book-learned
Example Sentences
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For why should a blockhead have one in ten For prating so long like a book-learned sot Till pudding and dumpling burn to a pot?
From Time Magazine Archive
Not content with book-learned appreciation of foreign affairs, students will go abroad in their upperclass summer vacations to study and observe while living in "homes where only the foreign language is spoken."
From Time Magazine Archive
I wish I was more book-learned for your sake, old fellow.
From The Bushranger's Secret by Mrs. Henry Clarke
Forth went the earls, forth went the lords, forth went the bishops, and the book-learned men, forth went the thanes, forth went the swains, all the Britons, until they came to London.
From Brut by Eugene Mason
It is time that the imitative and book-learned systems of the latter should be superseded or liberalized, by some plan better calculated to excite originality of thought and the native energies of the mind.
From Brook Farm Historic and Personal Memoirs by John Thomas Codman
