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perpend

[pur-puhnd] / ˈpɜr pənd /








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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 Ainsworth, William Harrison

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

Wherefore, reader, perpend the first "batch," and patiently await a second and a better.

From Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Vol. 3, July, 1851 by Various

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)

Read it, thou self-satisfied Mammon, and perpend; for it is both a prophecy and a doom!

From Alton Locke, Tailor and Poet An Autobiography by Hughes, Thomas