Perusing

Examples

• They say, too, that Clym Yeobright is become a real perusing man, with the strangest notions about things. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
• The _Times_ announced to its readers that day that they were for the first time perusing a paper printed upon a machine driven by steam power. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• He sat placidly perusing the newspaper, with his little head on one side, and a glass of warm sherry negus at his elbow. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
• But it would be cruel to put the reader to the pain of perusing the remainder of this description. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
• Attentively perusing this animated volume, I was the less surprised at the tale I read on the new-turned page. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• Her Grace of Beaufort's letters to her son, which I always had the honour of perusing, were extremely eloquent on my subject. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
• Hence people who began by beholding him ended by perusing him. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
• His gentleman alone took the opportunity of perusing the newspaper before he laid it by his master's desk. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.

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