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
But when he saw she was book-learned, Fast to his horse hied he....’
From Ballads of Mystery and Miracle and Fyttes of Mirth Popular Ballads of the Olden Times - Second Series by Sidgwick, Frank
I’ve heard book-learned gentlemen say that the birds almost always fly in a line, directly north and south, influenced, no doubt, by the magnetic current which flows forever and ever in that direction.
From Seven Frozen Sailors by Fenn, George Manville
Because the things that he fancies he’s going to see don’t really exist, nor never yet did in spite of what book-learned people may say!
From Tom Finch's Monkey and How he Dined with the Admiral by Anonymous
