lucubration

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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

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

Swift chronologically precedes Sterne, for in 1726, shortly after "Robinson Crusoe" and a good fifteen years before "Pamela," he gave the world that unique lucubration, "Gulliver's Travels," allegory, satire and fairy story all in one.

From Masters of the English Novel A Study of Principles and Personalities by Burton, Richard

"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

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 Bell, George