The true literary man will read anything rather than read nothing.

Not a single literary man was present at the funeral.

Your literary man must have complete quiet if he is to give the public of his best.

Although she wasn't popular with most literary men, they talked about her a lot.

But the great literary men of the kingdom had gone to the country.

Once upon a time there lived an emperor who was a sage and something of a literary man.

He used to say of himself, "I shall leave behind me a name dear to literary men."

He was 20 years her senior, with an established reputation as a literary man.

Perhaps a valentine for the sad young literary man in your life.

As a man of letters is much less well known.

In 1751, I removed from the country to the town, the true scene for a man of letters.

By background, he was both a man of letters and well trained in arms.

"You ought to have a man of letters like Johnson."

"I see you are a man of letters," he said, not without some surprise.

But even "man of letters" does not quite grasp him.

He was also known as a man of letters.

He was a known orator and a man of letters.

John was a man of letters and an amateur philosopher.

Deacon's new career as a man of letters had begun.