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pore over |
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pore over something to look over something carefully. She pored over the reports, looking for errors. I need to take a few hours to pore over these contracts and see if they are ready to be signed. See also: pore 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. See also: pore How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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They pore over them on Sundays instead of studying the Holy Scriptures. 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. 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. |
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