book-learned

Updated: May 4, 2025

I'm not a poet like you book-learned, you know; and she's too solemn by half, and grand. I wish she was different. That other girl, Rachel she's a devilish handsome craft. I wish almost she was not here at all, or I wish she was in Dorcas's shoes. 'Nonsense, Wylder! stop this stuff; and it is growing cold throw away that cigar, and come in. 'In a minute. No, I assure you, I'm not joking.

Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu - Wylder's Hand

"He is one of the few book-learned men I have ever known, who could apply science to the natural philosophy of the woods.

D. P. Thompson - Gaut Gurley