Four days after this learned 'lucubration' the voice of the warm-hearted magistrate speaks in a reminder of the prevailing abject misery of the London poor who “in the most miserable lingering Manner do daily perish for Want in this Metropolis.”. From Wordnik.com. [Henry Fielding A Memoir]
In this lucubration the Man in the Moon shows the Man of the. From Wordnik.com. [Moon Lore] Reference
Mr. Charming is a boon, and we would not have missed his lucubration on any account. From Wordnik.com. [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 12, No. 33, December, 1873] Reference
I would like to have a meditation, a rumination, a lucubration, a bombination, about the prostate. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2008-12-01] Reference
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 Wordnik.com. [The Ontario Readers: The High School Reader, 1886] Reference
Raven, came out, and in 1848 Eureka, a Prose Poem, a pseudo-scientific lucubration. From Wordnik.com. [A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature] Reference
The "gentlemen of the police and the gendarmerie" shrugged their shoulders and paid no attention to this lucubration. From Wordnik.com. [The Confessions of Arsène Lupin] Reference
It was the well-earned harvest of many a learned conference, of many a patient lecture, and many a midnight lucubration. From Wordnik.com. [History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire — Volume 1] Reference
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 Wordnik.com. [Isaac Bickerstaff, physician and astrologer] Reference
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 Wordnik.com. [The Note-Books of Samuel Butler] Reference
In other cases, where the personal history of a well-known book seems worth detaching from our critical estimate of it, that shall be the subject of my lucubration. From Wordnik.com. [Gossip in a Library] Reference
But the next lucubration was the unfortunate Stephen's examination paper, with the answers thereto embellished, and in many cases bodily supplied, by the fertile Anthony. From Wordnik.com. [The Fifth Form at Saint Dominic's A School Story] Reference
I at the same time, without saying a word to Waterford or anybody except mother, had sat down and, with awful groanings and wrestlings of mind, evolved a lucubration in prose on ` Ancient and. From Wordnik.com. [Reginald Cruden A Tale of City Life] Reference
In China, they were taken as announcements that Japan has about completed its plans for the absorption of China, and that the lucubration preliminary to operations of swallowing are about to begin. From Wordnik.com. [China, Japan and the U.S.A. Present-Day Conditions in the Far East and Their Bearing on the Washington Conference] Reference
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 Wordnik.com. [Some Private Views] Reference
I would have written some, however, had I not supposed that you would probably accept the appointment tendered you in the army, & my lucubration might never reach you, a loss to humanity that could not be thought of. From Wordnik.com. [Lenoir Family. Lenoir Family Papers. Personal Correspondence, 1861-1865.] Reference
Cabassu, armed with a blue pencil, reading in his hoarse voice and with his Bourg-Saint-Andéol intonation some dramatic lucubration which he cut and slashed remorselessly at the slightest word of criticism from the lady. From Wordnik.com. [The Nabob, Volume 1 (of 2)] Reference
Last week I wrote the most considerable lucubration of the winter, on the darkest problem in the philosophy of life and history, "the ministry of error and evil in the world," to wit, Polytheism, Despotism, War, and Slavery. From Wordnik.com. [Autobiography and Letters of Orville Dewey, D.D. Edited by his Daughter] Reference
As such, he was the recipient of lucubrations from countless cranks; but this particular lucubration was so different from the average ruck of similar letters that, instead of putting it into the waste-basket, he had turned it over to a reporter. From Wordnik.com. [Revolution, and Other Essays] Reference
As such, he was the recipient of lucubrations from countless cranks; but this particular lucubration was so different from the average ruck of similar letters that, instead of putting it into the waste basket, he had it turned over to a reporter. From Wordnik.com. [Goliah] Reference
But the truth showed itself in spite of all, and he cried out, with fury intensified by outrage: "In this infamous lucubration of French authors there is a court abbé, who, thanks to the unbounded licentiousness of his expressions, constitutes a direct insult to the clergy.". From Wordnik.com. [My Double Life The Memoirs of Sarah Bernhardt] Reference
Mr. Park Benjamin begins a lucubration upon it with these capitals, DICKENS IS A FOOL, AND A LIAR. From Wordnik.com. [The Life of Charles Dickens, Vol. I-III, Complete] Reference
'lucubration' the voice of the warm-hearted magistrate speaks in a reminder of the prevailing abject misery of the London poor who "in the most miserable lingering Manner do daily perish for Want in this. From Wordnik.com. [Henry Fielding: a Memoir] Reference
45 It was the well-earned harvest of many a learned conference, of many a patient lecture, and many a midnight lucubration. From Wordnik.com. [The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire] Reference
Hence my taste for reports and memoirs, and those notions of academic style of which traces will be found in many passages of this lucubration.). From Wordnik.com. [The Nabob, Volume 1 (of 2)] Reference
Hence my taste for reports and memoirs, and those ideas of academical style of which traces will be found in many passages of this lucubration.). From Wordnik.com. [The Nabob] Reference
When I see that lucubration. From Wordnik.com. [Tobogganing on Parnassus] Reference
The result of a life's lucubration. From Wordnik.com. [Notes and Queries, Number 210, November 5, 1853 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc.] Reference
429. complimen - tary visits, country complexions, Mr. Hopkins on Pope's Pastorals, 430. on an astronomical lucubration of Mr. Bowyer's, mathematicks and riddles in almanacks, 430, 431. notes on Pope's imitations of the Classics, variations in the Dunciad, &c. From Wordnik.com. [Literary anecdotes of the eighteenth century; comprizing biographical memoirs of William Bowyer, printer, F. S. A.] Reference
284.) who says, with justice, that a rich vein of humour and amusement runs through it, and that it is the apparent lucubration of a pen able to perform better things. From Wordnik.com. [Microcosmography or, a Piece of the World Discovered; in Essays and Characters] Reference
19. lucubration. From Wordnik.com. [A Spelling-Book for Advanced Classes] Reference
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