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  • Isabel, the Isabel you describe, has too much to spare for Kendal -- Kendal being what he is; and one doesn't feel her, see her, enough, as the pushing actress, the _cabotine_!

    A Writer's Recollections — Volume 2 Humphry Ward 1885

  • She had had an idea that foreign actresses were rather of the _cabotin_ order, but her hostess suggested to her much more a princess than a _cabotine_.

    The Tragic Muse Henry James 1879

  • Rover was simply a rank _cabotine_, and that sort of association was an odd training for a young woman who was to have been good enough -- he couldn't forget that, but kept remembering it as if it might still have

    The Tragic Muse Henry James 1879

  • Isabel, the Isabel you describe, has too much to spare for Kendal ” Kendal being what he is; and one doesn't feel her, see her, enough, as the pushing actress, the cabotine!

    Writer's Recollections Ward, Mrs Humphry 1918

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