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Meanings of blue stocking in English

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Usage of blue stocking in English
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She took up a bright blue stocking from the bench.
Women of the Country
2
Without at all affecting the blue stocking, she liked books.
Chronicles of the Canongate, 1st Series
3
Nan was sitting at the window inside, knitting her stent on a blue stocking.
The Junior Classics, Volume 6: Old-Fashioned Tales
4
Damon came forward, his hair grimy beneath a blue stocking cap he never removed.
The lost recipe for happiness
5
Miss Prudence, I'm afraid I'll be a homely blue stocking.
Miss Prudence: A Story of Two Girls' Lives.
6
But you won't be a blue stocking, I hope!
Arthur Hamilton, and His Dog
7
After retrieving from the sand the blue cap and the blue stocking, her companion followed her.
The Tyranny of Weakness
8
What's the good of being a blue stocking!
Love and Other Stories
9
A blue stocking is the very deuce!
Love and Other Stories
10
She was a blue stocking.
Jane Cable
11
Thus, a green horse will be seen standing on red legs, and a red horse will sport a blue stocking!
Arts and Crafts in the Middle Ages / A Description of Mediaeval ...
12
Perhaps you are right, I have no wish to be a blue stocking and deserted in my old age, far from it.
The Lion and the Mouse; a Story of an American Life
13
The dowdy " blue stocking" had vanished, and in her place was a girl as attractive in her darkness as Freddy was in his fairness.
There was a King in Egypt
14
He pointed out the leading critics and the blue stockings of the day.
The Summons
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Again the wearers of bedraggled blue stockings surged and broke against the line.
The Half-Back: A Story of School, Football, and Golf
16
George Eliot at this period looked perilously like a Blue Stocking.
Masters of the English Novel: A Study of Principles and Personal...
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