Both Uses of
peruse
in
Catch-22
- The floor swayed like the floating raft at the beach and the stitches on the inside of his thigh bit into his flesh like fine sets of fish teeth as he limped across the aisle to peruse the name on the temperature card on the foot of Dunbar's bed, but sure enough, Dunbar was right: he was not Dunbar any more but Second Lieutenant Anthony F. Fortiori.†
Chpt 26
- 'What are you shushing him for?' asked Kid Sampson, peeling a tangerine with his front teeth as he perused the dog-eared pages of a comic book.†
Chpt 28 *
Definition:
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(peruse) to read or examine