eruditions

A final sip of coffee and the pipe dream—loans, degrees, apprenticeships, unmarketable eruditions wadded together like backhanded papier-mâché—says farewell, looming carbon in shop windows, antithetical to my reflection.

Lawn Clippings Matthew J. Robinson 2011

Certaine it is, that the documents and eruditions of all other whatsoever, are weak, or of no worth, in respect of thine: as hath notably appeared, by the remonstrances already past, and whereto (worthy Ladies) I wil adde another of a simple woman, who taught her husband such a lesson, as shee never learned of any, but Love himselfe.

The Decameron 2004

The genealogies; the waxing and waning of fortunes, the poetry and declamations, the ceremonial fumes, the gallantries and romantic postures, the eruditions, and scholarship.

Marune: Alastor 933 Vance, Jack 1975

Tutors educated the three children; they chose cogences and eruditions.

Marune: Alastor 933 Vance, Jack 1975

I remember the _e_ part of the sermon more distinctly than all of his profound eruditions of theology, dogmas, creeds and evidences of Christianity, and I only write at this time from memory of things that happened twenty years ago.

"Co. Aytch" Maury Grays, First Tennessee Regiment or, A Side Show of the Big Show Sam R. Watkins

As much as there are those who drag the tenor down with their absurdities, their venom or their inability to speak more than one primary hobbyhorse no matter the topic, well, heck: they backlight the real thinkers who wander in and treat folks to unpredictable eruditions, delightful absurdities of intelligence too.

BlueOregon 2009

OK, I have finally ordered your Deathly Hallows Lectures so I can benefit from your Potter eruditions without John Mark Reynolds and Paul Spears interrupting every sentence.

HogwartsProfessor.com 2008