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He was no student; his reading was confined to elementary textbooks and the daily papers; he did not even fly as high as cyclopedias; life, he would say, was his volume.

From The Wrong Box by Stevenson, Robert Louis

The reviving interest in letters is indicated by the founding of universities in Italy and France, by the publication of cyclopedias and other educational treatises.

From Wagner's "Tristan und Isolde"; an essay on the Wagnerian drama by Hight, George Ainslie

Knowledge he had kidnapped from cyclopedias and handbooks of useful information; but as for wisdom, when she passed he was left sniffling in the road without so much as the number of her motor car.

From Strictly business: more stories of the four million by Henry, O.

If the reader desires to make a careful study of storage and storage structures, he should consult cyclopedias and special articles.

From Manual of Gardening (Second Edition) by Bailey, L. H. (Liberty Hyde)

The cyclopedias also present numerous examples of coincidences as well as variations—some of the incorrect details being repeated almost verbatim, as though successive compilers had copied over and over the mistakes of their superficial predecessors.

From Tennyson's Life and Poetry And Mistakes Concerning Tennyson by Parsons, Eugene