Word: bookworm
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Martha Washington. "In any case, the meeting with Martha was a blessing to him [Washington]. He was none of your intellectuals himself, no bookworm. He had gone through years of loneliness in rain and snow, in horror, bloodshed and defeat. He needed above all things a plump little widow to take him to her soft breast and give him repose and the luxury of a home. If he could not give her the passionate ardor of his first love, neither could she give him hers...
...friends remember him as a bookworm of athletic prowess at Eton and Christ Church College, Oxford. His father, who is considered the foremost Anglo-Catholic of the day, is said to regard his son's equal devotion to that faith with satisfaction...
...Bookworm Newton Has Good Capacity, Good Digestion The epistle dedicatory of these essays is addressed to the founder of a little club of wilful men who came together fortnightly 40 years ago in Philadelphia to rub wits and read papers on the lives, times, works, and in the manner, of worthy men of English letters. Author Newton declares that the meetings were a liberal education; and since he further declares this education was the only one he ever received, the reader can but think what a singularly fine little club that fine little club must have been...
...Author Newton turned out to be a bookworm of astonishing capacity and superlative digestion, with a most charming literary style of his own to impart the gusto of his protracted feasts. He fell not only to voracious reading, but also to the deeper vice of collecting books for the rarity and beauty of their colophons, the nicety of their printing and margins, the occasions and associations of their appearance in book history, the inscriptions and old bookplates to be discovered in them and the lively diversion of nosing out rare editions in the bookstalls of two continents and a pair...
...personally very interesting, a man whose grave dignity of face, figure, speech and manner is of public note. His intimates will tell you that his aloof reserve and unapproachableness, which qualities are so valuable in handling high-strung singers, are rooted in shyness, that the. man is a bookworm, with the sensitive timidity of his kind. Gatti began his life as a civil engineer. He has a first-rate mind, with all the shrewd subtlety that one attributes to Italians. He distinctly has the grand manner. It is this, perhaps, that makes him reluctant to talk English. He would rather...