At one stage he was adopted out to a paper-making family but the bookish boy was not suited to business.
Blood and soil plays, for instance, depicted a woman rejecting her bookish fiance in order to marry an estate owner.
He inserts into them a lost feeling, so that the song in this rendition does not have a bookish feeling.
A bookish man, he avoided society, and buried himself in his ample library.
Learning is not simply a bookish affair.
I was born poor, but in fact we were a bookish family.
That does not mean that it is to be merely a literary or bookish education.
We have sometimes observed a tendency to depreciate bookish soldiers.
