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
“Wha’ should he be, but some silly, book-learned body that bides in a college there awa’.
From Janet's Love and Service by Robertson, Margaret M. (Margaret Murray)
And Tommy’s face displayed such eminent satisfaction that Wade had not the heart to destroy the man’s belief that his book-learned boss had adopted a part of the woods creed of the supernatural.
From King Spruce, A Novel by Day, Holman
What Gilbert Stanning thought of it all is another matter; Joan with all her book-learned wisdom had not fathomed his character.
From To Love by Peterson, Margaret
