| 1. | More than a spinster unless the bookish theoric. - from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare |
| 2. | Whose bookish rule hath pull'd fair England down. - from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare |
| 3. | He himself did not yet know what he would say, but he began to speak eagerly, occasionally lapsing into French or expressing himself in bookish Russian. - from War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy |
| 4. | With Pfuel was Wolzogen, who expressed Pfuel's thoughts in a more comprehensible way than Pfuel himself who was a harsh, bookish theorist, self-confident to the point of despising everyone else was able to do. - from War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy |