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  • On a re-perusal, however, he thought that, amid its incoherence, he could discover something like a tone of awakened passion, though expressed in a manner quaint and unusual.

    The Heart of Mid-Lothian 2007

  • In short, I thought it, on re-perusal, a half-distracted one: but I then despaired, (were I to begin again,) of writing better: so I let it go: and can have no excuse for directing it as I did, if the cause of the incoherence in it will not furnish me with a very pitiable one.

    Clarissa Harlowe 2006

  • And how, my dearest friend, after this rhapsody, which on re-perusal, I would not let go, but to show you what a distracted mind dictates to my trembling pen!

    Clarissa Harlowe 2006

  • But I see that, on every re-perusal, I shall love and honour you still more, if possible, than before.

    Clarissa Harlowe 2006

  • I gave it the honour of a re-perusal; and this revived the subject with me, with which I had resolved not to trust myself.

    Clarissa Harlowe 2006

  • The Captain insisted upon this re-perusal previously to what she had to say to him, as he tells me.

    Clarissa Harlowe 2006

  • On re-perusal, these letters appear to contain views of English life and impressions of English notabilities which, as the views and impressions of an Englishman on his return to his native country after an absence of twenty years, may not be without interest to the English reader.

    MacMillan & Co.'s General Catalogue of Works in the Departments of History, Biography, Travels, and Belles Lettres, December, 1869 Unknown

  • The following ode to a Cigar is no doubt familiar to many, yet will pay a re-perusal:

    Tobacco; Its History, Varieties, Culture, Manufacture and Commerce E. R. Billings

  • The other stories seem to me to be most of them upon a duller plane, and the chief impression produced by a re-perusal of them is one of no little perplexity that a pen which had only just left off from writing Castle Rackrent should have been able to turn – to all appearances with equal satisfaction – to the production of Forester, or of The Prussian Vase.

    Maria Edgeworth 1905

  • Will “Fifine” and poems of its kind stand re-reading, re-perusal over and over?

    Life of Robert Browning Sharp, William, 1855-1905 1897

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