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- verb Present participle of
reperuse .
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Examples
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On reperusing the letter, she could not help observing the staggering and unsatisfactory condition of those who have risen to distinction by undue paths, and the outworks and bulwarks of fiction and falsehood, by which they are under the necessity of surrounding and defending their precarious advantages.
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My vengeance is uppermost; for I have been reperusing some of Miss
Clarissa Harlowe 2006
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After perusing it and reperusing it, he made suitable reply.
Hung Lou Meng 2003
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"She frequently took them up and kissed them; and at length requested them to be placed at the foot of her bed, where she might constantly see them," and anticipating a revival which was not to be, of the delight she should feel in reperusing them, she said often to her mother, "what a feast I shall have by-and-bye."
The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 14, No. 400, November 21, 1829 Various
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After perusing it and reperusing it, he made suitable reply.
Hung Lou Meng, Book I Or, the Dream of the Red Chamber, a Chinese Novel in Two Books Xueqin Cao
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I found in incessantly reperusing him, cured me in some measure of the romance madness; and I soon came to prefer Agesilaus, Brutus, and Aristides, to Orondates, Artemenes, and Juba.
Classic French Course in English William Cleaver Wilkinson
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She was engaged one day, as she walked, in reperusing Janes last letter, and dwelling on some passages which proved that Jane had not written in spirits, when, instead of being again surprised by Mr. Darcy, she saw, on looking up, that Colonel Fitzwilliam was meeting her.
Chapter XXXIII 1917
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"If this continues I shall lose my mind," murmured Durtal as he sat in front of his table reperusing the letters which he had been receiving from that woman for the last week.
Là-bas Keene [Translator] Wallace 1877
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He even promised that he would virtually spend a week indoors, desirous as he was of reperusing certain books, certain pages of Rome's history.
The Three Cities Trilogy: Rome, Volume 3 ��mile Zola 1871
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He even promised that he would virtually spend a week indoors, desirous as he was of reperusing certain books, certain pages of Rome's history.
The Three Cities Trilogy, Complete Lourdes, Rome and Paris ��mile Zola 1871
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