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John Adams diary 34, 5 -- 26 October 1782 1961

His lightest and most hastily formed opinions began to be of momentous importance to him, and he inflicted them, as I have already shown, on his old friends, week by week becoming more and more _entete_ with himself and his own crotchets.

The Way of All Flesh Samuel Butler 1868

I am much _entete_ at present about one Matthews, {122} a preacher at Bedford, who would do very well for Manchester in opposition to

Letters of Edward FitzGerald in two volumes, Vol. 1 Edward FitzGerald 1846

If this boy is like others of his family, the more we oppose him, the more entete he will be; and we shall never get him out of his scrape.”

The Virginians 2006

A pause; then with a new, yet still subdued inflexion of the voice — an inflexion which provoked while it pleased me — accompanied, too, by a “sourire a la fois fin et timide” in perfect harmony with the tone: — “C’est a dire, monsieur sera toujours un peu entete exigeant, volontaire —?”

The Professor, by Charlotte Bronte 2006

If this boy is like others of his family, the more we oppose him, the more entete he will be; and we shall never get him out of his scrape. "

The Virginians William Makepeace Thackeray 1837