| 1. | He is not very academic by nature. - from Les Miserables by Victor Hugo |
| 2. | I felt that I was wasting my time in the academic examination of machinery. - from The Time Machine by H. G. (Herbert George) Wells |
| 3. | A magic resideth even in his academic chair. - from Thus Spake Zarathustra by Friedrich Nietzsche |
| 4. | The fact is it is only the academic that can be taught. - from The Practice and Science Of Drawing by Harold Speed |
| 5. | It has been the cry for some time that Schools of Art turned out only academic students. - from The Practice and Science Of Drawing by Harold Speed |
| 6. | A drawing is not necessarily academic because it is thorough, but only because it is dead. - from The Practice and Science Of Drawing by Harold Speed |
| 7. | To all those belauded sages of the academic chairs, wisdom was sleep without dreams they knew no higher significance of life. - from Thus Spake Zarathustra by Friedrich Nietzsche |
| 8. | It is difficult to explain what is wrong with an academic drawing, and what is the difference between it and fa fine drawing. - from The Practice and Science Of Drawing by Harold Speed |
| 9. | But this is not advisable for anything but an academic study, or working drawings, as it spoils the beauty and freshness of charcoal work. - from The Practice and Science Of Drawing by Harold Speed |