lucubration

Example Sentences

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It is always possible—to the wise man—to refrain from reading the lucubration of the former, but he cannot avoid the latter: which brings me to the main subject of this paper—the Critic on the Hearth.

From Some Private Views by Payn, James

This was the diagnosis she made of her discontent after an hour's melancholy lucubration over the restless tongues of flame, and their scarlet substratum.

From Jessamine A Novel by Harland, Marion

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

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 Don Juan by Byron, George Gordon Byron, Baron

It was the well-earned harvest of many a learned conference, of many a patient lecture, and many a midnight lucubration.

From History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire — Volume 1 by Milman, Henry Hart