lucubration

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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

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

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

Mr Hobhouse, in his Illustrations of Childe Harold626, says, that the whole lucubration, extending to nearly 300 pages of large octavo, is a grave and continued irony on the verbal criticisms of commentators.

From History of Roman Literature from its Earliest Period to the Augustan Age. Volume II by Dunlop, John

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