Lexicographical Neighbors of Piquancies
Literary usage of Piquancies
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A History of Criticism and Literary Taste in Europe from the Earliest Texts by George Saintsbury (1917)
"... Richardson, Scott, and Byron of persons to "like" otherwise than (very numerous
and full of piquancies), "grossly" in Dryden's sense, or to Crabbe, ..."
2. All the Year Round: A Weekly Journal by Charles Dickens (1869)
"... time the incomparable Minette, lured at great cost from some French dancing
garden, throws us into ecstasies of delight by her diverting piquancies, ..."
3. A History of the Pianoforte and Pianoforte Players by Oskar Bie, Ernest Edward Kellett, Edward Woodall Naylor (1899)
"These are Polish piquancies, tender and shining eyes of inner fire, with happy
heavy lids, and gently curved outlines, in which pride and spirit blend ..."
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