How To Use Perish In A Sentence

  • But of time and of becoming shall the best similes speak: a praise shall they be, and a justification of all perishableness! Thus spake Zarathustra; A book for all and none
  • I might have understood how clumsy I was, when I was rearing my children in the most utter idleness and luxury, to reform other people and their children, who were perishing from idleness in what I called the den of the Rzhanoff house, where, nevertheless, three-fourths of the people toil for themselves and for others. What to Do?
  • But what is wonderful about him - what saves him, glorifies him and makes him special - is the imperishable cultural truth that you can take a Frenchman out of France but you cannot take France out of a Frenchman.
  • What is called effluxion is a destruction of the embryo within the first week, while abortion occurs up to the fortieth day; and the greater number of such embryos as perish do so within the space of these forty days. The History of Animals
  • I've fought over every hinch o 'this perishin' country, an 'tyke it from me, guv'nor, there ain't Jimgrim and Allah's Peace
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  • Thousands of people perished in the earthquake.
  • The government of the people, by the people, and for the people shall not perish from the earth. 
  • Being so close to the Pacific means that the weather can be dicey: perishing cold, low cloud and sudden thaws on the lower slopes.
  • The race of mankind would perish did they cease to aid each other. We cannot exist without mutual help. All, therefore, that need aid have a right to ask it from their fellow men; and no one who has the power of granting can refuse it without guilt. Seneca 
  • High in the Alps is a monument raised in honour of a faithful guide who perished while ascending a peak to rescue a stranded tourist.
  • Seven astronauts perished when hot exhaust gas leaked from one of the booster rockets, destroying the vehicle less than two minutes into the flight.
  • They are afraid that their party will perish as they risk losing the support of both the ‘deep blue’ and pro-localization factions.
  • Those who have courage and faith shall never perish in misery. Anne Frank 
  • With the focus, by and large, turning to door delivery, in the case of consumer durables as well as perishables, the location factor has been obscured.
  • He says it pains him to see workers at the store throw out unsold perishables like roasted chicken at the end of the night. Grocery Store Workers Go On Hunger Strike Over Stagnant Wages
  • I have as little superstition in me as any man living, but my secret opinion has ever been, and still is, that God Almighty will not give up a people to military destruction, or leave them unsupportedly to perish, who have so earnestly and so repeatedly sought to avoid the calamities of war, by every decent method which wisdom could invent. First Open Thread-- What's on your mind? Log in and add your comments
  • I grandthinked after his obras after another time about the itch in his egondoom he was legging boldylugged from some pulversporochs and lyoking for a stool-eazy for to nemesisplotsch allafranka and for to salubrate himself with an ultradungs heavenly mass at his base by a suprime pomp-ship chorams the perished popes, the reverend and allaverred cromlecks, and when I heard his lewdbrogue reciping his cheap cheateary gospeds to sintry and santry and sentry and suntry I thought he was only haftara having afterhis brokeforths but be the homely Churopodvas I no sooner seen aghist of his frighte-ousness then I was bibbering with vear a few versets off fooling for fjorg for my fifth foot. Finnegans Wake
  • Inside were all of the perishable food items along with a flagon of milk.
  • While you work, pack perishables in an insulated cooler or a container lined with ice packs.
  • Staff have organised two trolley loads of perishable food for the hospice and Santa will be picking up the presents.
  • Kolyma Tales" derives its name from the region in Russia's far northeast that played host to a vast forced labor complex, in which hundreds of thousands at least perished. A World Behind Barbed Wire
  • Construction was difficult and carried on throughout the perishing winters as well.
  • It was generally believed, too, when I first yarned to people, that some of those who had fled had perished of exhaustion and thirst.
  • But the city folk constituted a new and terrible destructive force, the equilibrium was overthrown, and the poppies well-nigh perished. The Golden Poppy
  • Inarus, the author of the revolt, was betrayed, and perished on the cross, and the whole of Egypt once more succumbed to the Persian yoke, save only that portion called the marshy or fenny parts (under the dominion of a prince named Amyrtaeus), protected by the nature of the soil and the proverbial valour of the inhabitants. Athens: Its Rise and Fall, Complete
  • This will be the position provided the goods perished before any had been delivered to the buyer.
