lucubration
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The real master of this art will show his skill by the great number of times in which he will manage to say "We" in the course of his lucubration.
From Punchinello, Volume 2, No. 32, November 5, 1870 by Various
In 1845 his famous poem, The Raven, came out, and in 1848 Eureka, a Prose Poem, a pseudo-scientific lucubration.
From A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature by Cousin, John W. (John William)
It was the well-earned harvest of many a learned conference, of many a patient lecture, and many a midnight lucubration.
From History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire — Volume 1 by Milman, Henry Hart
As a supporter of the last reign, he was dreading the vengeance of the people so far as concerned his estates in Champagne when Frederick's lucubration fell into his hands.
From Sentimental Education, Volume II The History of a Young Man by Flaubert, Gustave
It is always possible—to the wise man—to refrain from reading the lucubration of the former, but he cannot avoid the latter: which brings me to the main subject of this paper—the Critic on the Hearth.
From Some Private Views by Payn, James
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