perpend
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Will you keep me in the rain till daylight whilst you perpend how late I ride?
From Bardelys the Magnificent; being an account of the strange wooing pursued by the Sieur Marcel de Saint-Pol, marquis of Bardelys... by Rafael Sabatini
To this, great chief, thy reason bend, And earnestly the truth perpend.
From The Rámáyan of Válmíki, translated into English verse by Ralph T. H. (Ralph Thomas Hotchkin) Griffith
Therefore, to begin his work the better, he requested a learned physician of that time, called Master Theodorus, seriously to perpend, if it were possible, how to bring Gargantua into a better course.
From Gargantua and Pantagruel, Illustrated, Book 1 by Peter Anthony Motteux
“Let the reader therefore perpend how great and what manner of man this same blessed personage was, who, having so great prophetic knowledge, could command, by invoking the name of Christ, the winds and ocean.”
From The Hermits by Charles Kingsley
Pray perpend, pronounce, and don't be offended with either.
From Life of Lord Byron, Vol. 3 With His Letters and Journals by Thomas Moore
