book-learned
Example Sentences
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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
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
I was trained in a different school, and my motto's good work for good wage; But the sweaters and spouters between 'em spoil that in this book-learned age.
From Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 146, March 4th 1914 by Various
Oh, I know it’s not evidence, Mr. Utterson; I’m book-learned enough for that; but a man has his feelings, and I give you my Bible-word it was Mr. Hyde!”
From The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 5 (of 25) by Stevenson, Robert Louis
She is book-learned, and I am not; and she paints, and is a musician too and has all the accomplishments.
From Guy Rivers: A Tale of Georgia by Simms, William Gilmore
