perpend
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I said, as soon as I have supt, I shall perpend if your proposal may Be such as I can properly accept; Provided always your great goodness still Remits the matter to our own free-will.'
From Don Juan by George Gordon Byron, Baron Byron
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
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
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
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
