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Example sentences for "perused"

Lexicographically close words:
peruke; perukes; perusal; perusall; peruse; peruses; perusing; pervade; pervaded; pervades
  1. Have re-perused them with great pleasure, and found many new beauties in them.

  2. Thugut only perused what he believed to be worth the trouble of being read, and to the remainder he paid no attention whatever.

  3. He then took the king's letter from his side-pocket and perused it once more.

  4. Stepping into a bay window, he perused the letter with slow, deliberate glances.

  5. While these volumes must prove of great value to the maritime profession, to the geographer, and to emigrants, they cannot fail to be perused with interest by readers in general.

  6. Meanwhile the four letters were being opened and perused critically.

  7. But on the other hand the eyes of the keybearer perused with evident longing every salver and decanter.

  8. The Abbot perused him with his eyes thoughtfully for a moment.

  9. He went up to them and attentively perused their structure and arrangement, though they appeared to have been thrown together at random.

  10. No one, who has not perused this book, would believe how often he defaces Orlandi in presuming to correct him; multiplying artists for every little difference with which authors wrote the name of the same man.

  11. Mac-Morlan perused it with eyes that sparkled with delight, snapped his fingers repeatedly, and at length exclaimed, 'Available!

  12. Dinmont internally paid the same compliment to Brown, whose athletic form he now perused somewhat more at leisure than he had done formerly.

  13. He therefore advanced with three profound congees, and craved permission to lay his credentials at the feet of the Scottish monarch, in order to be perused at his best leisure.

  14. He put the papers into her hand, which she perused very carefully, often taking off her spectacles to cast her eyes up to heaven, or perhaps to wipe a tear from them, for young Hazlewood was an especial favourite with the good dame.

  15. And I remember that I perused it, gulped it down, with deep joy.

  16. Fritter writes very powerfully on our publishing situation in this number; and his article should not only be perused with attention, but heeded with sincerity and industriousness.

  17. The editorial on "Miss United" is very well written, and should be carefully perused by those in danger of succumbing to the autumnal advances of that sour old maid, Miss National.

  18. I thought of the many fanciful and graceful poems so often perused with pleasure, written by Mr. Spencer amid the brilliant fêtes in which he formerly passed his nights, and where he often found his inspirations.

  19. Without arrogating to myself the pretension of a critic, I should be unjust if I did not acknowledge that I have perused many a French novel by modern authors, from which I have derived interest and pleasure.

  20. MY DEAR SIR: I perused and re-perused the beautiful note which you placed in my hands as I was about leaving Washington, with deeper emotion than I have ever experienced, except under some domestic vicissitude.

  21. I have perused with particular interest the last numbers of the Magazine and am glad to note an encouraging improvement in its management, its style, its general presentation and the nature and number of its articles.

  22. My well-beloved friends: The numerous communications which your distinguished Secretary has lately addressed on your behalf to the Greatest Holy Leaf and myself, have been eagerly perused and their contents carefully noted.

  23. But softly, gentle fair one; I pray you throw it not aside till you have perused the whole; mayhap you may find something therein to repay you for the trouble.

  24. Mademoiselle eyed the unsuspecting Charlotte, as she perused the letter, with a malignant pleasure.

  25. Then let her meet her fate,'--so ran his thoughts when he had perused the cold note, unassociable with the Adela he imagined in its bald formality.

  26. There were not wanting disaffected brethren, who perused these appeals with satisfaction.

  27. Richard perused his composition several times, and sent it to the post.

  28. Woellner perused the epistle with a slightly tremulous voice, stopping now and then, at an illegible word, which his master quickly supplied to him, finishing the sentence as correctly as if he held the writing in his hand.

  29. Thusnelda, after having hastily perused the contents of the ducal missive.

  30. And reverently he handed her the letter of his old dead benefactor, silently watching her face as she perused its contents.

  31. Sir John Benton's fierce, lined face softened for an instant as he perused his son's missive, but it grew darker and drearier than ever before he had read it through.

  32. These works, so far as I have perused them, are exceedingly obscure, and in various places unintelligible.

  33. Thus Scaliger informs us that he perused a Greek manuscript of Zosimus, the Panapolite, written in the fifth century, and deposited in the King of France’s library.

  34. Chicholm went up to the window, at which he continued standing till he had perused the whole Greek page thus exposed to his view.

  35. She leaned her little chin on her hand, and her eyes perused the face of her companion.

  36. The eyes of each perused the other's face.

  37. She pushed him away, and, holding him, perused his handsome, scornful face, and all the manly strength of form and attitude.

  38. If the answer were in the affirmative, the volume immediately assumed, in my eyes, a new value, and was perused with far greater interest than a story merely fictitious.

  39. Several young persons who had perused the little work, united in begging it might be printed, that they also might have it in their libraries.

  40. I perused it and licensed it for the theatre at S.


  41. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "perused" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.