  • But there were so many chances against them in all these cases, such as storms, to overset and founder them; rains and cold, to benumb and perish their limbs; contrary winds, to keep them out and starve them; that it must have been next to miraculous if they had escaped. The Further Adventures Of Robinson Crusoe
  • The government of the people, by the people, and for the people shall not perish from the earth. 
  • I belong to a generation of kinless childhoods, where we grew up without grandparents, numerous uncles, aunts, cousins and relatives who had perished, yet whose silent presence loomed in the background.
  • Long are the "times" of Heaven: the orbits of angel messengers seem wide to mortal vision; they may enring ages: the cycle of one departure and return may clasp unnumbered generations; and dust, kindling to brief suffering life, and through pain, passing back to dust, may meanwhile perish out of memory again, and yet again. Villette
  • More than 50 million soldiers and civilians perished in the Second World War.
  • The reason why by polygamical marriages among Christians the marriage of the Lord and the church is profaned, is, because there is a correspondence between that divine marriage and the marriages of Christians; concerning which, see above, n. 83-102; which correspondence entirely perishes, if one wife is joined to another; and when it perishes, the married man is no longer a The Delights of Wisdom Pertaining to Conjugial Love
  • Her father had suffered and perished because of a dream this man Buddenbaum had sown in his heart. EVERVILLE
  • And as for those Greek words anastenai and egei'rein, they endeavour to shew, by other like places of scripture, that they signify no more than the bare suscitation, raising, or giving being to a thing, without its having fallen or perished before. Sermons Preached Upon Several Occasions. Vol. III.
  • To reign until a filthier scoundrel than he arises; then he perishes and in his place the leather-seller appears, the Paphlagonian robber, the bawler, who roars like a torrent. The Knights
  • The gospel is incensed to signify the sweet odour which it communicates to our souls; and the ministers of God, to signify, according to St. Thomas, that God maketh manifest _the odour_ of his knowledge by us in every place: "For we are unto God _the good odour_ of Christ in them who are saved, and in them who perish". The Ceremonies of the Holy-Week at Rome
  • The heavy rain perished all the crops.
  • Cops launched a probe after the birds perished along a two-mile semirural stretch near homes. The Sun
  • Look around you for pictures that you really like, and in buying which you can help some genius yet unperished -- that is the best atonement you can make to the one you have neglected -- and give to the living and struggling painter at once wages, and testimonial. A Joy For Ever (And Its Price in the Market)
  • Because it is 'perishable' - generally reaching peak maturity after 25 years before declining This is Money | Home
  • Unable to even screech before the veil of death fell upon her, Solokar perished instantly, rivulets of green ichor spraying from her wounds.
  • They are infinite, I am thinking, all these hungry, grasping people chasing after the new and improved, the super and imperishable, and I stand alone against them - but that's the kind of thinking that led me astray all those years ago.
  • Occasionally she even demonstrates some viperish spirit, as when she traded insults with another model.
  • And is his love so imperishable that, when others deal treacherously with us, he never fails to be loyal?
  • The seal on the bottle has perished.
  • Perishable and temperature sensitive goods will be transported provided that the shipper accepts that this is at its risk.
  • The other four perish or are murdered on the way, so that the thirty thousand annually exported, as stated by Sir Bartle Frere, represents a loss of 150,000 human beings _annually_ from the east coast alone, altogether irrespective of the enormous and constant flow of slaves to the north by way of the White Nile and Egypt. Black Ivory
  • We talked to some authorities here, and they say it just -- "disintegrated" was the word they used, that mobile home community, where as many as eight people have perished as a result. CNN Transcript Nov 17, 2006
  • Those who perish in the upcoming swine flu pandemic will, at least, be spared the horrors of the geomagnetic apocalypse. Apocalypse 2012 « Gerry Canavan
  • The sauce / soup packet is quite impressive in it's heft and the fact that it's sludge-like and most-likely perishable, which is why the product is sold frozen. Guilty Carnivore
  • We found her boat, in pieces on the shore, and I thought she had perished in a violent storm crossing the ocean.
  • The race of mankind would perish did they cease to aid each other. We cannot exist without mutual help. All, therefore, that need aid have a right to ask it from their fellow men; and no one who has the power of granting can refuse it without guilt. Seneca 
  • Melodies are left unattended to wither and die in the heat of the lights, and perish they almost inevitably do.
  • Much of the work from the silent era has perished or been lost to future generations.
  • Sedition has, at last, countermined itself, and conspiracy we have seen in effect perishing by its own excesses. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 54, No. 337, November, 1843
  • Yet, even in the midst of all this, the same dark thoughts had presented themselves; the perishableness of myself and all around me every instant recurred to my mind. The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 10, No. 262, July 7, 1827
  • Shrimp is highly perishable, which is why most shrimp is flash-frozen and held in speculation to be released as needed, he said. JSOnline.com
  • A private man, however successful in his own dealing, if his country perish is involved in her destruction; but if he be an unprosperous citizen of a prosperous city, he is much more likely to recover.
  • No one was more grief-stricken by Lincoln's assassination than Stanton, who spoke the imperishable words as the president breathed his last: ‘Now he belongs to the ages.’
  • But a few less lucky aquanauts - 13 to be exact - have perished on the wreck in the last 20 years since it became accessible to recreational divers, five within the past three years.
  • The governmet of the people, by the people, and for the poeple shall not perish from the earth. 
  • All the perishable food would have to be eaten the first day since the fridge had no electricity.
  • Here the idea that God does not wish for any to perish speaks only of God's desiderative will, without comment on his decretive will.
  • And there’s the stuff you don’t get from the post office fellows: arms, chemical precursors to hallucinogenic substances, certain perishables. Matthew Yglesias » By Request: Five Days of Mail
  • And if they will perish, let them perish with our arms around their knees, imploring them to stay.
  • That Lincoln suspended habeas corpus, jailed 20,000 people without charges, forcibly shut down hundreds of newspapers that criticized him, and sent in federal troops to shut down state legislatures was irrelevant because he proclaimed “that this nation shall have a new birth of freedom, and that government of the people, by the people, for the people shall not perish from the earth.” #200 for Abe the Warmonger « Antiwar.com Blog
  • We are not talking imperishable masterpieces of the glyptic art.
  • This man was naked, powerfully muscled and of a copperish red rather than brown. People of the Dark
  • He and Lady Charlotte both tragically perished in a great fire at the temple today.
  • Thousands of caribou perished in just the first year of this dam.
  • What better could I have done in the smoky warmth of our hearth-fire than to con, by the light of the electric bulb dangling overhead, its annals in some such voluntarily quaint and unconsciously old-fashioned volume as Irving’s Legends of the Conquest of Spain; or to read in some such (if there is any such other) imperishably actual and unfadingly brilliant record of impressions as Gautier’s Familiar Spanish Travels
  • I question whether all the officers of the royal navy can bring together, from all their journals, a collection of so many wonderful escapes as this man has known upon the Thames, on which he has been a thousand and a thousand times on the point of perishing, sometimes by the terrours of foolish women in the same boat, sometimes by his own acknowledged imprudence in passing the river in the dark, and sometimes by shooting the bridge under which he has rencountered mountainous waves, and dreadful cataracts. The Rambler, sections 55-112 (1750-1751); from The Works of Samuel Johnson in Sixteen Volumes, Vol. IV
  • Both parties deprecated war, but one of them would ‘make’ war rather than let the nation survive, and the other would ‘accept’ war rather than let it perish, and the war came.
