lucubration
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But the next lucubration was the unfortunate Stephen’s examination paper, with the answers thereto embellished, and in many cases bodily supplied, by the fertile Anthony.
From The Fifth Form at Saint Dominic's A School Story by Talbot Baines Reed
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
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
The "gentlemen of the police and the gendarmerie" shrugged their shoulders and paid no attention to this lucubration.
From The Confessions of Arsène Lupin by Maurice Leblanc
In my last lucubration I proposed the general use of water gruel, and hinted that it might not be amiss at this very season.
From Isaac Bickerstaff, physician and astrologer by Sir Richard Steele
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