While preparations were making for their execution, the couriers from the governor of Meshed arrived, and the vizier, after perusing the letters, hastened to the king.
Such is the story of Abdulla of Khorassan, as given by my friend Derveesh Seffer; but the difference betweenperusing it and hearing him tell it, is that between reading a play and seeing it acted by the first performers.
The Waly was pleased to find we had, from perusing the history of Kurdistan, become acquainted with all the great families of that country, and were familiar with the names and actions of some of the most renowned of his ancestors.
He would have wanted little help from books, had he retained the power of perusing them.
In perusing the works of this race of authors, the mind is exercised either by recollection or inquiry; either something already learned is to be retrieved, or something new is to be examined.
Sir, By perusing the enclosed instructions to Colonel Laurens and myself, your Excellency will see the necessity I am under of being importunate for an answer to the application lately made for aids of stores and money.
Occleve, a little later, has no doubt as to the beneficial effects ofperusing the romances.
At this period he was engaged, as we have said, in re-perusing the works of his library, treating mainly upon profane history.
There he saw May sitting in a very deep and richly decorated chair perusing a novel, which she, since her coming out, had been taught was a beautiful source of pastime for young ladies of noble families.
Monroe, with his microscopic smile this day stretched almost into a cynical grin, so satisfied was he with his genius, was perusing page after page of complicated figures.
Before perusing this opinion, the reader should refer to the pedigree, post 441; without which the opinion will not be fully understood.
Quirk and Gammon, a good deal flustered hereat, hummed and hawed on perusing these contradictory opinions of counsel learned in the law; and the usual and proper result followed--i.
Nor was he less diligent in perusing the stores of the Academy Library.
I will myself write to Redgauntlet, and enclose Maxwell's letter, provided always you continue to desire to deliver it, after perusing the contents.
I may also solace myself the while, by perusing the works of my great master, of whose living instructions I am so unhappily deprived.
We are tempted to give our readers a share of the pleasure we have found in perusing this picture of Paris life.
The broken, jagged, paragraph style is a drawback to the pleasure ofperusing it: the notion seems to impress the author that people will not read anything elaborate, unless it be broken up into labelled paragraphs.
Should there be a few intruders whom I can not prevent from perusing my Memoirs, I must find comfort in the idea that my history was not written for them.
On perusing this explicit and positive despatch, General Don Pelagio Sandoval found himself no little embarrassed.
While he was perusing it, Don Anibal tried in vain to follow on his face the effect it produced; but the general's features seemed carved in marble, and no emotion was visible on them.
On perusing it some fifty years after it was written, Gounod made the note at the foot.
On perusing it fifty years later, Gounod made the note appended.
On perusing it fifty years later, Gounod made the note appended 83 13.
The reading and re-reading of these occupied him during the whole of breakfast-time; and Mr. Filcher found him still engaged in perusing them when he came to clear away the things.
At one of the paragraphs he broke into a gentle laugh, perusing it again and again, apparently with intense enjoyment.
Although Peter spoke in his customary deferential tones, there was a queer look upon his face that did not escape McAllister as the latter glanced up from the afternoon paper which he had been perusing in the window.
Let us suppose that you are cursorily perusing a novel which has made a great sensation, and you come upon the following sentence: "Eighteen millions of years would level all in one huge, common, shapeless ruin.
Says Coleridge, one of the foremost of English thinkers: "I believe the habit of perusing periodical works may be properly added to the catalogue of anti-mnemonics, or weakeners of the memory.
An absorbed reader of French romances sits side by side with a clergyman perusing homilies, or endeavoring to elucidate, through a mass of commentators, a special text.
He would infinitely have preferred perusing it himself; but it is impossible to argue with an intoxicated man, and so M.
On perusingthe letter a second time, it seemed to Mademoiselle Marguerite that she could hear the General and his wife discussing the means of obtaining a share of the two millions.
Men that look upon my outside, perusingonly my condition and fortunes, do err in my altitude; for I am above Atlas his shoulders.
Let the reader, while perusing them, remember that Idealism once so sovereign in its empire, is only the other pole of a line of thought which just now happens to be in the ascendant.
Briggs laid down the paper he was perusing and surveyed her with a superior air.
Upon perusing this she turned scarlet, and bit her lip.
Covertly tearing away the leaf, she crumpled it up and put it in the fire, and then employed herself in turning over the pages of the book, and, really or apparently, perusing its contents.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "perusing" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
