Lexicographical Neighbors of Pertook
Literary usage of Pertook
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Select Collection of Old English Plays by Robert Dodsley, William Carew Hazlitt (1874)
"MORDRED. They that conspire in faults offend alike: Crime makes them equal, whom
it jointly stains. If for my sake you then pertook my guilt, ..."
2. Ohio in the Time of the Confederation by John Mathews (1918)
"... and pertook in the pleasures of the Evening Tuesday 26th a fine day wind
westwardly This morning ..."
3. Liverpool as it was During the Last Quarter of the Eighteenth Century by Richard Brooke (1863)
"(1) Gore's General Advertiser of 23rd September, 1784. It is pretty clear from
the characters mentioned, that the entertainment pertook more of the nature ..."
4. The Complete Works of Artemus Ward: (Charles Farrar Browne) by Artemus Ward (1898)
"... that we et hay over there, and had horns growin out of the back part of our
heads— but his chops and beer is ekul to any I ever pertook. ..."
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