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1 A lady piquantly relates her trials with an army of moles that she cannot "catch, kill, or drive away," although she has tried everything she has ever heard of.

2 The delightful sprite named Expectation, who had whispered so piquantly of this same eventful morn, had basely changed herself into a hideous vampire, and she muttered at him, in frightful, raucous tones.

3 That night Prince Boris wrote a long letter to his "chère maman," in piquantly misspelt French, giving her the gossip of the court, and such family news as she usually craved.

4 The opening credit line — “Upside Down Films and Les Films Upside Down Inc. Present…” — piquantly suggests that the movie is a co-production of the twin planets.

5 The five-member group that most people know as the Temptations is embodied with piquantly detailed individuality by charismatic, supple-voiced actors who astutely convey the imbalanced equations of ego and accommodation in their characters.

6 After admiring a daffodil or tulip, the next step is to smell it; some are piquantly fragrant.

7 In the pitiless daylight she was still piquantly beautiful, though her pale face was still smudged with the remnants of her ceremonial make-up and her eyes were veiled, withdrawn.

8 And Fairy, her piquantly bright features clouded with an unwonted frown, crumpled a letter in her hand.

9 "Neither do you," he stated, in the matter-of-fact tone which he felt to be suited to the piquantly matter-of-fact in her style.

10 “How piquantly wicked he is!” she exclaimed, softly.

11 Really, she was most prepossessing, lively in her movements, her eyes burning, her mouth plastic and piquantly inquiring.

12 The idea was delightfully novel; the girl beautifully audacious; the situation piquantly amusing.

13 Frank lent her his sealskin cap and she felt very grand, and looked piquantly radiant, as she revolved for her mother’s inspection before slipping into her big coat.

14 Egomet, an imp, most piquantly personified by Mr. John Barrow, opened the affair in a moralising strain prophetically applicable to the moment.

15 He served the fish with a piquant sauce.

16 The festival’s most fully realized play was Jordan Harrison’s piquantly funny “Maple and Vine,” directed with verve by Anne Kauffman.

17 That was a half-baked story of adolescent growing pains, which lacked the piquantly detailed character portraits with which Mr. Gurney is associated.

18 Amid the cousins’ piquantly expressed reproaches relating to the cultural, religious and historical aspects of Judaism, “Bad Jews” also hones in on the kind of long-simmering resentments that are the bane of many families.

19 “What am I supposed to do about it? Dying day,” Mr. Schatz sang, confronting mortality with confidence and exasperation in his piquantly reedy voice.

20 With her dark, wide-brimmed hat, her remarkably fair hair, her fresh, clear complexion and her diminutive but piquantly womanly figure, she assuredly need not fear any ordinary comparison.

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