blue-stocking

Example Sentences

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"Behold me literally in love with this great horse-faced blue-stocking," Henry James wrote to his father.

From Time Magazine Archive

She wanted to be broad-minded if she could, for she was rather a blue-stocking.

From "The Once and Future King" by T. H. White

There was never lipstick to contrast with her straight black hair, while at the age of thirty-one her dresses showed all the imagination of English blue-stocking adolescents.

From "Double Helix" by James D. Watson

Wearied out by his journey, the monk expired in the arms of the blue-stocking who had influenced his life for evil, and the young lady of so many aliases was for a while inconsolable.

From Curious Myths of the Middle Ages by Baring-Gould, S. (Sabine)

And my mother says, too, that you are growing quite a blue-stocking!

From A Charming Fellow, Volume II (of 3) by Trollope, Frances Eleanor