  • His words come vividly to mind in reviewing the curious catalogue which a European statistician lately furnished of the number of sovereigns who have perished by violent deaths or been discrowned by disaster. Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 11, No. 24, March, 1873
  • In 1614 Hideyori fortified himself inside Osaka castle with over 100,000 troops, many of whom were ronin, dispossessed samurai whose masters had perished in battle.
  • The house was razed and both daughters, aged 4 and 6, perished in the blaze.
  • Oh, Fernand; this may not be; and thou canst purchase the power to bestow unperishing youth, unchanging beauty upon me; the power, moreover, to transport us hence, and render us happy in inseparable companionship for long, long years to come. Wagner, the Wehr-Wolf
  • You can't sell perishable fresh and frozen foods unless households have refrigerators.
  • My mother, sister, and other brother had perished of malnutrition, starvation, and illness, and my father had been murdered.
  • I thought that the only thing that could destroy my serenity was being hungry, so I went back to the supermarket and started loading up carts with non perishable food.
  • Nay, we hurl the Truth against falsehood, and it knocks out its brain, and behold, falsehood doth perish!
  • Only four of those who perished on the claustrophobic clifftop almost exactly a year ago were granted the opportunity to exorcise those memories on the wide open spaces of Mount Florida.
  • Also, the loss of perishable foods may skew data on restaurant sales and grocery store receipts.
  • For those two have perished by the fate they have met with; but among our host are steersmen yet, and many a one. The Argonautica
  • But for the exertions of the police in extinguishing the flames, made while the mob were pelting them with missiles, all the factory hands would have perished. Foreign and Colonial News
  • Not that professional hit men write a lot of perishing family notes. SUMMER OF SECRETS
  • The ancient rabbinic text, the Mishnah, states: "A single man was created in the world, to teach that if any man has caused a single soul to perish, scripture imputes it to him as if he had caused a whole world to perish, and if any man saves alive a single soul, scripture imputes it to him as if he had saved alive a whole world... Rabbi Jack Bemporad: An Open Letter To Congress From Leaders of the Faith Community: Don't Cut Foreign Aid!
  • Further emphasizing the same truth Sri Krishna repeats, ‘The atman is imperishable, and it pervades the whole universe.’
  • To whom the prince said: Demean thee not disordinately, lest thou perish by grievous death. The Golden Legend, vol. 7
  • Her love for him, however, had slowly perished throughout the years of their marriage.
  • Except the dry leaves, they leave all vegetation to grow and perish in the field itself to enrich the soil.
  • If we perish, it will not be of failure or finitude but of breathless, bright-eyed idealists for whom the sky's the limit.
  • I have cracked marrow-bones on the sites of kingly cities that had perished centuries before my time or that were destined to be builded centuries after my passing. Chapter 21
  • It is expected to handle 900,000 tonnes of perishables daily.
  • And on that monument, as all know, is inscribed in imperishable bronze the prophecy and the Fulfillment: 'All will be joy-smiths, and their task shall be to beat out laughter from the rising anvil of life.' “Malicious chance was having its laugh at him.”
  • Instead, they will continue to collect what they call perishable evidence -- parts and pieces that will lose their meaning once the plane is moved. CNN Transcript Dec 22, 2008
  • In fact, God had often chastised them for their idolatry (see Jud 2: 14); but it is the curse of impiety not to perceive the hand of God in calamities. victuals -- Men cast away the bread of the soul for the bread that perisheth (De 8: 3; Joh 6: 27). Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
  • No fire that can be kindled upon the altar of speech can relume the radiant spark that perished yesterday. Standard Selections A Collection and Adaptation of Superior Productions From Best Authors For Use in Class Room and on the Platform
  • Will it successfully resist or perish due to state repression?
  • She was reduced to the last degree of poverty; her friends held themselves aloof, disgusted at what they termed her culpable weakness; she and her children suffered from cold and hunger; and during her subsequent illness she and they must have starved and frozen but for the public charities, that would not let anyone in our midst perish from want of necessary food and fuel. Ishmael In the Depths
  • I admire, exposed unto the violence of fire, grows only hot, and liquefies, but consumeth not; so when the consumable and volatile pieces of our bodies shall be refined into a more impregnable and fixed temper, like gold, though they suffer from the action of flames, they shall never perish, but lie immortal in the arms of fire. Religio Medici
  • In fact, the novellas in Publish and Perish were supposed to be short stories.
