He felt almost a sense of pique that she had yielded so joyously and so suddenly, although confronted with the prospect of a long separation from him.
"The Eye of Dread"
Payne Erskine
He thought he was getting on very well with Deirdre and that she was playing him off against Conal and Davey in a spirit of pique.
"The Pioneers"
Katharine Susannah Prichard
I don't think I am vain, if I say to myself even that laugh was uttered to pique me.
"One Maid's Mischief"
George Manville Fenn