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  • [of the legend of Hercules and Antaeus] But when he was held, rootless, in midair, by Hercules, he perished easily. If there isn't something in that legend for us today, in this city, in our time, then I am completely insane.   (source)
    perished = died
  • Next to each other now, standing, Dodge and the rook whirled, aiming their swords skyward just in time for an attacking seeker to impale itself on them and perish with a hideous howl.   (source)
    perish = die
  • ISIS gave purpose to lost souls and promised an afterlife of eternal copulation to those who perished for the cause.†   (source)
    perished = died, was destroyed, or ceased to exist
  • For those who perished on the line
    He did not seem to care,
    His engine being more to him
    Than all the people there.   (source)
    perished = died
  • Here, homeless and friendless, after thirty-seven years of bitter captivity, perished a noble stranger, natural son of Louis XIV.   (source)
  • 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.   (source)
    perish = be destroyed
  • It's very likely that only half of the ships will reach the Earth's solar system, while the rest perish along the way.†   (source)
  • I preferred to set off and perish in search of my own kind than to live a lonely half-life of physical comfort and spiritual death on this murderous island.†   (source)
  • The spirits of those who had perished at the pier were all around, engaged with one another, eating and drinking and talking.†   (source)
  • Going back to the land where her parents and brothers perished, where the smoke of bombs is only now settling?†   (source)
  • He clanked to his feet and shouted, "Come follow me, dear friends, and we shall find our goal, or else shall perish bravely in the charge!"†   (source)
  • Was it destined to perish in this tomb of ice along with all those on board?†   (source)
  • "Your parents," Mr. Poe said, "have perished in a terrible fire."†   (source)
  • Martyn Cassel had perished with the rest.†   (source)
  • Publish or perish.†   (source)
  • Before he perished, Bruder was able to tell a remarkable story to his rescuers.†   (source)
  • Everything has to evolve or else it perishes.†   (source)
  • The earth goddess whom you have insulted may refuse to give us her increase, and we shall all perish.†   (source)
  • "If it weren't for Mr. Cruse here, I'd surely have perished," said Kate.†   (source)
  • Oh, perish the thought!†   (source)
  • Then as for Thamud, they were caused to perish by a storm of thunder and lightning.†   (source)
  • You'll perish standing there.†   (source)
  • Settlers who stuck to the Old World crops often perished.†   (source)
  • And if something should happen to it—if, for example, it died—he would perish with it.†   (source)
  • The very worst poetry of all perished along with its creator, Paula Nancy Millstone Jennings of Greenbridge, Essex, England, in the destruction of the planet Earth.†   (source)
  • "Well —" he rolled his eyes—"I was still a bit green, but I realized at that rate I'd be perishing of old age before I ever got out of there.†   (source)
  • And if they have an end, it will be when this world perishes, for they suffer as the land does.†   (source)
  • Treachery, Loose Talk, And Stupidity Then he said, "Without a doubt, I must perish; there is no way I can get out of this narrow prison."†   (source)
  • Kassad grimaces, closes his eyes, sees......fireballs expanding, stars dying, suns exploding in great pulses of flame, star systems perishing in an ecstasy of destruction......he feels pain in his chest, his hips not stopping, moving faster, even as he opens his eyes and sees......the great thorn of steel rising from between Moneta's breasts, almost impaling him as he unconsciously pulls up and back, the thornblade drawing blood which drips on her flesh, her pale flesh, reflective now†   (source)
  • It was time to perform or perish.†   (source)
  • Some of the buildings were simply barricaded and the inhabitants exchanged fire with the SS, determined to die fighting, with weapons in their hands, rather than perish in the gas chamber.†   (source)
  • Until now it has not occurred to Gogol that names die over time, that they perish just as people do.†   (source)
  • Now the story works because it's the older, stronger son, the swimming star and apple of his mother's eye, the one who never dies except in family tragedies and war stories, who perishes.†   (source)
  • Good-bye until the next time, dear Celie, from a pitiful, cast-out woman who may perish during the rainy season.†   (source)
  • Bernice might even perish in the fire.†   (source)
