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• I know I loue in vaine, striue against hope: / Yet in this captious, and intemible Siue / I still poure in the waters of my loue / And lacke not to loose still.
• A captious question, sir, and yours is one, / Deserves an answer similar, or none.
• Were you aware that in your discourse last Sunday you attributed the captious Problem of the Sadducees to the Pharisees, as a proof of the obscure and sensual doctrines of the latter?
• But Peter Petrovich did not accept this retort. On the contrary, he became all the more captious and irritable, as though he were just hitting his stride.
• The "Our Bold" column, nitpicking at errors in other periodicals, can look merely captious, and its critics often seem to be wildly and collectively wrong-headed.