perpend
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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 Shakespeare, William
To this, great chief, thy reason bend, And earnestly the truth perpend.
From The Rámáyan of Válmíki, translated into English verse by Griffith, Ralph T. H. (Ralph Thomas Hotchkin)
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 Sabatini, Rafael
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 Shakespeare, William
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 Jones, John Beauchamp
