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And who else would be reading a novel but a bookish girl?
These days, a bookish conservative has many places to turn.
"Like most bookish little kids I was always very interested in what other people were doing," she said.
But being bookish was not an easy pursuit at times.
At times like these a bookish wife is not a blessing.
She received a basic education and was considered a bookish girl.
To make room, he and his wife gave away many of their books, an especially traumatic experience for the bookish couple.
But they were always bookish people - teachers and so on."
I was also a bookish, academic child who loved reading, language and music.
He was very short, with thick glasses and a bookish air.
At first the lawyer had seemed to be a gentle, bookish man.
"They told me you were a kind of bookish guy," Julie said.
Rather it lies between a bookish young man and an athlete.
Kate Bush showed bookish girls how to find the artist within.
The whole building will be quite a bookish place.
Ours was not a bookish home, and no one in my family had graduated from college.
Daniel was bookish, and as a teenager he wore his hair long.
To take it one step further, who says that hard rock can't even be bookish?
Or one of the bookish girls, who spent her lunches in the library?
She has given new definitions to both our bookish titles and language.
Even after he left academia, his bookish qualities were well known.
No one suspected bookish scientists of looking much beyond their laboratories.
In a family defined by commerce and high society, he was a bookish intellectual.
He has described his own childhood behavior as "bookish and bizarre."
Elizabeth was more social, less bookish, with a split major in education and math.