Pored
[pɔ:d]
Definition
(imp. & p. p.) of Pore
Checker: Sylvia
Examples
- She approached her face to the palm, and pored over it without touching it. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- For twenty minutes he pored over them, when suddenly they commenced to take familiar though distorted shapes. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
- I pored over the poetry of old times; I studied the metaphysics of Plato and Berkeley. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- He fell foul of him because men, instead of facing facts boldly, sat in rooms and pored over bad Latin translations of the master. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- We have in vain pored over the leaves of Mr. Pickwick's note-book, in the hope of meeting with a general summary of these beautiful compositions. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
Checker: Sylvia