lucubration

Example Sentences

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In other cases, where the personal history of a well-known book seems worth detaching from our critical estimate of it, that shall be the subject of my lucubration.

From Gossip in a Library by Gosse, Edmund

The "gentlemen of the police and the gendarmerie" shrugged their shoulders and paid no attention to this lucubration.

From The Confessions of Arsène Lupin by Leblanc, Maurice

We may be sure that a pen so abundant and so skilfully exercised was not one to have restricted itself to this solitary lucubration of his life and studies.

From Amenities of Literature Consisting of Sketches and Characters of English Literature by Disraeli, Isaac

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 Flaubert, Gustave

It is always possible—to the wise man—to refrain from reading the lucubration of the former, but he cannot avoid the latter: which brings me to the main subject of this paper—the Critic on the Hearth.

From Some Private Views by Payn, James