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British Isles
Sabtu, 2026-06-06 11:54:27

appeared the (East) 'Atlantic Archipelago' will have any appeal beyond captious scholars. "Guardian Style Guide", The Guardian, London, 19 December 2008...

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Ahaetulla nasuta
Jumat, 2026-04-17 03:09:21

horizontal shape of their pupils resembling a person narrowing their eyes in a captious expression. Due to longstanding confusion over the taxonomy of A. nasuta...

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Indo-European vocabulary
Senin, 2026-05-11 20:45:26

; mora "delay, any duration of time" ⇒ mérmeros "baneful, mischievous; captious, fastidious"; mérimna "care, thought; anxious mind"; mártus, márturos "witness"...

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Show Boat (1936 film)
Selasa, 2026-05-26 08:48:38

was "perhaps the single song-production highlight, although some may be captious a bit over the camera angles illustrating 'totin' the bales' and 'landing...

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Unigenitus
Kamis, 2026-05-21 21:04:28

France. Unigenitus censured 101 propositions of Pasquier Quesnel as: false, captious, ill-sounding, offensive to pious ears, scandalous, pernicious, rash, injurious...

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Winthrop Rockefeller
Kamis, 2026-05-28 02:39:41

party but to Rockefeller personally. In rapid succession, Mr. Rockefeller captiously took over most of the functions of the state chairman and in a matter...

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Taken at the Flood
Senin, 2026-05-18 08:21:28

at The Stag who stays for a month each year. She is old-fashioned and captious. Robert Underhay: Previous husband of Rosaleen Cloade. Said to have died...

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Elvana Gjata
Jumat, 2026-02-13 01:25:38

Balkans. Several observers have commended her fashion style for its captiousness and versatility describing her as an icon of fashion. Gjata's music has...

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The Bells of St. Mary's
Rabu, 2026-04-01 22:45:23

Everything, of course, turns out quite happily, except, perhaps, for those captious souls who regard religion as an adult matter." The Bells of St. Mary's...

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Glossary of nautical terms (M–Z)
Senin, 2026-06-08 02:09:39

wooden box used to store a sailor's effects. sea lawyer an argumentative, captious sailor. sea shanty/chanty/chantey Work song to accompany rhythmical labor...

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Hay Fever (play)
Jumat, 2026-06-05 13:53:15

1925, p. 360 "At The Ambassadors", The Tatler, 1 July 1925, p. 20 "Our Captious Critic", Illustrated Sporting and Dramatic News, 11 July 1925, p. 86 Mander...

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John Singleton Copley
Kamis, 2026-06-04 14:20:42

was made in company of an artist named George Carter, described as "a captious, cross-grained and self conceited person who kept a regular journal of...

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The Dunciad
Minggu, 2026-05-10 04:11:42

And Noise, and Norton, Brangling, and Breval, Dennis and Dissonance; and captious Art, And Snip-snap short, and Interruption smart. "Hold (cry'd the Queen)...

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Employment discrimination
Senin, 2026-06-08 20:25:03

(3.2 to 4.1 on a scale from 1 to 5,) but also the viewers inserted more captious grammar and spelling errors significantly when they believed the writer...

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Barber coinage
Minggu, 2025-11-16 04:49:21

(Bosbyshell was traveling) stating that Barber "disclaims any intention to be captious and certainly did not intend to question your prerogative as one of the...

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Adoptive Couple v. Baby Girl
Sabtu, 2026-05-02 09:55:00

incorrect and false information that favorably portrayed the Capobiancos and captiously characterized Brown.[by whom?][citation needed] Terry Cross of the National...

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Photo Kano
Minggu, 2026-05-24 05:33:08

student with a rather stern personality, earning her the reputation as the "Captious Student Council President". Her grades are outstanding, the best Kouga...

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Names of the British Isles
Kamis, 2026-06-04 23:59:59

appeared the (East) 'Atlantic Archipelago' will have any appeal beyond captious scholars. Studies in Historical Archaeoethnology by Judith Jesch 2003 Myers...

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Bhimsen Thapa
Selasa, 2026-04-21 05:34:36

these circumstances have combined to render Bhim Sen of late provokingly captious and suspicious towards us; lest, I suppose, the Raja should perchance to...

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Jack Hulbert
Sabtu, 2026-05-16 02:37:10

PLAYHOUSES. SEE-SAW." in Illustrated London News, 23 December 1916, p. 19 "OUR CAPTIOUS CRITIC: BUBBLY, AT THE COMEDY THEATRE" in Illustrated Sporting and Dramatic...

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List of Latin verbs with English derivatives
Sabtu, 2026-01-24 18:12:50

capacitance, capacitate, capacity, capistrate, capstan, captation, caption, captious, captivate, captivation, captive, captivity, captor, capture, case, catch...

