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Examples
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They are book-taught ill manners. baith auld and young yonder
Lass of Glenshee (3) 1997
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And having done that, I thought I'd best turn to and make a book of my own, lest book-taught slovens should garble me when I'm dead.
The Praise Singer Renault, Mary 1978
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I ain't going to let no book-taught medico worry me yet!
Then I'll Come Back to You Larry Evans
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One does not like to speak of them, particularly to those who do not and can not know -- to good women in whose innocent minds female immorality is inseparable from flashy gowning and the painted face; to foolish, book-taught men who honestly believe in some protective sanctity that hedges womanhood.
A Cynic Looks at Life Ambrose Bierce 1878
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One does not like to speak of them, particularly to those who do not and can not know -- to good women in whose innocent minds female immorality is inseparable from flashy gowning and the painted face; to foolish, book-taught men who honestly believe in some protective sanctity that hedges womanhood.
The Shadow On The Dial, and Other Essays 1909 Ambrose Bierce 1878
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This book-taught man, to man's first foe profess'd
The Borough George Crabbe 1793
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This book-taught man, to man's first foe profess'd
The Borough George Crabbe 1793
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This book-taught man, to man's first foe profess'd
The Borough George Crabbe 1793
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