perpend

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Now, consider for a while, and perpend, mes enfants.

From Stalky & Co. by Kipling, Rudyard

“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 Kingsley, Charles

I pray, perpend, my dearest dear; While blue-eyed maids the praise were drinking, How insubstantial was their cheer— It was of yours that I was thinking!

From Chimneysmoke by Morley, Christopher

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 Motteux, Peter Anthony

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