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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
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
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
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
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
