All his life he had Pored over old books and musty parchments; but from them he had acquired little wisdom, for one bright spring-time he fell in love with a farmer's daughter-and married her.
"Orientations"
William Somerset Maugham
The folly and wrong of trying to make children study beyond the fatigue point was never more clearly pointed out than by Dickens in the description of the school he attended when a boy, given as a contrast to the life and brightness and interest shown in the schools of the Stepney Union: When I was at school, one of seventy boys, I wonder by what secret understanding our attention began to wander when we had Pored over our books for some hours.
"Dickens As an Educator"
James L. (James Laughlin) Hughes
She bent her head and Pored over her book.
"The Way of Ambition"
Robert Hichens