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Missis Gummidge,' he returned, 'not being a good scholar, sir, Ham kindly drawed it out, and she made a copy on it.

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 Meanings and Examples of SCHOLARLY
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
scholarly
 a.  academic; scientific; characteristic of scholars or scholarship
Classic Sentence: (48 in 4 pages)
1  The eyes of the wrinkled scholar glowed so intensely upon her, that Hester Prynne clasped her hand over her heart, dreading lest he should read the secret there at once.
The Scarlet Letter By Nathaniel Hawthorne
Context  Highlight   In IV. THE INTERVIEW
2  "One thing, thou that wast my wife, I would enjoin upon thee," continued the scholar.
The Scarlet Letter By Nathaniel Hawthorne
Context  Highlight   In IV. THE INTERVIEW
3  He needed to bask himself in that smile, he said, in order that the chill of so many lonely hours among his books might be taken off the scholar's heart.
The Scarlet Letter By Nathaniel Hawthorne
Context  Highlight   In XV. HESTER AND PEARL
4  Or, as is more thy nature, be a scholar and a sage among the wisest and the most renowned of the cultivated world.
The Scarlet Letter By Nathaniel Hawthorne
Context  Highlight   In XVII. THE PASTOR AND HIS PARISHIONER
5  And she an't over partial to having scholars on the premises," Joe continued, "and in partickler would not be over partial to my being a scholar, for fear as I might rise.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In Chapter VII
6  Before this boy, who was reputed to be a great scholar, and was very good-looking, and at least half-a-dozen years my senior, I was carried as before a magistrate.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 6. I ENLARGE MY CIRCLE OF ACQUAINTANCE
7  As I have got my breath now, I think I'll measure this young scholar.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 9. I HAVE A MEMORABLE BIRTHDAY
8  Doctor Strong refers to me in public as a promising young scholar.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 18. A RETROSPECT
9  You're a scholar,' he said, hurriedly, 'and know what's right and best.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 31. A GREATER LOSS
10  I'm a poor scholar, but I shall write to you, odd times, when you're away, and send my letters to Mas'r Davy.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 32. THE BEGINNING OF A LONG JOURNEY
11  Missis Gummidge,' he returned, 'not being a good scholar, sir, Ham kindly drawed it out, and she made a copy on it.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 40. THE WANDERER
12  'Now you are a scholar, Trotwood,' said Mr. Dick.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 45. MR. DICK FULFILS MY AUNT'S PREDICTIONS
13  'Fine scholar,' said Mr. Dick, touching me with his finger.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 45. MR. DICK FULFILS MY AUNT'S PREDICTIONS
14  "Parfen Denisitch now, for all he was no scholar, he died a death that God grant every one of us the like," she said, referring to a servant who had died recently.
Anna Karenina 1 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In PART 3: Chapter 30
15  Well, I don't know as I'd say he was such a whale of a scholar.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XIV
Example Sentence: (24 in 2 pages)
1  In order to earn a graduate degree from many of our universities, a candidate is frequently required to prepare a dissertation on some scholarly subject.
2  The end of all scholarly attainment is to live nobly.
3  By fostering superior journalistic writing from scholarly research, the School's aim is to improve the standard of professional journalism.
4  Much of scholarly research is learning what others have discovered and building on it.
5  He has gained a distinction in various fields of scholarly studies.
6  My object was to publish a scholarly work on Peter Mourne.
7  Official handouts describe the Emperor as "particularly noted as a scholar".
8  John Frame : Increasingly difficult to determine whether a scholar's hermeneutics is orthodox.
9  By steady effort, she landed up as a famous scholar.
10  Follow her cue, and one day you'll be a great scholar.
11  Dr Miles was a distinguished scholar of Russian history.
12  He was afraid another scholar was going to steal a march on him and publish first.
13  He is a serious scholar, a genuinely learned man.
14  The scholar discoursed on the poetic style of John Keats.
15  Today is the scholar of yesterday.