book-learned
Example Sentences
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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
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
Well, Romeo takes a thought, an' goes to a friar, a kind o' priest, as was a very book-learned man, and asks if he can help him.
From Julia And Her Romeo: A Chronicle Of Castle Barfield From "Schwartz" by David Christie Murray by Murray, David Christie
She is book-learned, and I am not; and she paints, and is a musician too and has all the accomplishments.
From Guy Rivers: A Tale of Georgia by Simms, William Gilmore
Of what use was her book-learned wisdom in the face of this, it vanished into thin air.
From To Love by Peterson, Margaret
