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 The Note-Books of Samuel Butler 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

But the next lucubration was the unfortunate Stephen’s examination paper, with the answers thereto embellished, and in many cases bodily supplied, by the fertile Anthony.

From The Fifth Form at Saint Dominic's A School Story by Reed, Talbot Baines

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 Flaubert, Gustave