perpend
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“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
Would it not, as Henley used to say, give him much to perpend?
From An Ocean Tramp by McFee, William
If he meets with only conscripts and militia he may penetrate as far as Harrisburg, and then let Europe perpend!
From A Rebel War Clerk's Diary at the Confederate States Capital by Jones, John Beauchamp
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
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
