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His humour of sententiousness and doctorial stilts is a mask he delights in, but you ought to know him and not be frightened by it.

From The Egoist by Meredith, George

And now that you know how happily circumstanced I am as to environment your doctorial demand is for something as to the behavior of the organs and nerves which we call the physical man.

From Letters of Franklin K. Lane by Wall, Louise Herrick

One thing, at any rate, I have     already done in my doctorial capacity—secured you a bedroom on the     ground-floor, so that you will not need to ascend the stairs at all.

From Sylvie and Bruno by Carroll, Lewis

And there, standing by the place of pleading, with his foot on the first step, I saw Dessauer, in his black doctorial gown, leaning reverently upon a long staff.

From Red Axe by Crockett, S. R. (Samuel Rutherford)

He treats nature as the old philosophers, as the seven wise masters did,—and, with whatever loss of French tabulation and dissection, poetry and humanity remain to us; and they have some doctorial skill.

From Representative Men by Emerson, Ralph Waldo