What is "perusals"

Usage examples of "perusals".

Had I not attended daily services at the Temple, the rest of my days might have passed in pleasant anonymity and frequent perusals of a little book I had obtained at the terminus, for while my surname was so deeply of New Covenant that it could be read on a dozen headstones in the Temple graveyard, I had fled so early in life and so long ago that my individual identity had been entirely forgotten.

From his initial perusals of them, they seemed to McCain to bear out the officially published construction plans.

He had learned much about the crew of this vessel in his perusals: psychological susceptibility to the ravages of combat.