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1565 L. Evans Brieue Admon. sig. Bij And is it also grauitie, for one taken to be the profoundest clearke of theyr companye..to gett hym a yong dame to stande at his studie doore, and so in the myddest of his newe godlynes to marye?

1629 J. Mabbe tr. C. de Fonseca Deuout Contempl. i. 12 Take off the casement from your Studie window in a windie day, and it will hurle all your papers abroad.

1646 W. Prynne Canterburies Doome 66 They being imployed to search the Archbishops study,..found these observable particulars therein. First, An English Bible of the last translation in Quarto,..lying on his Study Table.

1758 W. Borlase Nat. Hist. Cornwall vi. 64 By burning a small quantity of it, it appears more tenacious, and fitter for stone and potters ware, being reduced into a very hard clome by my study fire.

1762 L. Sterne Life Tristram Shandy V. i. 2 I will lock up my study door the moment I get home, and throw the key of it ninety feet below the surface of the earth.

1796 J. Woodforde Diary 16 Sept. (1929) IV. 307 Put up the Study Window-Curtain that has been lately dyed.

1823 M. M. Sherwood Henry Milner (ed. 2) iii. 17 He was always particular about the study carpet.

1871 J. R. Lowell (title) My study windows.

1974 T. Sharpe Porterhouse Blue xix. 204 Beneath his feet a rug gently slid away and Sir Godber subsided on to the study floor.

2005 Spectator 22 Oct. 40/1 His study walls are lined with books and bottles.