lucubration

For this species of displaced rhythmic lucubration a peculiar dim light was essential.

Aurore read the terrible lucubration until the end.

There was lucubration, a word distinctly sexual and yet suggesting such cerebral connotations as to make me uneasy.

It was a very subtle sexual algebra, the midnight lucubration which would earn you an A or a B next day, but nothing more.

Logos, Bucephalus, arras, lucubration and so on.

"Lucubration" (2012) in Avatars of Wizardry (ed.

Though he is talking to other men sleeping in his bedroom in the custom of the time, his story has some resemblance to a lucubration or a dream.

He often writes like an academic fussbudget, seasoning his prose with words like "lucubration" and "propinquity," and occasionally knitting some real syntactic doilies.

Jared extols the spiritual beauty of rowing on the Thames; Murray shrivels the lucubration, calling the pastime "a seriously knackering way of going backwards slowly."

Garrison, F.H. (1932), "A Lucubration on the Caduceus", Mil.

Born of recessionary, disenchanted times, Pictures art shared menacingly cynical attitudes toward mainstream culture with punk rock, in night-life venues, and with deconstructionist lucubration, in academia.

Various spells from first edition bear his name, such as Mordenkainen's faithful hound, Mordenkainen's lucubration, and Mordenkainen's sword.

His pair of portraits showing Elizabeth Haffey, and her brother, John Burges Haffey, as children, were engraved in mezzotint by Robert Laurie, and his picture Female Lucubration, was similarly engraved by Philip Dawe.