lucubration
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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 The Works of Lord Byron. Vol. 6 by Coleridge, Ernest Hartley
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
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
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
Even his outward manner of life, in its flesh-and-blood physiognomy,—we search in vain through tons of dusty lucubration totally without interest, to catch here and there the corner of a feature of it.
From History of Friedrich II of Prussia — Volume 08 by Carlyle, Thomas
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