lucubration
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It was the well-earned harvest of many a learned conference, of many a patient lecture, and many a midnight lucubration.
From History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire — Volume 1 by Henry Hart Milman
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
It is always possible—to the wise man—to refrain from reading the lucubration of the former, but he cannot avoid the latter: which brings me to the main subject of this paper—the Critic on the Hearth.
From Some Private Views by James Payn
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 The Works of Lord Byron. Vol. 6 by Ernest Hartley Coleridge
We may be sure that a pen so abundant and so skilfully exercised was not one to have restricted itself to this solitary lucubration of his life and studies.
From Amenities of Literature Consisting of Sketches and Characters of English Literature by Isaac Disraeli
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