Ever need a fact or quotation on perusing? Designed for speechwriters, journalists, writers, researchers, students, professors, teachers, historians, academics, scrapbookers, trivia buffs and word lovers, this is the largest book ever created for this single word. It represents a compilation from a variety of sources with a linguistic emphasis on anything relating to the term “perusing,” including non-conventional usage and alternative meanings which capture ambiguities. The entries cover all parts of speech (noun, verb, adverb or adjective usage) as well as use in modern slang, pop culture, social sciences (linguistics, history, geography, economics, sociology, political science), business, computer science, literature, law, medicine, psychology, mathematics, chemistry, physics, biology and other physical sciences. This “data dump” results in many unexpected examples for perusing, since the editorial decision to include or exclude terms is purely a linguistic process. The resulting entries are used under license or with permission, used under “fair use” conditions, used in agreement with the original authors, or are in the public domain. Proceeds from this book are used to expand the content and coverage of Webster’s Online Dictionary (www.websters-online-dictionary.org).

Familiar Quotations

Perusing – "Examiner"

Examine what is said, not him who speaks.–Arab Proverb

Perusing – "Read"

I have read many books, but the Bible reads me.–Anonymous

Take up, read! Take up, read!–Saint Augustine

When we read a story, we inhabit it. The covers of the book are like a roof and four walls. What is to happen next will take place within the four walls of the story. And this is possible because the story's voice makes everything its own.–John Berger

I read the newspaper avidly. It is my one form of continuous fiction.–Aneurin Bevan

I recently read that love is entirely a matter of chemistry. That must be why my wife treats me like toxic waste.–David Bissonette

The failure to read good books both enfeebles the vision and strengthens our most fatal tendency --the belief that the here and now is all there is.–Allan Bloom

A conventional good read is usually a bad read, a relaxing bath in what we know already. A true good read is surely an act of innovative creation in which we, the readers, become conspirators.–Malcolm Bradbury

To read without reflecting is like eating without digesting.–Edmund Burke

Reading a book is like re-writing it for yourself. You bring to a novel, anything you read, all your experience of the world. You bring your history and you read it in your own terms.–Angela Carter

• Prefaceiv
• Familiar Quotations1
• Perusing – "Examiner"1
• Perusing – "Read"1
• Use in Literature3
• Perusing3
• Perusing – "Author"11
• Perusing – "Book"12
• Perusing – "Eyes"13
• Perusing – "Hand"13
• Perusing – "Having"14
• Perusing – "Letter"15
• Perusing – "Little"17
• Perusing – "Man"18
• Perusing – "Manuscript"19
• Perusing – "Once"19
• Perusing – "Page"19
• Perusing – "Paper"20
• Perusing – "Pleased"22
• Perusing – "Read"22
• Perusing – "Reading"24
• Perusing – "Volume"25
• Perusing – "Work"25
• Perusing – "Writing"26
• Nonfiction Usage28
• Journalism Usage28
• Bibliographic Usage28
• Lexicographic Usage31
• Index37