lucubration

Example Sentences

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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

Mr. Charming is a boon, and we would not have missed his lucubration on any account.

From Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 12, No. 33, December, 1873 by Various

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 Gossip in a Library by Gosse, Edmund

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 Canterbury Pieces by Butler, Samuel

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