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were construing

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When other young instructors were construing Tennyson and Browning, Cross discovered a taste for the directness and raciness of Chaucer.

From Time Magazine Archive

The boys were construing the portion of Virgil which had been set them overnight.

From Soldiers of the Queen by Avery, Harold