book-learned
Example Sentences
Examples are provided to illustrate real-world usage of words in context. Any opinions expressed do not reflect the views of Dictionary.com.
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
Thorolf.—I am not a book-learned man; yet must you, then, be exceedingly old and yet are not gray-haired.
From Sword and crozier, drama in five acts by Hollander, Lee Milton
I am not book-learned enough to know whether it be the same as Tusser's Five Hundred Poynts of Good Husbandry.
From Notes and Queries, Number 25, April 20, 1850 by Various
Well, Romeo takes a thought, an' goes to a friar, a kind o' priest, as was a very book-learned man, and asks if he can help him.
From Julia And Her Romeo: A Chronicle Of Castle Barfield From "Schwartz" by David Christie Murray by Murray, David Christie
