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pore over something

to look at and carefully study a document. She spends a lot of time poring over the historical records of the church.

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They pore over them on Sundays instead of studying the Holy Scriptures. Anne's House of Dreams by Montgomery, Lucy Maud View in context There she beheld another countenance, of a man well stricken in years, a pale, thin, scholar-like visage, with eyes dim and bleared by the lamp-light that had served them to pore over many ponderous books. The Scarlet Letter by Hawthorne, Nathaniel View in context And then I tell her, I am sure she would contrive to make it out herself, if she had nobody to do it for her every word of itI am sure she would pore over it till she had made out every word. Emma by Austen, Jane View in context More results

References in classic literature

They pore over them on Sundays instead of studying the Holy Scriptures.

Anne's House of Dreams by Montgomery, Lucy Maud View in context

There she beheld another countenance, of a man well stricken in years, a pale, thin, scholar-like visage, with eyes dim and bleared by the lamp-light that had served them to pore over many ponderous books.

The Scarlet Letter by Hawthorne, Nathaniel View in context

And then I tell her, I am sure she would contrive to make it out herself, if she had nobody to do it for her every word of itI am sure she would pore over it till she had made out every word.

Emma by Austen, Jane View in context

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