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Above all, they objected to the bookish education which she was giving to her son, the young King.
Bookish families are usually the happiest, at least if we rightly estimate the term.
He had, in truth, somewhat of a bookish look, and his rounded shoulders already told of much poring over a student's tasks.
He was probably the least bookish poet who had ever had a classical education.
In part, this was a conventional rhetorical strategy designed to separate the bookish and divine from the illiterate and worldly.
A bookish idea helped to solidify a social reality.
The subversive side of the lab had as its target to undermine the prevalent bookish character of foreign language learning and teaching.
With a very few exceptions, he was not bookish, and he sometimes had a little difficulty with his entrance examinations.
Knowledge of the bookish type is, after all, a comparatively limited form of knowledge.
The codes are to apply to our good police officers who are honest, courageous and upright, but not bookish persons.
One of my colleagues at that time was a shy, bookish, softly-spoken, red-haired, bespectacled young lecturer.
We have sometimes observed a tendency to depreciate bookish soldiers.
That does not mean that it is to be merely a literary or bookish education.
I was born poor, but in fact we were a bookish family.
Learning is not simply a bookish affair.
A bookish man, he avoided society, and buried himself in his ample library.
He inserts into them a lost feeling, so that the song in this rendition does not have a bookish feeling.
Blood and soil plays, for instance, depicted a woman rejecting her bookish fiance in order to marry an estate owner.
At one stage he was adopted out to a paper-making family but the bookish boy was not suited to business.
