Crossword-Solution: BOOKISHLY 9 letters, 1 clue 🏆 scrabble score: 21

And how few, how few words, I thought, in passing, were needed; how little of the idyllic (and affectedly, bookishly, artificially idyllic too) had sufficed to turn a whole human life at once according to my will.

They do not talk bookishly about clouds or stones, or pigs or slugs, or horses or anything you please.

Johnson; to have (like all good men) simply abominated talking about his own works, or indeed bookishly at all, full as his conversation was of literature; and, though a great tale-teller, to have been no monopoliser of the conversation in any way.

She is very bookishly inclined, and has said that there are two things she prefers to acting--to be an author or to serve as a trained nurse.

This splendid prince, who was, as Catherine's priestly biographer,[44] Burriel, informs us, more bookishly inclined than could have been expected from a person of his exalted rank, took care that her education should be sedulously attended to by some of the learned persons who abounded in his court.