Perused

Examples

• Mr. Jarndyce, he said, looking off it, you have perused this? Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• We made the money up this morning, sir, said one of the men, submissively, while the other perused Mr. Jaggers's face. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
• After a short interval envoys from China and Kao-chang were admitted and presented their despatches and credentials, which the Khan perused. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• I have perused many of their books, especially those in history and morality. Jonathan Swift. Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World.
• I have carefully perused them three times. Jonathan Swift. Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World.
• Sitting on a low stool, a few yards from her arm-chair, I examined her figure; I perused her features. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
• Mr. Helstone received and perused the document of which the contents have before been given. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• How fond she is of me, George said, as he perused the missive--and Gad, what a headache that mixed punch has given me! William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• I devoured the books they lent me: then it was full satisfaction to discuss with them in the evening what I had perused during the day. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
• These visions faded when I perused, for the first time, those poets whose effusions entranced my soul, and lifted it to heaven. Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.
• Mary perused it in silence, and returned it to her brother. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
• In short, he laid the whole volume of nature open before him, and diligently and faithfully perused it. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
• This book I had again and again perused with delight. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
• While she perused them he took his tea quietly; but though his tongue was still, his observant faculties seemed by no means off duty. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.

Edited by Karl