perpend
Example Sentences
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Now, consider for a while, and perpend, mes enfants.
From Stalky & Co. by Rudyard Kipling
Would it not, as Henley used to say, give him much to perpend?
From An Ocean Tramp by William McFee
Without putting ourselves to any stir or trouble in the least, quoth Pantagruel, let us maturely and seriously consider and perpend the gestures and speech which he hath made and uttered.
From Gargantua and Pantagruel, Illustrated, Book 3 by Peter Anthony Motteux
Wherefore, most selected friend, perpend at thy leisure, and so God speed thee!
From The Letters of Charles Dickens Vol. 1, 1833-1856 by Georgina Hogarth
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
