book-learned
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For why should a blockhead have one in ten For prating so long like a book-learned sot Till pudding and dumpling burn to a pot?
From Time Magazine Archive
Not content with book-learned appreciation of foreign affairs, students will go abroad in their upperclass summer vacations to study and observe while living in "homes where only the foreign language is spoken."
From Time Magazine Archive
“Wha’ should he be, but some silly, book-learned body that bides in a college there awa’.
From Janet's Love and Service by Robertson, Margaret M. (Margaret Murray)
I wish I was more book-learned for your sake, old fellow.
From The Bushranger's Secret by Clarke, Henry, Mrs.
Oh, I know it’s not evidence, Mr. Utterson; I’m book-learned enough for that; but a man has his feelings, and I give you my Bible-word it was Mr. Hyde!”
From The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 5 (of 25) by Stevenson, Robert Louis