  • In its solid form, known as dry ice, it is used to chill perishable food during transport.
  • These intimations of mortality triggered in him a ‘consciousness of my very caducity’ (writer's note: caducity is ‘the quality of being transitory or perishable’).
  • He that trusts in a lie shall perish in truth. 
  • He averred that the town was much mistaken in imagining that the king's proclamation had effectually crushed their fraternity, into which opinion they perhaps might be drawn by seeing so many of them perish in so short a time; which, he said, did not lessen their society, but would, notwithstanding that, put all that remained of them upon bolder exploits than ever, to show that they were yet unhanged. Lives of the Most Remarkable Criminals Who have been Condemned and Executed for Murder, the Highway, Housebreaking, Street Robberies, Coining or other offences
  • But he too must perish, for life is a continuous process, and humanity an old man, refusing to be decompounded and rebuilt to the linear utopianism of the dreamer and theorist, come out of the silence with his ideal to be foisted on unregenerate society. Leonid Andreyev: 1871-1919
  • Emigration may, indeed, generally be regarded as an act of severe duty, performed at the expense of personal enjoyment, and accompanied by the sacrifice of those local attachments which stamp the scenes amid which our childhood grew, in imperishable characters upon the heart. Roughing It in the Bush
  • Had railroad facilities been abundant a multitude of small cultivators might have shipped their cane to central mills for manufacture, but as things were the weight and the perishableness of the cane made milling within the reach of easy cartage imperative. American Negro Slavery A Survey of the Supply, Employment and Control of Negro Labor as Determined by the Plantation Regime
  • Cuban martyrdom is not new - whether we speak of those Don Quixotes who took up arms against the revolution early on, the many would-be Mandelas who rotted in prison or the families who perished on boats fleeing the island, giving a moral meaning to the Spanish word balsa "(raft). The Globe and Mail - Home RSS feed
  • It's a perishing shame.
  • There was not even time for his book to be set before the reading public before the poet, poetry editor, and translator was asserting its imperishable grandeur.
  • 'spiffing' and 'good egg' in my humble, but their use all helps to ensure that there is a slightly dotty, frenetic, flapperish atmosphere which makes these stories so agreeable. Random Jottings of a Book and Opera Lover
  • But during that decade, railroad cars were refrigerated and heated , helping preserve perishable goods.
  • What deadly voids and unbidden infidelities in the lines that seem to gnaw upon all Faith, and refuse resurrections to the beings who have placelessly perished without a grave. Moby Dick, or, the whale
  • Indeed, unless some such suprasensible and unifying principle were available, phonetic spelling would speedily perish in an infinity of degenerate variations. Essays Towards a Theory of Knowledge
  • Empires and ideologies have triumphed, perished and fallen into oblivion through the centuries.
  • For three showerless weeks he and a team of researchers surveyed, observed and catalogued the rock, camping under the stars and subsisting on an unlikely diet of cabbage and canned shellfish (nonperishable food items not being a staple of Omani grocery stores). Energy Bulletin -
  • It's worth jacking the car up and having a look at the brake lines (which carry fluid to the brakes), in particular the flexible rubber hoses which can crack and perish.
  • The Porpus is common on this coast and as far up the river as the water is brackish. the Indians sometimes gig them and always eat the flesh of this fish when they can precure it; to me the flavour is disagreeable. the Skaite is also common to the salt water, I have seen several of them that had perished and were thrown out on the beach by the tide. Original journals of the Lewis and Clark Expedition, 1804-1806
  • I can't forget it; I can't forget him; and perhaps my memory shall become my salvation, and thus my vulnerable body my imperishable soul.
  • Pack just the amount of perishable food that can be eaten at lunch.
