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Perusing   /pərˈuzɪŋ/   Listen
verb
Peruse  v. t.  (past & past part. perused; pres. part. perusing)  
1.
To observe; to examine with care. (R.) "Myself I then perused, and limb by limb Surveyed."
2.
To read through; to read carefully.





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"Perusing" Quotes from Famous Books



... to himself, went on perusing the paper more carefully. Suddenly he stopped and looked ...
— The Easiest Way - A Story of Metropolitan Life • Eugene Walter and Arthur Hornblow
... and noting every signature, he began it again, perusing it more carefully, and, gradually, a gleam of amusement crept into his eyes; his stern features relaxed, and the corners of his ...
— Katherine's Sheaves • Mrs. Georgie Sheldon
... I have not the smallest pretensions to the "rhyming art," [although in former times[14] I did venture to dabble with it] I must of necessity have recourse to Prose; and, at the same time, to your candour and forbearance in perusing the pages which ensue. ...
— Bibliomania; or Book-Madness - A Bibliographical Romance • Thomas Frognall Dibdin
... considered the hopes with which Bacon looked forward, to the future destinies of the human race as utterly chimerical, and who regarded with distrust and aversion the innovating spirit of the new schismatics in philosophy. Yet even Bodley, after perusing the Cogitata et Visa, one of the most precious of those scattered leaves out of which the great oracular volume was afterwards made up, acknowledged that in "those very points, and in all proposals and plots in that book, Bacon showed himself ...
— Critical and Historical Essays Volume 2 • Thomas Babington Macaulay
... raised her eyes anxiously to her lord's face, to see thereon an answering look of perplexity not untinged by anxiety. He was perusing a paper held ...
— The Secret Chamber at Chad • Evelyn Everett-Green


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