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A farmer of the Augustan Age Perused in Virgil's golden page, The story of the secret won From Proteus by Cyrene's son— How the dank sea-god showed the swain Means to restore his hives again.

From Songs from Books by Kipling, Rudyard

I turn'd away, but, with inverted glance, Perused the fleeting shapes that fill'd my trance; Like him that feels a moment's short delight When a fine picture fleets before his sight.

From The Sonnets, Triumphs, and Other Poems of Petrarch by Campbell, Thomas

There to my vassals' ruminating throng Some total stranger, seated on a pail, Perused, translating as he went along, My private letters by the current mail.

From Rhymes of the East and Re-collected Verses by Kendall, John (AKA Dum-Dum)

Dame—by ruder cynics called The Tournament of the Dead Dignities, We gained the lists, and I, thro' humorous lens, Perused the revels.

From Rhymes of the East and Re-collected Verses by Kendall, John (AKA Dum-Dum)

Then he turned up the gas, And, with a scrutiny intent and grave, Perused my face.

From The Woman Who Dared by Sargent, Epes