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"They made a great pet of the creature—naturally, it was called Fiddle. Though it remained bad-tempered, captious, and unfriendly, it never went short of food."
-- Diana Wynne Jones, Charmed Life, in The Chronicles of Chrestomanci (p 16)
"He grew by degrees less civil, put on more of the Master, frequently found fault, was captious and seem'd ready for an Out-breaking." - Benjamin Franklin, The Autobiography of B.F. (New Haven & London: Yale University Press, 2003), p. 110.
"… our amour propre is so excessively sensitive, and so captious, that it is almost impossible that one word said about us in our absence, if it is faithfully reported to us, should not seem to us unworthy or hardly worthy of us, and not sting us." – Giacomo Leopardi, Thoughts, tr. J. G. Nichols (London: Hesperus, 2002), p. 33 (#41).