lucubration
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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
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
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
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
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 Burton, Richard