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"Perusing" Quotes from Famous Books

... that a girl like her should be reading a book of detective tales. She was the sort of a girl he would have expected to see perusing love stories of the ...

— Frank Merriwell's Bravery • Burt L. Standish

... the waiter had retired I took a second glass of the wine, which I found excellent; and, observing a newspaper lying near me, I took it up and began perusing it. It has been observed somewhere that people who are in the habit of reading newspapers every day are not unfrequently struck with the excellence of style and general talent which they display. Now, if that be the case, how must I have been surprised, who was reading a newspaper ...

— Lavengro - The Scholar, The Gypsy, The Priest • George Borrow

... asked what there might be about him that so forcibly suggested the Grand Inquisitor. Kitty, cigarette in hand, with half-shut eyes, did not answer immediately. She seemed to be perusing his ...

— The Marriage of William Ashe • Mrs. Humphry Ward

... often think, on perusing your very valuable journal of science, and the numerous mechanical and scientific problems it unfolds, that the tendency of the age is to supersede all manual labor by machinery. Whether such a thing is possible is not the question for me to consider; I only know ...

— Scientific American, Vol.22, No. 1, January 1, 1870 • Various

... an ingenious observation made by a journalist of Trevoux, on perusing a criticism not ill written, which pretended to detect several faults in the compositions of Bruyere, that in ancient Rome the great men who triumphed amidst the applauses of those who celebrated their virtues, were at the same time compelled to listen to those who reproached them with ...

— Curiosities of Literature, Vol. 1 (of 3) • Isaac D'Israeli

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