book-taught

They are book-taught ill manners. baith auld and young yonder

Lass of Glenshee (3) 1997

And having done that, I thought I'd best turn to and make a book of my own, lest book-taught slovens should garble me when I'm dead.

The Praise Singer Renault, Mary 1978

I ain't going to let no book-taught medico worry me yet!

Then I'll Come Back to You Larry Evans

One does not like to speak of them, particularly to those who do not and can not know -- to good women in whose innocent minds female immorality is inseparable from flashy gowning and the painted face; to foolish, book-taught men who honestly believe in some protective sanctity that hedges womanhood.

A Cynic Looks at Life Ambrose Bierce 1878

One does not like to speak of them, particularly to those who do not and can not know -- to good women in whose innocent minds female immorality is inseparable from flashy gowning and the painted face; to foolish, book-taught men who honestly believe in some protective sanctity that hedges womanhood.

The Shadow On The Dial, and Other Essays 1909 Ambrose Bierce 1878

This book-taught man, to man's first foe profess'd

The Borough George Crabbe 1793

This book-taught man, to man's first foe profess'd

The Borough George Crabbe 1793

This book-taught man, to man's first foe profess'd

The Borough George Crabbe 1793