| 1. | Yet in this captious and intenible siev. - from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare |
| 2. | Georgiana, who had a spoiled temper, a very acrid spite, a captious and insolent carriage, was universally indulged. - from Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte |
| 3. | The consciousness of having done amiss, had exposed her to a thousand inquietudes, and made her captious and irritable to a degree that must have been--that had been--hard for him to bear. - from Emma by Jane Austen |