Gradual experiences of his business among his fellows were teaching an exercised mind to learn in regions where minds unexercised were doctorial giants beside it.
"The Amazing Marriage, v3"
George Meredith Edition: 10 Language: English
"Well, you've had my doctorial warning," said Adrian; and plunged back into his book.
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Everybody abused Algernon for his abuse of common Queen's English in his epistles: but here was a letter in comparison with which his own were doctorial, and accordingly he fell upon it with an acrimonious rapture of pedantry known to dull wits that have by extraordinary hazard pounced on a duller.
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