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perpend

[pur-puhnd] / ˈpɜr pənd /








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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

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

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

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

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