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1532 T. Cromwell in R. B. Merriman Life & Lett. T. Cromwell (1902) I. 349 Which Edmond Knightley hathe..trauayled..to sett pyke betwene the sayd ladye and the executors.

1540 in State Papers Henry VIII (1849) VIII. 464 There were some that wolde be right gladde to here Your Majestie and He were in picke togythers.

1596 in A. Collins Lett. & Mem. State (1746) II. 21 They are in Picke against these.

1619 J. Chamberlain Let. 20 Nov. in R. F. Williams Birch's Court & Times James I (1848) (modernized text) II. 195 But I hear there is a new pique fallen out.

1661 O. Felltham Resolves (rev. ed.) 267 Between entirest friends,..sometimes little peeks of coldness may appear.

1691 A. Wood Athenæ Oxonienses II. 92 Because of a Pique that had been between the Abbots and Bishop Laud.

1716 Lady M. W. Montagu Let. 30 Aug. (1965) I. 257 Ladys are not wanting on their side in cherishing and improving these important piques, which divides the Town allmost into as many partys as there are familys.

1757 R. Griffith & E. Griffith Lett. Henry & Frances I. xlviii. 81 We should behave well to our Friends out of Love, and to our Enemies out of Picque.

1766 O. Goldsmith Elegy Mad Dog in Vicar of Wakefield I. 175 This dog and man at first were friends; But when a pique began, The dog..Went mad, and bit the man.

1869 L. M. Alcott Little Women II. v. 64 Be the first to ask pardon if you both err, and guard against the little piques, misunderstandings, and hasty words.

1901 Eng. Hist. Rev. 16 448 The king's resentment at this seemed due to nothing much more than personal pique between George II and his brother-in-law Frederick William.

1997 India Abroad (Nexis) 14 Nov. 2 The pique between India and the U.S..long stood in the way of realizing the broad range of compatibilities that underlyingly have always existed between these two countries.