lucubration

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"M. A.'s" lucubration did not obtain admittance into any other paper, but "Fair Play's" shone resplendently in the columns of the Illustrated London News.

From The Exploits and Triumphs, in Europe, of Paul Morphy, the Chess Champion by Edge, Frederick Milnes

In China, they were taken as announcements that Japan has about completed its plans for the absorption of China, and that the lucubration preliminary to operations of swallowing are about to begin.

From China, Japan and the U.S.A. Present-Day Conditions in the Far East and Their Bearing on the Washington Conference by Dewey, John

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

In 1845 his famous poem, The Raven, came out, and in 1848 Eureka, a Prose Poem, a pseudo-scientific lucubration.

From A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature by Cousin, John W. (John William)

The real master of this art will show his skill by the great number of times in which he will manage to say "We" in the course of his lucubration.

From Punchinello, Volume 2, No. 32, November 5, 1870 by Various