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He respected the power of nature and fortune, and ascribed to it his superiority, instead of valuing himself, like inferior men, on his opinionativeness, and waging war with nature.

Representative Men 2006

The many of her nominal friends and admirers who at heart dislike her, prophesy that in a few years she will be coarse, and say that she is already too masculine; but the few who love her, think that she will improve both in person and mind, as she rubs off the pride and self-opinionativeness of twenty years of country life against the wholesome iron of society and the world.

Gladys, the Reaper Anne Beale

THEODOTUS (in a squeak which he makes impressive by sheer self-opinionativeness).

Caesar and Cleopatra George Bernard Shaw 1903

Loose but a moment the silken leash that holds them captive through their vanity and self-opinionativeness, and the son-of-a-gun gets on his ear at once.

Rolling Stones O. Henry 1886

None can quote Abraham Lincoln in justification of boorishness, of illiterateness, of opinionativeness, of uppishness, as prerogatives of a self-made man; nor can his name and life be used as in any sense an argument against that culture of society and of the schools of which he scarcely knew, until he had attained his majority.

Abraham Lincoln; His Life and Its Lessons 1865

Rupert was only three-and-twenty, and his education in the wild school of the Thirty Years 'War had not taught him to lay aside his arrogance and opinionativeness; indeed, he had shown great petulance at receiving orders from the King through Lord Falkland.

A Book of Golden Deeds 1864

As I now close this long labor and send forth the result, the oppressive sense of responsibility which fills me is relieved by the consciousness that I have herein written nothing as a bigoted partisan, nothing in a petty spirit of opinionativeness, but have intended every thought for the furtherance of truth, the honor of

The Destiny of the Soul A Critical History of the Doctrine of a Future Life William Rounseville Alger 1863

Rupert was only three-and - twenty, and his education in the wild school of the Thirty Years 'War had not taught him to lay aside his arrogance and opinionativeness; indeed, he had shown great petulance at receiving orders from the King through Lord Falkland.

A Book of Golden Deeds Charlotte Mary Yonge 1862

Grey was after all carried off without dancing with the hero; and Rachel felt as if her own opinionativeness had defrauded the poor girl.

Clever Woman of the Family Charlotte Mary Yonge 1862

It creates, as we have seen, an excessive self-conceit and opinionativeness, and then it directs these qualities to very small ends indeed.

Modern Women and What is Said of Them A Reprint of A Series of Articles in the Saturday Review (1868) Lucia Gilbert [Commentator] Calhoun 1860