Example Sentences

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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

He was, and is, a scholar—not merely book-learned, for he was one of the first three in a class of sixty in Saint Mary's Seminary, but the man of parts that bespeak the student.

From The Journal of Negro History, Volume 2, 1917 by Various

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

But when he saw she was book-learned, Fast to his horse hied he....’

From Ballads of Mystery and Miracle and Fyttes of Mirth Popular Ballads of the Olden Times - Second Series by Sidgwick, Frank