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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
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
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
"Lud—a mercy," quoth I, Thomas, "I will perpend, Master Conscience" and I set myself to eschew the evil deed, with all my might.
From Tom Cringle's Log by Michael Scott
“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
