lucubration
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But the next lucubration was the unfortunate Stephen’s examination paper, with the answers thereto embellished, and in many cases bodily supplied, by the fertile Anthony.
From The Fifth Form at Saint Dominic's A School Story by Talbot Baines Reed
How was it that the capitalist had put his signature to such a lucubration?
From Sentimental Education, Volume II The History of a Young Man by Gustave Flaubert
Mr. Charming is a boon, and we would not have missed his lucubration on any account.
From Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 12, No. 33, December, 1873 by Various
Love, war, a tempest—surely there 's variety; Also a seasoning slight of lucubration; A bird's-eye view, too, of that wild, Society; A slight glance thrown on men of every station.
From Don Juan by George Gordon Byron, Baron Byron
My Essay on Roads, quoth MacAdam, lies there, The result of a life's lucubration; But does not the title page look rather bare?
From Notes and Queries, Number 210, November 5, 1853 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc. by George Bell
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