hair-splitter
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"You are the hair-splitter this time," said he, ruefully.
From The Booming of Acre Hill And Other Reminiscences of Urban and Suburban Life by John Kendrick Bangs
Lion bearder, hair-splitter, cutter-of-his-own-throat, lover of a country lass.
From The Mighty Dead by William Campbell Gault
He isn't going to be the dead easy mark I hoped to find in the son of the old bankrupt hair-splitter, Genie, girl.
From The City of Numbered Days by Francis Lynde
His judges considered him as an unreasonable man, a gifted sophist fertile in inventing objections in and out of season, a hair-splitter perpetually arguing for argument's sake.
From Fray Luis de León A Biographical Fragment by James Fitzmaurice-Kelly
Evidently, coroner and doctor were inclined to be testy with each other, and the newspaper report left the impression that Dr. Scaife was a hair-splitter.
From The House 'Round the Corner by Louis Tracy
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