perpend
Example Sentences
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If he meets with only conscripts and militia he may penetrate as far as Harrisburg, and then let Europe perpend!
From A Rebel War Clerk's Diary at the Confederate States Capital by John Beauchamp Jones
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
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
I pray, perpend, my dearest dear; While blue-eyed maids the praise were drinking, How insubstantial was their cheer— It was of yours that I was thinking!
From Chimneysmoke by Christopher Morley
Would it not, as Henley used to say, give him much to perpend?
From An Ocean Tramp by William McFee
