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A farmer of the Augustan Age Perused in Virgil's golden page, The story of the secret won From Proteus by Cyrene's son— How the dank sea-god showed the swain Means to restore his hives again.

From Songs from Books by Kipling, Rudyard

Then he turned up the gas, And, with a scrutiny intent and grave, Perused my face.

From The Woman Who Dared by Sargent, Epes

Dame—by ruder cynics called The Tournament of the Dead Dignities, We gained the lists, and I, thro' humorous lens, Perused the revels.

From Rhymes of the East and Re-collected Verses by Kendall, John (AKA Dum-Dum)

I turn'd away, but, with inverted glance, Perused the fleeting shapes that fill'd my trance; Like him that feels a moment's short delight When a fine picture fleets before his sight.

From The Sonnets, Triumphs, and Other Poems of Petrarch by Campbell, Thomas

There to my vassals' ruminating throng Some total stranger, seated on a pail, Perused, translating as he went along, My private letters by the current mail.

From Rhymes of the East and Re-collected Verses by Kendall, John (AKA Dum-Dum)