lucubration

• He begged leave to explain At this point our reporter fell asleep The laughter which greeted the reading of this extract was by no means shared by the Sixth Form boys present, who, had the next selection been in a similar strain, would have quitted the scene and taken their chance of satisfying their curiosity as to the rest of the contents of the paper at a more convenient season But the next lucubration was the unfortunate Stephen's examination paper, with the answers thereto embellished, and in many cases bodily supplied, by the fertile Anthony. —  The Fifth Form at Saint Dominic's A School Story
• Sometimes, before going out to dinner, Jansoulet, on going up to his wife's room, would find her smoking in her easy-chair, with her head thrown back and piles of manuscript by her side, and Cabassu, armed with a blue pencil, reading in his hoarse voice and with his Bourg-Saint-Andιol intonation some dramatic lucubration which he cut and slashed remorselessly at the slightest word of criticism from the lady. —  The Nabob, Volume 1 (of 2)
• The title of this once-considered lucubration is far too suggestive to carping minds of more than the much that it means, to be without objection: nevertheless, I did begin, and therefore, always under shelter of a domino, and protesting against any who would move my mask, I confess to WOMAN, A SUBJECT it was a mere speculative argument; a flock of fancies now roaming unregarded in some cloudy limbo. —  An Author's Mind : The Book of Title-pages
• Indeed, in one instance he almost re-writes an entire poem in consequence of the manuscript having reached him in a mutilated condition A pleasant land is the land of dreams At the back of the shining air It hath sunnier skies and sheenier streams And gardens than Earth's more fair is the first verse of this lucubration, and Mr. Sladen informs us with justifiable pride that the parts printed in italics are from his own pen! —  Reviews
• When I see that lucubration: —  Tobogganing on Parnassus

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