lucubration
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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
In China, they were taken as announcements that Japan has about completed its plans for the absorption of China, and that the lucubration preliminary to operations of swallowing are about to begin.
From China, Japan and the U.S.A. Present-Day Conditions in the Far East and Their Bearing on the Washington Conference by Dewey, John
Mr. Bambridge made considerable alterations in his cherished lucubration; and when the advertisement appeared in print, it looked mean and filled but a paltry space.
From Children of the Mist by Phillpotts, Eden
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
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 Leblanc, Maurice
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