perpend
Example Sentences
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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 Morley, Christopher
I do perpend that to earn these pieces of which you speak one must perform some worthy business.
From Robin Hood by Wyeth, N. C. (Newell Convers)
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 Motteux, Peter Anthony
Now, consider for a while, and perpend, mes enfants.
From Stalky & Co. by Kipling, Rudyard
Learn of the wise, and perpend: civet is of a baser birth than tar- the very uncleanly flux of a cat.
From The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by Shakespeare, William
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
