Crossword-Solution: PEDANTICAL 10 letters, 2 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 15

You have not perhaps forgot a day when you were so kind as to escort three very tedious misses to Hope Park? I have the less cause to forget it myself, because you was so particular obliging as to introduce me to some of the principles of the Latin grammar, a thing which wrote itself profoundly on my gratitude.” “I fear I was sadly pedantical,” said I, overcome with confusion at the memory.

Taffeta phrases, silken terms precise, Three-piled hyperboles, spruce affectation, Figures pedantical: these summer flies Have blown me full of maggot ostentation.

But this is true, that of the methods of common-places that I have seen, there is none of any sufficient worth, all of them carrying merely the face of a school and not of a world; and referring to vulgar matters and pedantical divisions, without all life or respect to action.

Better let me drive, and my mare can follow behind." It took at least five minutes before the wearisome, pedantical fellow had finished his arrangements and preparations.

She recounts with caustic relish the story about a certain pedantical lady, of whom Tierney had said that there was not another head in England that could encounter hers on the subject of Cause and Effect.