pore
verb (used without object)
to read or study with steady attention or application.
Used to describe an ongoing action or state that is currently taking place in the immediate present.
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The sunset is burning redly on the wilderness of trees that I see from my window, and I am poring over my journal again, to calm my impatience for the return of the travellers.
From The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins