Sentence Examples:
Here comes our dearest Pedant!
Unconscious pedants are proving it.
Leave all that to futile pedants.
He is not a commonplace pedant.
"This girl is not a pedant."
Pedant looks out of the window.
Note that pedants lose all proportion.
"I am not a pedant," he protested.
You are a pedant, my dear fellow.
What are these but rank pedants?
Will the pedant name her next?
It has wonderful attractions for pedants.
It makes a man a pedant only.
A horrid practice, but I am no pedant.
I have no use for priests and pedants.
I do not mean that, you old pedant.
He was the very opposite of a pedant.
Poor fool, the pedant's mad for love!
John Taylor are among the "mere pedants."
At best a learned pedant, in my case.
We are mere children or pedants compared to her.
Fielding has an odd touch of the pedant.
How fiery and how forward is our pedant!
Men fell into the pedant frame of mind.
Lovers of genial nature were charmed, pedants almost frightened.
My cousins are not such pedants as you are.
The men who made it were no constitutional pedants.
One who is educated beyond his intellect, a pedant.
Did I want to become a priest or a pedant?
Then I like your burial of the pedant so much!
English pedants may succeed in doing the like.
To be frank, I consider Paul something of a pedant.
I have discovered that the pedant does not exist.
Spoken like a brave man and not a pedant!
Was the boy going to grow up a pedant?
"Why, what has a pedant to do with fins?"
The danger is that I may become a mere pedant.
Foreign travel especially makes men pedants, not artists.
Sometimes he shows himself the most absurd of pedants.
Do you wish to be the first pedant of your race?'
Pedants have never been much considered by men of action.
"That was a liberty I took only with the pedant."
Here all priests are reserved, and nearly all are pedants.
She may be ever so learned, she is never a pedant.
The worthy pedants are kind enough to be afraid for them.
This huge pedant of a fellow struck him as so absurd.
Cried the awful pedant, flourishing his rod in eager preparation.
The most numerous and the worst pedants were middle-aged ladies.
Then departed he with great scorn of pedants and scholars.
He wants to be a scholar, and fears to be a pedant.
Green, I'll punch your head for you directly, you unspeakable pedant!
I am not, however, on the present occasion arguing with pedants.
Pedant for pedant, the old is better than the new.
I was very young then and a good deal of a pedant.
As if to prove that our ancestors were no better than pedants!
In a word, a common-place critic is the pedant of polite conversation.
The Doctor was a learned and amiable man, but a pedant.
A little knowledge makes a pedant, much knowledge makes a scholar.
Not the least touch of the poet or the pedant ...
What is a greater pedant than a mere man of the town?
It is an old pedant's pleasure that the younger generation indulges in.
All Englishmen are pedants, even in their games, even in their sport.
You cannot speak of Tao to a pedant; his scope is too restricted.
The kingdom was happy enough till the pedants got into it.
After some years they become scientists, perhaps pedants, but not soldiers.
The state pedant is wrapped up in news, and lost in politics.
Ben Jonson was a poet and a pedant; Greene, a university-bred man.
With all this learning, Carteret was far from being a pedant.
A philosophy made for professors is apt to be a philosophy for pedants.
We have fewer pedants, it is true, but we have fewer striking originals.
That is a fact of which every pedant of civilization should take note.
I am not such a pedant as to prefer phrases to living beings.
He is a learned poet, and perhaps just a trifle of a pedant.
Its scientific side is that on which the pedant generally approaches it.
He was one of those self-important pedants who never minded telling anybody.
Those pedants say that the dead are dead, the past is past.
You, an old, worn-out pedant, to think of marrying that beautiful young creature!
Winthrop was a fair scholar, an indifferent poet, and somewhat of a pedant.
To be a pedant, is to see neither the beauties of nature nor of art.
Sensible persons are apt to set them down, as either fools or pedants.
It may be exhibited as one of the most extravagant inventions of a pedant.
And pedants, in their kind, call this the poet's fancy, his imagination.
And what else has one a right to demand unless he is a pedant?
I was five and forty before I ever knew that I was a pedant.
They wrote not for pedants or any exclusive circle, but for mankind.
It is not this hypothesis which is absurd, it is the simplicity of pedants.
A man who insulted Voltaire was at once promoted to the dignity of pedant.
My readers may perceive that Denis, although a pedant, was not a fool.
"Gallants" and "pedants" were the respective outputs of the two types of schools.
A learned pedant who laughs at the possible comes very near being an idiot.
A critical knowledge of historical events may assist a statesman or form a pedant.
To the Englishman, at least to the pedant, he is still a somewhat elaborate jest.
It seemed as if all the pedants of France held their classes in her house.
If I loved pedants as you do, I should think the match an excellent one.
His uncle's death left him at the age of seventeen already a finished pedant.
He put aside the empty plea of right which satisfied legal pedants like George Grenville.
You would merely regard me as a pedant with some unimportant theory about vegetable cells.
Nobody that ever lived was less of a pedant, academic don, or loud Sir Oracle.
This is a truth which the pedants will only realize when it is too late.