lucubration

Example Sentences

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But I am here running into shreds of maxims from reading Tacitus this morning, which has driven me from my recommendation of public spirit, which was the intended purpose of this lucubration.

From The Ontario Readers: The High School Reader, 1886 by Ontario. Ministry of Education

Some may see our lucubration as we saw it; and others may see nothing but a drunken dream, or the nightmare of a distempered imagination. 

From The Note-Books of Samuel Butler by Butler, Samuel

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

Some may see our lucubration as we saw it, and others may see nothing but a drunken dream or the nightmare of a distempered imagination.

From Canterbury Pieces by Butler, Samuel

Mr. Bambridge made considerable alterations in his cherished lucubration; and when the advertisement appeared in print, it looked mean and filled but a paltry space.

From Children of the Mist by Phillpotts, Eden