All 7 Uses of
peruse
in
Wuthering Heights
- I blushed at my inconsideration: but, without showing further consciousness of the offence, I hastened to add — 'The truth is, sir, I passed the first part of the night in — ' Here I stopped afresh — I was about to say 'perusing those old volumes,' then it would have revealed my knowledge of their written, as well as their printed, contents; so, correcting myself, I went on — 'in spelling over the name scratched on that window-ledge.†
Chpt 3
- As soon as I had perused this epistle I went to the master, and informed him that his sister had arrived at the Heights, and sent me a letter expressing her sorrow for Mrs. Linton's situation, and her ardent desire to see him; with a wish that he would transmit to her, as early as possible, some token of forgiveness by me.†
Chpt 14
- She lifted the letter, and seemed to peruse it; and when she came to the signature she sighed: yet still I found she had not gathered its import, for, upon my desiring to hear her reply, she merely pointed to the name, and gazed at me with mournful and questioning eagerness.†
Chpt 15
- I went round by the garden, and laid wait for the messenger; who fought valorously to defend his trust, and we spilt the milk between us; but I succeeded in abstracting the epistle; and, threatening serious consequences if he did not look sharp home, I remained under the wall and perused Miss Cathy's affectionate composition.†
Chpt 21
- We were in the library, the master having gone to bed: she consented, rather unwillingly, I fancied; and imagining my sort of books did not suit her, I bid her please herself in the choice of what she perused.†
Chpt 24
- Catherine caught and perused it eagerly; then she put a few questions to me concerning the inmates, rational and irrational, of her former home; and gazing towards the hills, murmured in soliloquy: 'I should like to be riding Minny down there!†
Chpt 31
- She placed one she had been perusing on his hand; he flung it off, and muttered, if she did not give over, he would break her neck.†
Chpt 32 *
Definition:
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(peruse) to read or examine