All 4 Uses of
peruse
in
David Copperfield
- After perusing it, I taxed Miss Spenlow with having many such letters in her possession; and ultimately obtained from her the packet which is now in David Copperfield's hand.'†
Chpt 37-39 *
- '— and then entered on the perusal of Mrs. Micawber's epistle.†
Chpt 49-51
- He sat placidly perusing the newspaper, with his little head on one side, and a glass of warm sherry negus at his elbow.†
Chpt 58-60
- 'My Dear Sir, 'Years have elapsed, since I had an opportunity of ocularly perusing the lineaments, now familiar to the imaginations of a considerable portion of the civilized world.†
Chpt 63-64
Definition:
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(peruse) to read or examine