book-learned

Example Sentences

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Not content with book-learned appreciation of foreign affairs, students will go abroad in their upperclass summer vacations to study and observe while living in "homes where only the foreign language is spoken."

From Time Magazine Archive

For why should a blockhead have one in ten For prating so long like a book-learned sot Till pudding and dumpling burn to a pot?

From Time Magazine Archive

I know how old woodsmen look at book-learned chaps, Mr. Ide.

From King Spruce, A Novel by Day, Holman

I’ve heard book-learned gentlemen say that the birds almost always fly in a line, directly north and south, influenced, no doubt, by the magnetic current which flows forever and ever in that direction.

From Seven Frozen Sailors by Fenn, George Manville

Now, don't you git skeered, fer I'm not goin' to be foolish, an' I know I'm not book-learned an' refined, same ez your city gals.

From Frank Merriwell Down South by Standish, Burt L.