But he did not like bookish women and he often said that nothing was more becoming to a woman than ignorance.
Beatrice, the second daughter, had, as has been noted, a bookish turn.
To an extent, I think, unapproached elsewhere, they are, and they always have been, a bookish people.
In this bookish age, we fondly impute immortality to books.
That "bookish theoric," so detested by Iago, is apparently firmly in control of affairs and has displaced its predecessors and rivals.
And not only was this bookish trait visible in our colonial infancy but it may be said to have had an ante-natal origin.
There is the rummager, who snarls at all catalogues, and wants the freedom of the library, not for studious research, but to gratify his bookish propensity.
This was a kind of thing quite new to her in her experience of the Wendovers, who were not a bookish race.
It had been supposed that as a bookishyoung man, given over to Greek and Latin, he must needs be a poor hand with horses.
Give an account of Franklin's bookish habits, and of his experiences on the journey from Boston to Philadelphia, when he ran away from home.
His father, noting his bookish habits, decided to apprentice Benjamin to his older brother, James, a printer in Boston.
This happens sufficiently often to make it possible for a bookish enthusiast of an antiquarian turn of mind to lose himself with marvellous rapidity in a maze of old-time dispersions.
The number of books with 'magnificent plates' or in 'splendid condition' that turned out on inspection to be the tramps and tatterdemalions of bookish society was very surprising.
So, too, Moorfields was once classic ground, as also the Poultry, but both places have been dead to bookish fame this hundred years.
The peril of the purely bookish man is that of becoming a prig.
One evening at dinner this chap happened to be in a bookish company when the talk turned to the enthusiasm of the Southern negro for an illustrated Bible.
I am inclined to think that the most attractive parlor I have ever visited is that of a bookish friend whose walls are thus furnished with what not only delights the eye, but silently invites the mind to an inspiring companionship.
If he is wise, the practical man realizes how much better off he would be, how much farther his hard work and experience might have carried him, if he had had the advantage of bookish training.
After thirty years spent among books and bookish people I have never yet met anyone who would admit that he had ploughed through such a course from beginning to end.
His talk was unaffected and natural, never bookish in the smallest degree.
One wonders how an invalid recluse, a bookishphilosopher like Schiller, should ever have been able to write such scenes.
Aside from his acquaintance with Franziska von Hohenheim, and an occasional nearer view of the coy maidens of the école des demoiselles, the female sex and the grand passion were for him only bookish mysteries.
It shows no such zest for bookish pursuits as Rossetti's letters, written at the same age, reveal.
A reader of History, with no experience of affairs, is likely to have imperfect bookish notions; just as a man of affairs, not a reader, is subject to narrowness of another kind.
From want of opportunity, or from disinclination, many persons have all their information on certain subjects cast in the bookish mould, and do not fully conceive the particular facts as these strike the mind in their own character.
Hamilton and De Quincey, each in his way, could form high ideals of work, and in part execute them; but their productiveness suffered from too much bookish intoxication.
He was, however, a man of bookish tastes, and, when already over thirty years of age, was advised to set up in business as a printer and bookseller.
Once a month a number of booksellers gather here and we discuss matters of bookish concern over corn-cobs and cider.
What need of tongue-talk, with a bookish store Would stock ten cities?
His soft, smooth voice and bookish language exhaust me, and his stories stupefy me.
The second preliminary is to surround yourself with books, to create for yourself a bookish atmosphere.
This, in the calendar of bookish misdemeanors, is the crime of crimes.
It must be confessed that only New England could have produced him; only the rarified bookish atmosphere of three hundred years could have engendered a creature of such genius!
Among the host of little prigs and prudes in story-books of the day, it is delightful to find in Catharine Sedgwick herself an example of a bookish child who was natural.
Although his father was only a small farmer, Newbury inherited his bookish tastes from an ancestor, Ralph or Rafe Newbery, who had been a great publisher of the sixteenth century.
Lord Findon was puzzled, but submissive; the bookish sister Theresa, now a woman of thirty, welcomed anything that would bring her back to the London Library and the British Museum.
As long as a scholar was pursuing his studies bonâ fide, he might remain a member of the college; if he was tired of books and bookish people, he might go.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "bookish" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
