perpend
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"We shall perpend the point of receiving her," replied the King, gravely.
From The Lancashire Witches A Romance of Pendle Forest by William Harrison Ainsworth
“Let the reader therefore perpend how great and what manner of man this same blessed personage was, who, having so great prophetic knowledge, could command, by invoking the name of Christ, the winds and ocean.”
From The Hermits by Charles Kingsley
Write this, Bunch, and then we will perpend, as law and Judgment guides us, whether we will save or condemne.
From A Collection of Old English Plays, Volume 2 by A. H. (Arthur Henry) Bullen
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
Therefore, to begin his work the better, he requested a learned physician of that time, called Master Theodorus, seriously to perpend, if it were possible, how to bring Gargantua into a better course.
From Gargantua and Pantagruel, Illustrated, Book 1 by Peter Anthony Motteux