  • THE FIRE RAGED WITH INCONCEIVABLE VIOLENCE AND IN ITS DESTRUCTIVE PROGRESS SWEPT AWAY ALL THE BUILDINGS BETWEEN BROAD STREET AND THE NORTH RIVER ... SEVERAL WOMEN AND CHILDREN PERISHED IN THE FIRE; THEIR SHRIEKS JOINED TO THE ROARING OF THE FLAMES, THE CRASH OF FALLING HOUSES, AND THE WIDESPREAD RUIN WHICH EVERYWHERE APPEARED, FORMED A SCENE OF HORROR GREAT BEYOND DESCRIPTION, AND WHICH WAS STILL HEIGHTENED BY THE DARKNESS OF THE NIGHT.†   (source)
  • How we wives and mothers do perish at the hands of our own righteousness.†   (source)
  • That is, the fact that all the beauty that surrounds us must one day perish.†   (source)
  • I had believed him to be dead, and when I asked Armand about those vampires, he told me they all had perished.†   (source)
  • But if it had to perish twice, I think I know enough of hate To say that for destruction ice Is also great And would suffice.†   (source)
  • Blanca saw her mother serve the food on plates of handcrafted clay, such as was used for making bricks, since all the dishes had perished in the quake.†   (source)
  • Without local support their primitive supply line would perish, and they would rapidly begin to lose recruits.†   (source)
  • It was far better to perish here.†   (source)
  • A journalist from the Commercial Daily asked Dr. Juvenal Urbino for his final words in the event he perished during the adventure, and he did not even take the time to think about the answer that would earn him so much abuse.†   (source)
  • My father and mother and my sisters perished in the flames.†   (source)
  • For God so loved the world, that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him shall not perish, but have eternal life.— JOHN 3:16†   (source)
  • Naturally, my father would have felt this loss keenly; but to make matters worse the usual comfort a father has in these situations — that is, the notion that his son gave his life gloriously for king and country — was sullied by the fact that my brother had perished in a particularly infamous manoeuvre.†   (source)
  • Never could I have imagined that nearly every SEAL I'd visited with and spoken to about Adam Brown would perish in the single worst loss-of-life incident in Naval Special Warfare history.†   (source)
  • And whatever stalked there saw, and spread the news of what it saw throughout the entire kingdom of whomever, though the eye itself might perish.†   (source)
  • "Come on, Papi," his daughters coaxed him, as if it were a modesty of his, to perish, and they had to talk him into staying alive.†   (source)
  • The World Health Organization estimates that 536,000 women perished in pregnancy or childbirth in 2005, a toll that has barely budged in thirty years.†   (source)
  • He perished in the great silence epidemic of 1712.†   (source)
  • Faculty club interlocutions over "publish or perish" or how affirmative action exacerbates the conflict between the magnetic lecturers and the dogged scholars are not on Cedric's radar.†   (source)
  • They perished in fires.†   (source)
  • However ...by turning myself round and round I kept myself from perishing.†   (source)
  • Culture is perishing in overproduction, in an avalanche of words, in the madness of quantity.†   (source)
  • The ultimate evil is that Time is perpetual perishing, and being actual involves elimination.†   (source)
  • Horses perishing in the streets.†   (source)
  • What if upon hearing the news he threw up his hands and perished in front of me?†   (source)
  • And there were not so many dead for him to bury any more, Colonel Korn pointed out, since opposition from German fighter planes had virtually ceased and since close to ninety per cent of what fatalities there still were, he estimated, perished behind the enemy lines or disappeared inside the clouds, where the chaplain had nothing to do with disposing of the remains.†   (source)
  • Their women worked themselves to death, their mules succumbed to worms and their children were crippled by rickets and perished from fever, but every Sunday morning The Word leaked out of little white-wood sanctuaries where preachers thrust ragged Bibles at the rafters and promised them that while sickness and poverty and Lucifer might take their families, the soul of man never dies.†   (source)
  • Without us, mankind would have perished long ago.†   (source)
  • * She'd never heard this piece read down at Holy Trinity, but she had tucked it into her memory and now it came out, screamed like a battle cry: "And those that perish in the sea, the sea shall not hold them!†   (source)
  • Perish the thought.†   (source)
  • When adults wage war, children perish.†   (source)
  • Most seemed to frown at one point or another, and he assumed the "perish in pain" phrase made them cringe.†   (source)
