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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
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
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
He wooes both high and low, both rich and poor, Both young and old, one with another, Ford; He loves the gallimaufry: Ford, perpend.
From The Merry Wives of Windsor The Works of William Shakespeare [Cambridge Edition] [9 vols.] by Glover, John, librarian of Trinity College, Cambridge
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
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
