lucubratory

Examples

• And by close application to my book at night, my visage became considerally emaciated by extreme perspiration, having no lucubratory aparatus, no candle, no lamp, nor even light-wood, being chiefly raised in oaky woods.

  The poetical works of George M. Horton : the colored bard of North Carolina : to which is prefixed the life of the author, written by himself,

• The water-bottle and the two tumblers, coupled with the absence of any mention of a decanter, are a striking proof of the abstemiousness of Auckland's Superintendents, while the six candle-sticks and the fourteen ink-bottles are silent witnesses to their lucubratory industry.

  'Historic Relics,' Auckland Star, February 28, 1878

• You that are so nice an admirer of beauty, or, as a critic would say, after Terence, so elegant a spectator of forms, you must have a sober dish of coffee, and a solitary candle at your side, to write an epistle lucubratory to your friend, whereas I can do it as well with two pair of radiant lights, that outshine the golden god of day, and silver goddess of night, with all the refulgent eyes of the firmament.

  The Works of Alexander Pope: Correspondence