(1) He was a skilled, surgeon, scientist, author and bibliophile.
(2) It is difficult to imagine that the team Adams broke into (which contained Charlie Nicholas, Kenny Sansom and several other players who were not, it is probably fair to say, teetotal bibliophiles) would have been terribly sympathetic to the character that has emerged since his treatment for alcohol addiction four years ago.
(3) The author summarizes the contributions of bibliophiles who used their collections as a source of inspiration for historical studies and addresses the challenges confronting medical book collectors.
(4) The author presents details about the great bibliophiles who received their stimulus from William Osler, his associates, or his writings.
(5) Dodie Smith's Cassandra, in I Capture the Castle, would "bask first, wash second and then read as long as the hot water holds out" when taking a bath – a practice which the advent of the e-reader has made harder for careful bibliophiles.
(6) I have seen it twice, so, like the renegade bibliophiles from Fahrenheit 451, gather ye round and I will tell you the tale.
(7) We report seven cases of prednisonephobia and classify this phobia as interpersonal, iatrogenic, bibliophilic, or parental.
(8) From Byron to Balzac, Walt Whitman to La Fontaine, China’s bibliophile leader has repeatedly used overseas speeches to show off the depth of his literary knowledge.
(9) With the announcement that Harvey Cushing is to be honored by a United States postage stamp in the Great American stamp series, the qualities that this remarkable man possessed are reviewed--artist, author, bibliophile, scientist, soldier, physician, and teacher.
Bookworm
Definition:
(n.) Any larva of a beetle or moth, which is injurious to books. Many species are known.
(n.) A student closely attached to books or addicted to study; a reader without appreciation.
Example Sentences:
(1) "She is a very private person after all, a bookworm really, she once said.
(2) But he argued that his hard labour in the fields had prevented him from studying and attacked "bookworms who ignored their proper occupations" and craved a college education for their own selfish benefits.
(3) She has just got a job in publishing and is a real bookworm, so her advice was valuable.
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(5) Other changes include "housemistress" becoming "teacher", "awful swotter" becoming "bookworm", "mother and father" becoming "mum and dad", "school tunic" becoming "uniform" and Dick's comment that "she must be jolly lonely all by herself" being changed to "she must get lonely all by herself".
(6) Speaking last month at the Bookworm literary festival in Beijing, Hyeonseo Lee , a defector who fled North Korea in 1997, attacked Beijing’s treatment of North Korean defectors.
(7) Sims may love food, family or mischief; they may be hotheaded bookworms, gloomy loners or goofball romantics; they could be driven by dreamy creativity or pure financial greed.
(8) I don’t have a problem with the term “gamer” – to me it signifies what “film buff” or “bookworm” does – someone who is heavily invested in the medium.
(9) Finally, you’ve found another bookworm – and you can judge them by what they’re reading (yes, Middlemarch; no, Ayn Rand).
(10) The ever-busy Cave's one-woman show, Bookworm, debuts at the Edinburgh festival fringe this summer.
(11) In those days, any self-respecting teenage bookworm went to school with a Penguin Modern Classic tucked in a blazer pocket.