perpend
Example Sentences
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Write this, Bunch, and then we will perpend, as law and Judgment guides us, whether we will save or condemne.
From A Collection of Old English Plays, Volume 2 by A. H. (Arthur Henry) Bullen
I do perpend that to earn these pieces of which you speak one must perform some worthy business.
From Robin Hood by N. C. (Newell Convers) Wyeth
So I do, madonna; but to read his right wits is to read thus; therefore perpend, my princess, and give ear.
From Twelfth Night by William Shakespeare
No doubt, Tom Jones often turns out badly, but Master Blifil always does,—a fact which Mr. Abbott would do well to note and perpend.
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 05, No. 28, February, 1860 by Various
Would it not, as Henley used to say, give him much to perpend?
From An Ocean Tramp by William McFee