  • Niépce, a Frenchman, discovered "actinism," that power in the sun's rays which produces a chemical effect; that granite rocks, and stone structures, and statues of metal, "are all alike destructively acted upon during the hours of sunshine, and, but for provisions of Nature no less wonderful, would soon perish under the delicate touch of the most subtile of the agencies of the universe. Harvard Classics Volume 28 Essays English and American
  • Four days after this learned 'lucubration' the voice of the warm-hearted magistrate speaks in a reminder of the prevailing abject misery of the London poor who “in the most miserable lingering Manner do daily perish for Want in this Metropolis.” Henry Fielding A Memoir
  • This form of advertising is what I like to call perishable advertising. Web Advertising and Website Marketing - By Rob Scribner
  • I wish I'd brought a jacket - I'm perished!
  • The ancient Aztec culture has all perished now.
  • First off, you have to pass the world's toughest leadership course, known as 'the perisher'. Times, Sunday Times
  • Fruits are perishable in transit.
  • All private assets were perishing; perceptions of risks were sky-high as bankruptcies amongst the banks accelerated.
  • He could have been one among the many migrant workers, dishwashers, messengers, cleaners, and restaurant help who perished on that day.
  • These principles, taken together, form the true and imperishable basis of the promise of, and the friendship between, our two great nations.
  • [- 24 -] And they would have perished utterly, but for the fact that some of the pikes of the barbarians were bent and others were broken, while the bowstrings snapped under the constant shooting, the missiles were all discharged, every sword blunted, and, chief of all, that the men themselves grew weary of the slaughter. Dio's Rome, Volume 2 An Historical Narrative Originally Composed in Greek During the Reigns of Septimius Severus, Geta and Caracalla, Macrinus, Elagabalus and Alexander Severus; and Now Presented in English Form. Second Volume Extant Books 36-44 (B.C.
  • Dr Braithwaite is now keen to establish a tourism project in Sandakan in memory of his father, and to honour the memory of the many who perished.
  • Many Chinese people perished in the War of Resistance Against Japan.
  • Perishable goods would perish or would have to be warehoused at an additional cost.
  • The only way to render this perishing creature solid and incorruptible is for him to entertain and receive the word of God; for this remains everlasting truth, and, if received, will preserve him to everlasting life, and abide with him for ever. Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume VI (Acts to Revelation)
  • If no berries remain, having been stripped earlier by blackbirds and mistle thrushes, they perish.
  • The windflower and the violet, they perished long ago, Graded Poetry: Seventh Year
  • The rest of the food, the "perishables," was for the other people, he knew that much, since he got very little of it himself. Omnibus
  • Second, the performing arts are also perishable products that cannot be returned or resold.
  • Aeron took no prisoners and gave no quarter - his enemies perished at his blade.
  • When I did perceive that I was delivered from death, and reserved to be gelded, I was greatly sorrie, insomuch that I thought all the hinder part of my body and my stones did ake for woe, but I sought about to kill my selfe by some manner of meanes, to the end if I should die, I would die with unperished members. The Golden Asse
  • It needed only that the seal of martyrdom upon such a life should cause his virtues to be transfigured before us in imperishable grandeur, and his name to be emblazoned with heaven's own light upon that topmost arch of fame, which shall stand when governments and nations fall. Abraham Lincoln; His Life and Its Lessons
  • It constantly amazes me how so many plants can go into survival mode in extreme heat, toughing out conditions that humans would soon perish in.
  • “The Lord is not slack concerning his promise, as some men count slackness; but is long-suffering to usward, not willing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance.” The Gospel Day Or, the Light of Christianity
  • The fossils, found in Northwest Alberta, Canada, revealed a herd of so-called ceratopsian dinosaurs that perished together. Archive 2008-10-01
  • Were women to ‘unsex’ themselves by claiming equality with men, they would become the most hateful, heathen and disgusting of beings and would surely perish without male protection.
