bibliomaniacal
Americanadjective
Example Sentences
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"Adieu," said Lysander, putting his562 hand out of the chaise—"remember, in defence of my bibliomaniacal gossipping, that Similis never knew happiness till he became acquainted with books."
From Bibliomania; or Book-Madness A Bibliographical Romance by Thomas Frognall Dibdin
Yes; we may now as well notice the efforts of that extraordinary bibliomaniacal triumvirate, Colet, More, and Erasmus.
From Bibliomania; or Book-Madness A Bibliographical Romance by Thomas Frognall Dibdin
From this will, as Herbert has copied it, the reader is presented with the following strong proofs of the bibliomaniacal "ruling passion, strong in death," of our illustrious antiquary.
From Bibliomania; or Book-Madness A Bibliographical Romance by Thomas Frognall Dibdin
The very question I was about to put to our548 bibliomaniacal physician.
From Bibliomania; or Book-Madness A Bibliographical Romance by Thomas Frognall Dibdin
Each volume is preserved in a silken cover—and the whole is kept inviolate from the impurities of bibliomaniacal miasmata, in a sarcophagus-shaped piece of furniture of cedar and mahogany.
From Bibliomania; or Book-Madness A Bibliographical Romance by Thomas Frognall Dibdin
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