lucubration
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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 George Gordon Byron, Baron Byron
But I am here running into shreds of maxims from reading Tacitus this morning, which has driven me from my recommendation of public spirit, which was the intended purpose of this lucubration.
From The Ontario Readers: The High School Reader, 1886 by Ontario. Ministry of Education
Swift chronologically precedes Sterne, for in 1726, shortly after "Robinson Crusoe" and a good fifteen years before "Pamela," he gave the world that unique lucubration, "Gulliver's Travels," allegory, satire and fairy story all in one.
From Masters of the English Novel A Study of Principles and Personalities by Richard Burton
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 Samuel Butler
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
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