book-learned
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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
Young Walshingham did his best with epigrams and reservations, but even to Kipps it was evident that this was a book-learned depravity.
From Kipps The Story of a Simple Soul by Wells, H. G. (Herbert George)
"It is well attested, comrades," said the book-learned Fynbo; and the greater number were pacified: still, a few solitary murmurs were heard.
From The Childhood of King Erik Menved An Historical Romance by Ingemann, Bernhard Severin
The great poet was no mere book-learned speculator.
From Aphorisms and Reflections from the Works of T. H. Huxley by Huxley, T. H.
