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Meanings of bookish man in English

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Usage of bookish man in English
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The bookish man came forward briskly, evincing a scholarly and even conciliatory manner.
Sisterhood of Dune
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A bookish man should always have them to converse with.
Boswell's Life of Johnson / Abridged and edited, with an introdu...
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It was part of Marian's pride in her father that he was a bookish man.
A Hoosier Chronicle
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Jacobs was a bookish man with thin gray hair and a worried look on his face.
By reason of insanity
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Just a few, the indispensable companions of a bookish man who still clings to life-his Homer, his Shakespeare-
New Grub Street
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A bookish man and no warrior.
A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms
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Your bookish man at the West has never learned to mark the distinction between the world of ideas and the world of practical life.
The End of the World: A Love Story
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He is one of the most bookish men of antiquity.
The Letters of the Younger Pliny, First Series — Volume 1
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Most of these narrow, bookish men deny to animals capabilities which every country schoolboy knows they possess.
The Human Side of Animals
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It's naething but a little queasiness, such as we elder, bookish men are apt to get by ower-much application.
The Yeoman Adventurer
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"The dogs, sir?" Sergei Vladimirovich was a thin, bookish man, and his lip curled in disgust.
Shift
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'I thought it would be bigger than this,' Yule muttered, as he opened the volume in a way peculiar to bookish men.
New Grub Street
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