You'll ruin your pretty eyes, and you had the makings of a fine bluestocking when I rescued you.
He was afraid I would become a bluestocking and lose my charm and spoil my looks.
It was in special reference to him that Mrs Montagu's friends were called the Bluestocking Society or Club, and the women frequenting her house in Hill Street came to be known as the "Bluestocking Ladies" or simply "bluestockings.
No, now that she has become a bluestocking she has finally renounced her former infatuations," he told himself.
There has never been an instance of a bluestocking being carried away by affairs of the heart"--a statement which, though gathered from an unknown source, he believed implicitly.
The Bluestocking paused and looked round the circle of interested faces.
This would have meant the death of all liveliness for some hours to come, and a general sigh had begun to heave, when once more our brave Bluestockingstemmed the tide.
It was obvious that the brave Bluestocking so far lacked the courage of her opinions as to be agonisingly embarrassed at this public expression of them.
I went yesterday evening to the Bluestocking Circle at Mrs Montagu's fine house in Hill Street.
All the great ladies of the Bluestocking Court were there: the vastly learned Mrs Carter, Mrs Delany over from Ireland, the Swan of Lichfield Miss Anna Seward, Mrs Chapone, and other lionesses and cubesses.
We have neither the time nor the inclination to make the Court a Bluestocking circle, and Miss Burney may prefer such surroundings.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "bluestocking" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: bluestocking; bookish; formalist; literary; pedant; pedantic; purist; scholastic
