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I said, as soon as I have supt, I shall perpend if your proposal may Be such as I can properly accept; Provided always your great goodness still Remits the matter to our own free-will.'

From Don Juan by Byron, George Gordon Byron, Baron

No doubt, Tom Jones often turns out badly, but Master Blifil always does,—a fact which Mr. Abbott would do well to note and perpend.

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 05, No. 28, February, 1860 by Various

I do perpend that to earn these pieces of which you speak one must perform some worthy business.

From Robin Hood by Wyeth, N. C. (Newell Convers)

So I do, madonna; but to read his right wits is to read     thus; therefore perpend, my Princess, and give ear.

From Twelfth Night; or What You Will by Shakespeare, William

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