  • The songs, of course, are imperishable, but why anyone would prefer this to a decent Kinks compilation is a bit of a mystery: does the presence of Jackson Browne really add anything to a song as close to perfection as Waterloo Sunset? Ray Davies: See My Friends - review
  • GM asked to recall 2000-01 model year after trunk deathsKids and Cars has asked General Motors recall 2000-01 model year  sedans after two children perish in locked trunk. Auto news highlights – June 23, 2009
  • There's an essay or series of linked essays patchworked in my mind that involve object and information persistence, perishability, pertinence, mutability, etc., which involve multiple dimensions.... Making Light: Amazon & Macmillan
  • The waters caught those still remaining in the city by surprise, and most of them perished, including all but a handful of the ramapithecine slaves. The Golden Torc
  • But Vijay perished by toe-ending a short ball from Ravi Rampaul to Devendra Bishoo at deep mid-on and, 13 runs later, Raina followed him back to the pavilion courtesy of a fine diving catch from Rampaul off his own bowling for eight. India draw third Test against West Indies to secure series victory
  • Esther bade them return Mordecai this answer: -- and so will I go in unto the king, which is not according to law, and _if I perish, I perish_. An Appeal to the Christian Women of the South
  • It seemed more prudent to think everything connected: my card, the perishing family note, 47 and recent interest in the old scandal. SUMMER OF SECRETS
  • As the apostle denounced this first simonist, so the Church has continued ever since to denounce those who propose to purchase its sacred powers, -- "Thy silver perish with thee, because thou hast thought to obtain the gift of God with money" (Acts viii. An Introduction to the History of Western Europe
  • To him, perhaps, it has been given to listen to the voice of the ancient poet, heard as a far-off whisper; to breathe in forgotten gardens the perfume of long dead flowers; to contemplate the love of women whose beauty is all perished in the dust; to hearken to the sound of the harp and the sistra, to be the possessor of the riches of historical romance. The Treasury of Ancient Egypt Miscellaneous Chapters on Ancient Egyptian History and Archaeology
  • Wear your coat, it's perishing out there!
  • If they don't get attacked by a hostile neighbour they will perish from sheer want.
  • Those who live by wishful thinking perish in disillusion. The Uncertain Future
  • The biblical psalmist wrote, ‘Without vision, the people perish.’
  • The simplicity of insinuated enclosure eroding into infinite openness is as elegant as it is unperishable. The Times Literary Supplement
  • Many perished on their journey up the river; others sank into dormancy in their cases, never to revive. THE GOLDEN FOOL: BOOK TWO OF THE TAWNY MAN
  • Simon the Sorcerer in Acts 8 – Simon tries to cut a deal with Peter for distribution rights on the impartation of the Holy Spirit and Peter answers, “May your money perish with you, because you thought you could buy the gift of God with money!” For Profit Structures in Mission Movements
  • A picture of Christ in the mourning widow's chamber; a "mater dolorosa," in the distracted mother's home; a "kerchief" of the Holy Virgin, spotlessly white, like the glorious spirit, above the bed of olden times, are surely elevating, and honorable presences, the recollections which lead us to them are holy and imperishable, as is the devotion which bows the knee before them. Debts of Honor
  • Here, too, there was a tendency to remodel ruined buildings and convert them into more modest structures, often using perishable materials.
  • Moments later the boats were smashed to smithereens by the force of the giant wave and the boatmen were believed to have perished.
  • Lesser mortals turn out their attics and find a dead radiogram, a broken Teasmade and two perished hot water bottles. Chatsworth House clearout expected to fetch £2.5m
  • In winter, carve up the snow at fields such as Thredbo and Perisher Blue.
  • The government of the people, by the people, and for the people shall not perish from the earth. 
  • It was perishing in the tent.
  • The thing is, most of these goods are perishable, so the choice is made for you. A ROOMFUL OF BIRDS - SCOTTISH SHORT STORIES 1990
  • It is a deeply accomplished and intelligent film about the fragility and perishability of love.
  • I am angry for the innocent, unnumbered and uncounted Iraqi civilians who have perished.
