blue-stocking

Example Sentences

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"Behold me literally in love with this great horse-faced blue-stocking," Henry James wrote to his father.

From Time Magazine Archive

She wanted to be broad-minded if she could, for she was rather a blue-stocking.

From "The Once and Future King" by T. H. White

There was never lipstick to contrast with her straight black hair, while at the age of thirty-one her dresses showed all the imagination of English blue-stocking adolescents.

From "Double Helix" by James D. Watson

The famous blue-stocking, Mrs. Montagu, writes of the 'shady oaks and beautiful verdure of South Lodge.'

From Lord Chatham His Early Life and Connections by Rosebery, Archibald Phillip Primrose

"So you've chosen the blue-stocking, mother," said Dick.

From The Eldest Son by Marshall, Archibald