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Theological censure
Minggu, 2026-01-11 21:30:16

worded so as to present two or more senses, one of which is objectionable; captious (captiosa) when acceptable words are made to express objectionable thoughts;...

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The Bath Unmasked
Senin, 2026-01-19 16:59:41

Anthony Boheme as Wiseman, John Egleton as Pander, John Hippisley as Sir Captious, Richard Diggs as Sharper, Jane Egleton as Lady Ambsace, Jane Rogers as...

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The Isis Magazine
Rabu, 2026-06-03 16:37:19

endeavour to be humorous without being ill-humoured, critical without being captious, militant without being malevolent, independent without being impertinent...

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The Family (sketch)
Rabu, 2026-02-25 23:40:11

however, her commentary in "The Family" sketches is limited to constant captious complaints, belligerent remarks that instigate the other characters, and...

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George Forbes (New Zealand politician)
Minggu, 2026-06-07 05:30:24

Post. Vol. CXXII, no. 107. 2 November 1936. p. 10 – via PapersPast. "NO CAPTIOUS CRITICISM". Northern Advocate. 5 December 1935. p. 5 – via PapersPast....

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List of English words of French origin (A–C)
Rabu, 2026-04-29 23:27:02

from Old Provençal cabestan capsule captain Old Fr. capitaine caption captious capture car Old N. Fr. carre, from Latin carrus, from Gaulish karros carabineer...

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Clark Ashton Smith bibliography
Minggu, 2026-02-15 21:16:58

potent, honey-like or nauseous, quick or languid, corrosive and deadly, or captious and deceptive and narcotic. There… [241] The Mortuary 1971 The Mortuary...

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George Pitt-Rivers
Sabtu, 2026-05-16 00:38:50

published Weeds in the Garden of Marriage: The Ethics of Race and Our Captious Critics that attacked the institution of marriage in modern Britain from...

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Mostyn Pigott
Minggu, 2024-03-17 23:03:28

endeavour to be humorous without being ill-humoured, critical without being captious, militant without being malevolent, independent without being impertinent...

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Historical revision of the Inquisition
Sabtu, 2026-05-23 04:33:25

Irreligious sentiments, drunken mockery, anticlerical expressions, were all captiously classified by the inquisitors (or by those who denounced the cases) as...

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Jeremiah (III)
Jumat, 2026-04-03 23:08:30

in his anxiety to acquire knowledge and accuracy he developed extreme captiousness. He frequently provoked the laughter of the academy, except of his teacher;...

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Morris Bishop
Kamis, 2026-05-14 12:01:54

style is vividly evocative. . . . [His] account is more than even the most captious reader could ask." The first part of the work was reissued in 1967 as Early...

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Strip! Strip! Hooray!!!
Rabu, 2026-04-22 15:47:24

musical comedy vein, its appeal is to lighter-hearted patrons of not too captious a calibre." "Strip! Strip! Hooray!!!". British Film Institute Collections...

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Fred M. White
Sabtu, 2026-03-21 20:56:28

Killed James Trent The Woman And Her Way The Courage Of Despair (1910?) A Captious Critic (May 1895?) RGLibrary Bibliography "A Bibliography© by Roy Glashan"...

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Alogi
Minggu, 2026-05-31 05:39:52

indicates that, "The objections of Caius are . . . those of a somewhat captious critic, and indicates little breadth of scriptural learning or of eschatological...

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Melchior d'Hondecoeter
Rabu, 2025-05-21 22:59:47

had two children, baptized in 1666 and 1668. She is said to have been captious, and had her sisters living in the house. According to Houbraken, Hondecoeter...

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Ethel Levey
Minggu, 2025-06-22 23:48:02

New Piece, 'Nearly a Hero'", Theatre Magazine (April 1908), p. 91 "Our Captious Critic", The Illustrated Sporting and Dramatic News (August 5, 1916), p...

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Eudoxius of Antioch
Rabu, 2026-06-03 05:16:44

says Socrates of Constantinople, these tore the church to pieces by their captious subtilties. Eudoxius consecrated his friend Eunomius to the see of Cyzicus...

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Taboo (book)
Kamis, 2026-01-29 14:05:53

times to the point of obscurity, and the critical mood is predominantly captious’, but affirmed that, ‘(n)evertheless, these lectures are of a high intellectual...

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Twain–Ament indemnities controversy
Kamis, 2026-05-14 08:12:13

gratification to many whose sense of justice has been outraged by the captious criticisms of those with neither knowledge nor candour to comprehend existing...

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Martín de Murúa
Rabu, 2026-05-06 20:25:23

Martín de Murúa, elector genl. del orden de nra. Sa de las mds. Rra de captious, comor y cura de Hunata. The first book is divided into 92 chapters and...

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Cornelius de Vos
Minggu, 2026-06-07 10:10:33

witnessed the 1568 contract. He described the terms of his contract as "captious and doubtful in many points and nothing to the king's profit". Soon after...

