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
What Gilbert Stanning thought of it all is another matter; Joan with all her book-learned wisdom had not fathomed his character.
From To Love by Margaret Peterson
But then it will require the experience to give your book-learned wisdom its full force.
From The Bright Face of Danger Being an Account of Some Adventures of Henri de Launay, Son of the Sieur de la Tournoire by Robert Neilson Stephens
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 David Christie Murray
