lucubration
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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 Samuel Butler
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 Some Private Views by James Payn
Mr. Bambridge made considerable alterations in his cherished lucubration; and when the advertisement appeared in print, it looked mean and filled but a paltry space.
From Children of the Mist by Eden Phillpotts
The real master of this art will show his skill by the great number of times in which he will manage to say "We" in the course of his lucubration.
From Punchinello, Volume 2, No. 32, November 5, 1870 by Various
As a supporter of the last reign, he was dreading the vengeance of the people so far as concerned his estates in Champagne when Frederick's lucubration fell into his hands.
From Sentimental Education, Volume II The History of a Young Man by Gustave Flaubert
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