"Picquet" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... jusqu'aux extremites de ce nouveau monde, et de plus faire avec quelques secours que vous me procurerez que la France et l'angleterre ne pourraient faire avec plusieurs millions et toutes leur troupes." Copie de la Lettre ecrite par M. l'Abbe Picquet, dattee a la Presentation du 8 Fev. 1752 ...
— Montcalm and Wolfe • Francis Parkman
... of my old age is three games of picquet every night after dinner with my wife, and very much I enjoy them. There is often the fashionable bridge played in the room by my children and their friends, but I have never taken a hand, though in younger days I derived a fair amount of diversion ...
— The Reminiscences of an Irish Land Agent • S.M. Hussey
... breathe, and to run round making inquiries. We found the Italian picquet at the Ha-ta end of Legation Street nearly mad with excitement; the men were crimson and shouting at one another. But there was nothing new to learn. Bands of Boxers had passed the Italian line only eighty or a ...
— Indiscreet Letters From Peking • B. L. Putman Weale
... King's death P R Le Flotte, minister of the republic I R Du Fourney, a furious jacobin P L Marquis de Choiseul la Baum, and his steward G L De Willerval, knight of St. Louis G D Count de Levis, colonel, ex-constituent G R Picquet, aide-de-camp to General La Fayette G D The two Tassins, famous bankers in Paris G L Count de Sombreuil, governor of the invalids, and his son G L The Prince de Rohan Rochefort I D The Comte de Laval Montmorency I R Servaux, ...
— Historical Epochs of the French Revolution • H. Goudemetz
... old beggar!" said Drysdale, "good night, porter; mind you send my message to the proctor. If he is set on seeing me to-morrow, you can say that he will find a broiled chicken and a hand at picquet in my rooms, if he likes to drop in ...
— Tom Brown at Oxford • Thomas Hughes |