  • 'In perusing these old catalogues one cannot help being astonished at the sudden and great increase of books; and when one reflects that a great, perhaps the greater, part of them no longer exists, this perishableness of human labours will excite the same sensations as those which arise in the mind when one reads in a church-yard the names and titles of persons long since mouldered into dust. The Book-Hunter at Home
  • The five sledgers in the polar party were dead, though nobody yet knew how or where they had perished.
  • Places where unhallowed men and women had perished for love or faith or both. SACRAMENT
  • We shall do it or perish in the attempt.
  • Shall we go sate my appetite for perishable victuals, my ever-loving husband?
  • The Iraqi government under President Saddam Hussein maintained from the start that Speicher perished at the crash site. Speicher, Michael S.
  • The thing is, most of these goods are perishable, so the choice is made for you. A ROOMFUL OF BIRDS - SCOTTISH SHORT STORIES 1990
  • The reason is plain: he was, so to speak, of two parties, yet of neither: the one could not forgive his early aspirations for liberty, uttered in imperishable verse; the other could not pardon what they called his desertion of their cause, when he saw that England was willing to do, and was doing, justice to Ireland. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 15, No. 87, January, 1865
  • They wallow in those fordid Lusts which they enjoy in common with the Beasts that perish, and despise the Dignity and Blessedness of the Angels of Light. Heaven the residence of the saints
  • First of all newspapers are rather flimsy by nature and thus quite perishable and this fragility tends to limit value.
  • It came from the United States with their `publish or perish " of the Sixties. A DEATH IN TIME
  • John singled out the sword as the suitable agent of retribution against a ruler who unlawfully used it against his people: ‘For whosoever takes up the sword deserves to perish by the sword.’
  • The race of mankind would perish did they cease to aid each other. We cannot exist without mutual help. All, therefore, that need aid have a right to ask it from their fellow men; and no one who has the power of granting can refuse it without guilt. Seneca 
  • The government of the people, by the people, and for the people shall not perish from the earth. 
  • For Plato himself, a study of mathematics and geometry leads the mind away from the corruptible and perishable to the contemplation of true Being and eternal order.
  • We have refrigerators, but we'd like to get a big plastic-wrapping machine so we could preserve the perishables longer.
  • A number of residents have contacted the council about this and have been told to put extra wrapping on perishables.
  • Oh heart, if one should say to you that the soul perishes like the body, answer that the flower withers, but the seed remains. Kahlil Gibran 
  • When all the financial world was clamoring for money and perishing through lack of it, the first of each month many thousands of dollars poured into his coffers from the water-rates, and each day ten thousand dollars, in dime and nickels, came in from his street railways and ferries. Chapter XX
  • ‘We often use containers made of Bakelite, or a kindred substance, to store various perishable food-stuffs in the larder,’ he explained.
  • When they perished, the buffalo, no longer routinely culled by farmers to feed the Indian cities, overpopulated their farms, and rapidly spread out across the newly-emptied Great Plains.
  • 'Were I even to be dying from hunger,' he said, 'or perishing from frostbites, and so much as a thousand taels were offered me for each single fan, I wouldn't part with them.' Hung Lou Meng, Book II Or, the Dream of the Red Chamber, a Chinese Novel in Two Books
  • In the 1800s, people turned to paperboard boxes, paper bags, and tin cans to preserve perishables.
  • That soul cannot perish, nor that concern fall to the ground, though ever so weighty, that is by faith hung upon Christ. Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume IV (Isaiah to Malachi)
  • They pick up its light weapons on the battle-field on which their fathers perished, and re-feather against the 'canaille' the shafts which had been pointed against the 'noblesse.' The Parisians — Volume 01
  • After some years of dolorous wandering in this palace of despair, -- for ` hope of rest to solace there is none, nor e'en of milder pang, 'save the poisonous anodyne of drink, -- most of those insnared to-night will perish, some of them in horrible torture. Plain facts for old and young : embracing the natural history and hygiene of organic life.

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