blue-stocking
Example Sentences
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"Behold me literally in love with this great horse-faced blue-stocking," Henry James wrote to his father.
From Time Magazine Archive
She wanted to be broad-minded if she could, for she was rather a blue-stocking.
From "The Once and Future King" by T. H. White
There was never lipstick to contrast with her straight black hair, while at the age of thirty-one her dresses showed all the imagination of English blue-stocking adolescents.
From "Double Helix" by James D. Watson
The mother was as little eccentric as is possible for a blue-stocking to be, and in the course of four hours had only two attacks of absence of mind, which does her honour.
From Erlach Court by Schubin, Ossip
Susanna Blecheisen, now Mrs. Harfink, usually called Madame von Harfink, was a famous blue-stocking.
From Felix Lanzberg's Expiation by Schubin, Ossip
