There was no lecturing system, and there was no such thing known as coaching; and the recitations consisted, like those in the juvenile schools, in answering questions taken from the lesson in standard textbooks, and called out no special abilities in the students which could distinguish the men of mark from the merest bookworms.
"The Autobiography of a Journalist, Volume I"
William James Stillman
How good to dip them all deep in the great ocean of oblivion, and watch the bookworms, diarists, 'raconteurs,' and all the old-clothesmen of life, scurrying out of their holes, as when in summer-time Mary Anne submerges the cockroach trap within the pail!
"Prose Fancies"
Richard Le Gallienne
It is a change, however, that we bookworms and curious antiquaries in nowise relish.
"The Book-Hunter at Home"
P. B. M. Allan