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  • Aymer knew all this and made no mention of lessons, for Christopher was backward in more matters than booklearning and the life on a big estate, the infinite variety of interests was all good food for the boy's hungry brain and soul.

    Christopher Hibbault, Roadmaker Marguerite Bryant

  • “And I do suppose, now, ” said Mr. Peggotty, looking at me through the smoke of his pipe, “that in the way of booklearning he’d take the wind out of a’most anything.

    X. I Become Neglected, and Am Provided For 1917

  • Dan, finding himself left entirely without occupation, "feared he would be taking to booklearning soon if something didn't happen!"

    We of the Never-Never Jeannie Gunn 1915

  • "There's writing and spelling yet," he said, and Dan, with his interest in booklearning reviving, watched the square chin setting squarer, and was bewildered.

    We of the Never-Never Jeannie Gunn 1915

  • In mere booklearning, Percival, as may be supposed, was not very extensively read; but his mind, if not largely stored, had a certain unity of culture, which gave it stability and individualized its operations.

    Lucretia — Volume 04 Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton 1838

  • In mere booklearning, Percival, as may be supposed, was not very extensively read; but his mind, if not largely stored, had a certain unity of culture, which gave it stability and individualized its operations.

    Lucretia — Complete Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton 1838

  • Though he had as little booklearning as the most stupid ploughboys of England, it would have been a great error to put him in the same intellectual rank with such ploughboys.

    The History of England, from the Accession of James II — Volume 3 Thomas Babington Macaulay Macaulay 1829

  • It doesn’t take a lot of booklearning to see that big downtown real estate owners would love to be freed from property-based school levies for inner-city schools.

    Matthew Yglesias » Vouchers in DC 2007

  • Gerard shook his head very doubtfully, but kept silence for about a mile, and then he said thoughtfully, "Ay, Denys, but then I am sustained by booklearning.

    The Cloister and the Hearth Charles Reade 1849

  • But you are referring to the notion of "experience vs. booklearning". … "

    BangorDailyNews.com - News 2010

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