All 11 Uses of
peruse
in
Jane Eyre
- This book I had again and again perused with delight.†
Chpt 3 *
- I closed the book, which I dared no longer peruse, and put it on the table, beside the untasted tart.†
Chpt 3
- Sitting on a low stool, a few yards from her arm-chair, I examined her figure; I perused her features.†
Chpt 4
- I saw a girl sitting on a stone bench near; she was bent over a book, on the perusal of which she seemed intent: from where I stood I could see the title — it was "Rasselas;" a name that struck me as strange, and consequently attractive.†
Chpt 5
- I suppose he had considered that these were all the governess would require for her private perusal; and, indeed, they contented me amply for the present; compared with the scanty pickings I had now and then been able to glean at Lowood, they seemed to offer an abundant harvest of entertainment and information.†
Chpt 11
- And while she broke the seal and perused the document, I went on taking my coffee (we were at breakfast): it was hot, and I attributed to that circumstance a fiery glow which suddenly rose to my face.†
Chpt 17
- It was a wet and windy afternoon: Georgiana had fallen asleep on the sofa over the perusal of a novel; Eliza was gone to attend a saint's-day service at the new church — for in matters of religion she was a rigid formalist: no weather ever prevented the punctual discharge of what she considered her devotional duties; fair or foul, she went to church thrice every Sunday, and as often on week-days as there were prayers.†
Chpt 21
- Mr. St. John — sitting as still as one of the dusty pictures on the walls, keeping his eyes fixed on the page he perused, and his lips mutely sealed — was easy enough to examine.†
Chpt 29
- I devoured the books they lent me: then it was full satisfaction to discuss with them in the evening what I had perused during the day.†
Chpt 30
- Mary perused it in silence, and returned it to her brother.†
Chpt 30
- So I snuffed the candle and resumed the perusal of "Marmion."†
Chpt 33
Definition:
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(peruse) to read or examine