scholar-like

By a scholar-like comparison of these remains we should find little difficulty in establishing the true Greek pronunciation since the days of Alexander the Great; and we shall prove that it was pronounced according to accent and emphatically not quantity.

The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night 2006

Allow me thus publicly to express my admiration of your magnum opus, “The Book of the Thousand Nights and One Night;” and to offer you my cordial thanks for honouring me with the dedication of that scholar-like and admirable version.

The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night 2006

So I went on for some days cutting and hewing timber, and also studs and rafters, all with my narrow axe, not having many communicable or scholar-like thoughts, singing to myself,

Walden 2004

It requires a scholar-like knowledge of the tongue to apply the curious process correctly, and the self-sufficient critic should beware how he attempts to correct quotations from the native languages.

Two Trips to Gorilla Land and the Cataracts of the Congo 2003

There she beheld another countenance, of a man well stricken in years, a pale, thin, scholar-like visage, with eyes dim and bleared by the lamp-light that had served them to pore over many ponderous books.

The Scarlet Letter 2002

At first, his expression had been calm, meditative, scholar-like.

The Scarlet Letter 2002

The young divine, whose scholar-like renown still lived in Oxford, was considered by his more fervent admirers as little less than a heavenly ordained apostle, destined, should he live and labour for the ordinary term of life, to do as great deeds, for the now feeble

The Scarlet Letter 2002

Notwithstanding his high native gifts and scholar-like attainments, there was an air about this young minister — an apprehensive, a startled, a half-frightened look — as of a being who felt himself quite astray, and at a loss in the pathway of human existence, and could only be at ease in some seclusion of his own.

The Scarlet Letter 2002

I need scarcely say that the essay is nervous, forcible, suggestive, brilliant, and to a certain extent scholar-like -- for all that Miss Fuller produces is entitled to these epithets -- but I must say that the conclusions reached are only in part my own.

International Weekly Miscellany - Volume 1, No. 6, August 5, 1850 Various

It touches at one extreme the ripe fame of Munden (who died in '32) and -- freighted with all the rich traditions of the stage -- it must needs at its other extreme transmit even into the next century the high mood, the scholar-like wit, and the pure style of the finest strain of acting that Time has bestowed upon civilized man.

Modern Eloquence: Vol III, After-Dinner Speeches P-Z Various