lucubration

Example Sentences

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In my last lucubration I proposed the general use of water gruel, and hinted that it might not be amiss at this very season.

From Isaac Bickerstaff, physician and astrologer by Steele, Richard, Sir

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

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

He spoke some French, perhaps also Italian; and if he had been at a University, which did not frequently happen, he might be able to recite a Latin lucubration.

From Pictures of German Life in the XVIIIth and XIXth Centuries, Vol. I. by Freytag, Gustav

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