how crucial Pique is to their brilliance as his control and balance on the ball gives the team an extra midfielder when he steps out from the back and has called Pique the best "attacking defender" in the world.

    Chelsea Blog 2010

  • Pep Guardiola has talked about how crucial Pique is to their brilliance as his control and balance on the ball gives the team an extra midfielder when he steps out from the back and has called Pique the best "attacking defender" in the world.

    Chelsea Blog 2010

  • Pep Guardiola has talked about how crucial Pique is to their brilliance as his control and balance on the ball gives the team an extra midfielder when he steps out from the back and has called Pique the best "attacking defender" in the world.

    Chelsea Blog 2010

  • Circulating Library of the enterprising Mr. Loring must catch their breaths in amazement, when that courteous gentleman hands them for the last new novel -- sandwiched between "Pique" and "Woodburn" -- thoughts of such a compass as that!

    The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 14, No. 84, October, 1864 Various

  • We commend 'Pique' to all lovers of refined, spirited, and detailed home novels.

    The Continental Monthly, Vol. 4, No. 6, December 1863 Devoted to Literature and National Policy Various

  • The characters portrayed in 'Pique' develop themselves through the means of spirited conversations, arising from the surrounding circumstances -- conversations always natural and without exaggeration.

    The Continental Monthly, Vol. 4, No. 6, December 1863 Devoted to Literature and National Policy Various

  • She also fell in with the British thirty-six-gun frigate "Pique," which fled, and escaped pursuit by cutting through a narrow channel during a dark and squally night.

    The Naval History of the United States Volume 2 (of 2) Willis J. Abbot 1898

  • Captain Faulkner hurried to secure it there, for the "Pique," thus held, was exposed to the raking fire of his frigate.

    The Grateful Indian And other Stories William Henry Giles Kingston 1847

  • Captain Faulkner hurried to secure it there, for the "Pique," thus held, was exposed to the raking fire of his frigate.

    The Story of Nelson also "The Grateful Indian", "The Boatswain's Son" William Henry Giles Kingston 1847

  • "Pique," he told her; "he couldn't care for her in the way he might for, well -- you.

    Java Head Joseph Hergesheimer 1917

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