They were developed out of necessity in 1994, to allow a browser to peruse pages at a web server while maintaining a continuous session.
For decades, suburban housewives could peruse pages of flashy advertisements for Bayer Heroin, the cure for sore throats, coughs, headaches, diarrhea, stress and menopause.
Go and peruse page upon page of closed eyes or devil-red irises, gormless unprepared expressions, sallow skin, spam arms, yellow teeth and thumbs obscuring the lens.
Davis perused page after page of guest lists earlier this week in a bungalow at the Beverly Hills Hotel, where he conducts business when he's in Los Angeles.
It was exciting for her to peruse the pages in search of inspiration, and dog-ear the pages of her favorite dresses and hairstyles.
I can never simply discard them, feeling an obligation to peruse their pages to discover what it is that they are offering.
As you peruse the pages describing the highlighted topics in Area IV, you will see key subjects listed that contain elements of that particular topic.
These tomes -- gorgeous, seductive nonbooks -- are mostly oversize, packed with pictures, and the people who crowd into the shop peruse their pages in ways altogether different, it seems, from "true" readers.
While MySpace is adding as many as a million registered users each week who create or peruse Web pages of other members, sharing photos, blogs and such, it has so far attracted little advertising revenue relative to its audience size.
Anyone visiting the library's reading room can now peruse these pages, along with the first draft of Ballard's semi-autobiographical "Empire of the Sun", and his school reports and letters.The appeal of such relics is partly the "magical value" of the thing itself, as poet Philip Larkin termed it, and partly the chance to understand authors and their work better.
Just peruse the pages of GQ and Esquire -- do you see any of those models with their suit pants cuffed?
