lucubration
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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
Even his outward manner of life, in its flesh-and-blood physiognomy,—we search in vain through tons of dusty lucubration totally without interest, to catch here and there the corner of a feature of it.
From History of Friedrich II of Prussia — Volume 08 by Carlyle, Thomas
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
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
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
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