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- adjective dominated or plagued by
books .
Etymologies
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book + -ridden
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Examples
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We are, as you sometimes say, a book-ridden people, -- a phantom-ridden people.
The Correspondence of Thomas Carlyle and Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1834-1872, Vol II. Thomas Carlyle 1838
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We are, as you sometimes say, a book-ridden people, ” a phantom-ridden people. ”
The Correspondence of Thomas Carlyle and Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1834-1872, Vol II Carlyle, Thomas 1883
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