"Perpend" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... great and good Pinel—from hopeless misery and torture into comparative peace and comfort, and at least the possibility of cure. For children, she has done much, or rather might do, would parents read and perpend such books as Andrew Combe's and those of other writers on physical education. We should not then see the children, even of the rich, done to death piecemeal by improper food, improper clothes, neglect of ventilation and the commonest measures for preserving health. We should not ...
— Scientific Essays and Lectures • Charles Kingsley
... to be true—says he, "Thomas Cringle"—he never calls me Tom, or Mister, or Lieutenant—"Thomas Cringle," says he, "if you do that thing, you shall be damned." "Lud—a mercy," quoth I, Thomas, "I will perpend, Master Conscience" and I set myself to eschew the evil deed, with all my might. But Conscience the Younger—whom I will take leave to call by Quashie's appellative hereafter, Conshy—is a funny little fellow, and another guess sort oft a chap altogether. An instance—"I say, ...
— Tom Cringle's Log • Michael Scott
... Yesterday we were joined in same abode; * Conversing heedless of each envious friend:[FN192] Trickt us that traitor Time, disjoined our lot * And our waste home to desert fate condemned: Wouldst have me, Grumbler! from my dearling fly? * I find my vitals blame will not perpend: Cease thou to censure; leave me to repine; * My mind e'er findeth thoughts that pleasure lend. O Lords[FN193] of me who brake our troth and plight, * Deem not to lose your hold ...
— The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night, Volume 4 • Richard F. Burton |
