lucubration

Example Sentences

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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

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

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

In 1845 his famous poem, The Raven, came out, and in 1848 Eureka, a Prose Poem, a pseudo-scientific lucubration.

From A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature by Cousin, John W. (John William)

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