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Martha Blount
Sabtu, 2026-04-11 20:05:52

his legs, and sat still; but Lord Marchmont, who was younger and less captious, waited on the Lady; who, when he came to her, asked, What, is he not dead...

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Giovanni Martinelli (painter)
Selasa, 2026-01-06 12:24:37

practised by the local Academies, he owned a remarkable skill in rendering a captious symbolism in his figures. His allegorical works are of rare elegance and...

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Pollutant-induced abnormal behaviour
Selasa, 2026-02-10 02:01:33

behaviour has been observed in multiple taxa. Female crickets were less captious of males when they were raised in bright artificial light. Male crickets...

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The Spirit of the Age
Kamis, 2026-06-04 06:05:08

liberal, nothing humane in this style of judging; it is altogether petty, captious, and literal." With all this, he is retrograde and "would go back to the...

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Edith Pechey
Selasa, 2026-02-17 12:03:40

of the pale of competition because they do so, is, indeed, too like the captious schoolmaster who first sent a boy into the corner and then whipped him...

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The Life Story of John Lee, or The Man They Could Not Hang (1921 film)
Sabtu, 2026-02-21 05:34:58

interest in the theme to assure for it a wide measure of patronage. The captious critic, reviewing the film from the angle of what is anticipated in a production...

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Mary C. F. Hall-Wood
Minggu, 2026-03-15 13:02:43

shows unusual skill in the command of various meters and it will be a captious reader who cannot find something here to his taste." Hall-Wood had been...

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Lisa Corinne Davis
Selasa, 2026-05-26 18:09:20

schemas and intentionally elusive titles (Registered Impersonation, 2020; Captious Computation, 2019) summoned a range of contradictory associations—natural...

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Morgan the Pirate (song)
Minggu, 2025-12-28 22:54:59

Richard Farina. p. 296. ...including Richard's "Farewell to Bob Dylan", the captious "Morgan the Pirate"... Leigh, Spencer (24 May 2020). Bob Dylan: Outlaw...

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Minnie Byron
Kamis, 2026-05-14 12:01:47

Illustrated Sporting and Dramatic News. p. 20. Anon (20 November 1880). "Our Captious Critic". Illustrated London News Group. Illustrated Sporting and Dramatic...

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Bendigo Cup
Kamis, 2026-03-05 14:06:52

2011 – Tanby 2010 – Dream Pedlar 2009 – Zupacool 2008 – Banana Man 2007 – Captious 2006 – Gallic 2005 – True Courser 2004 – Gallic 2003 – Western Waters 2002...

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Frank Wyatt
Minggu, 2025-08-31 18:46:09

Nevill Gunning, Ancestry.com The Times obituary, 6 October 1926, p. 14 "Our Captious Critic", The Illustrated Sporting and Dramatic News, 19 July 1879, p. 441...

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William Clagett (controversialist)
Kamis, 2024-07-18 18:43:26

Ward. Notion of Idolatry considered and confuted, London, 1688. Several captious Queries concerning the English Reformation, first proposed by Dean Manby...

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Charles Garvice
Jumat, 2026-05-22 20:26:26

possibility of the permanence of his literary reputation. His answer to a captious friend who seemed solicitous to disabuse him on this score was merely to...

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Manning Clark's History of Australia – The Musical
Kamis, 2026-01-29 05:43:09

imagination". Playwright Jack Hibberd called Radic's review "disrespectful, captious and harsh" and "choked with terrible misjudgements". "One Story" "We Are...

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Henry Clay Ide
Senin, 2026-04-27 13:14:52

the talent to make these gifts recognized and appreciated among our very captious population. For my part, I always thought your presence the best thing...

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The Prince and the Beggar Maid (play)
Senin, 2026-01-19 17:10:41

United Kingdom with his own company in which he played Prince Olaf. Our Captious Critic: The Prince and the Beggar Maid at the Lyceum Theatre. The Illustrated...

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Gaiety George
Jumat, 2026-02-20 10:11:24

interesting us very much in his characters with, perhaps, the exception of a captious newspaper critic, played by Peter Graves. ... Ann Todd is not at all well...

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Peter Browne (theologian)
Selasa, 2026-03-24 12:04:09

and Limits of the Human Understanding (1728), an able though sometimes captious critique of Locke's essay, and Things Divine and Supernatural conceived...

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Essays in London and Elsewhere
Jumat, 2025-08-22 19:38:43

faults or omissions in the writers he discusses. But his criticism is never captious, never a wish that a writer was somebody he is not. The essay on Ibsen...

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United States v. Wunderlich
Senin, 2026-04-27 15:27:01

conduct is plainly out of bounds, whether he is fraudulent, perverse, captious, incompetent, or just palpably wrong. Justice Jackson, dissented on the...

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