They sat in the drawing-room playing picquet with the door open.

The point was to fire fast to persuade the French that they had run into a strong picquet line.

They used to play games together, picquet, you know, and lots of things."

"And I want a night picquet too, so make sure a couple of the lads get some sleep today."

Morris did not like the idea of a senior officer coming to the picquet line, but he could hardly send the man away.

Why, my dear man, he was playing picquet like a professor when you were in short frocks.

He reads Thackeray to me in the evenings, and we usually have a game of picquet.

The message was passed along the picquet line and the men ran at a crouch back to where Morris waited.

Aren't you supposed to be on picquet duty?

A picquet challenged them at the village, and Sharpe asked the man where he would find the cavalry lines.

Their green jackets blended better with the leaves, offering them a small advantage if there was a French picquet ahead, but they saw no one.

Of course, picquet was a game where skill was practically bound to win.

Sharpe now rode back through the village to where a picquet watched the enemy approaching from the south.

Sevajee's men rode far ahead now, spread into a picquet line to give warning of any enemy.

Next evening he presented himself at the palace to play picquet with the King and to make his court to the Princess.

These squares are done with double picquets, each picquet ten foot long and six inches thick.

Joseph Picquet made many more trips back to France to bring other family members to the new colony.

They went for walks, they played picquet, and poker patience with each other in the evenings.

He had broken through the picquet lines.

The punishment of the picquet required placing a stake in the ground with the exposed end facing upward.

Its very presence meant Sharpe had to keep his battalion on the frontier, leaving only a picquet to guard the road south of the village.

Sharpe called in his Light Company, then sent them back to join Smith's picquet.

He knew there was a senior officer visiting the picquet line because the message telling of the Colonel's presence had been passed down the line.

They patrolled the valleys on either side, had another strong picquet to the south and dismounted men watching from the wood's edge.

"I brought the boys some picquet juice."