  • You say Lord save me, I perish.†   (source)
  • The Soviet leader insists that he is not trying to incite nuclear war: "Only lunatics or suicides, who themselves want to perish and to destroy the whole world before they die, could do this," he writes.†   (source)
  • Many thousands then perished, but the Days of Dearth (1158-60) were at the time of this tale long past and the Hobbits had again become accustomed to plenty.†   (source)
  • And some say that when the lands were destroyed, not all of the inhabitants perished with them.†   (source)
  • These will be punished, for without the help of all, all must perish.†   (source)
  • Call home Thy Angel of Wrath and let not this child perish under the heavy stroke of this dreadful Plague, which is now a dweller amongst us ...†   (source)
  • Some 15,000 prisoners perished en route.†   (source)
  • With the regularity of mile markers, white shahid, or "martyr" monuments honored the death of Frontier Works Organization roadbuilders who had perished in their battles with these rock walls.†   (source)
  • In it, consciousness perished-but before it did, the gunslinger saw something of cosmic importance.†   (source)
  • If the idea of truth had been allowed to perish unrediscovered by the Renaissance it's unlikely that we would be much beyond the level of prehistoric man today.†   (source)
  • Tens of thousands of people scrambled for their lives, became trapped and confused; most figured out how to escape, but scores of people perished in dead-end streets.†   (source)
  • I would have perished long before now if I were.†   (source)
  • Padre Esteban knew that when a man wandered into such an emotional desert, he alone had to seek salvation or perish in its burning sands.†   (source)
  • Lower than the one of those who perished.†   (source)
  • Personally, I believe that it was an accident and that Ellis Wyatt perished in the fire.†   (source)
  • "Doubtless," said I, "these unfortunates have escaped from the wreck of a great ship, but by the admirable designs of the gods, the elder has starved himself to keep the child alive and has perished in sight of land."†   (source)
  • I believe that we are not so weak, so impotent, or so frightened that we must give it up or perish.†   (source)
  • Had the entire family perished?†   (source)
  • When Dart, perished to the bones, gave his usual knock at the farmhouse door, no one answered.†   (source)
  • Stewardess Who Perished in Crash Warned Sister†   (source)
  • I warn you again, out there you will perish without hope.†   (source)
  • When I thought of little Petra, mutilated and thrust naked into Fringes country, to perish or survive as it should chance.†   (source)
  • My purpose is fulfilled, for you, too, shall perish.†   (source)
  • Three hundred and thirty people, including passengers and crew, perished instantly.†   (source)
  • She has perished many times for you.†   (source)
  • Readers would often weep as a beloved character perished under the writer's nib, yet the distinct beauty of the language never overshadowed the blunt force of the story,for the themes imbedded in Jack Cardinal's tales were powerful indeed.†   (source)
  • Either the people will be plundered, as a substitute for legitimate taxation, or the government will sink into a fatal atrophy and perish.†   (source)
  • All the planetules and planetismals and all the rest seems to be people having to publish or perish and not having a good idea.†   (source)
  • "Sink or swim, survive or perish," wrote a young Kentuckian who went with the South, "I will fight in defence of my country."†   (source)
  • If all else perished, and he remained, I should still continue to he; and if all else remained, and he were annihilated, the universe would turn to a mighty stranger†   (source)
  • Kali stepped back as if she had been deliberately affronted: and such pity as she might have had in her perished.†   (source)
  • In Madame Butterfly, Cio-Cio-San fears that the Western man who catches a butterfly will pierce its heart with a needle, then leave it to perish.†   (source)
  • I have a right to know and I'm nearly perishing from curiosity.†   (source)
  • My money perish with me if it stand between me and the eternal law of God!†   (source)
  • It's perishing cold up there.†   (source)
  • In the buses all night she listened to transistor radios playing songs in the lower stretches of the Top 200, that would never become popular, whose melodies and lyrics would perish as if they had never been sung.†   (source)
  • The main bodies of both forces had perished upon the plains.†   (source)
  • Even more wrenching to recount, I, too, had come to Okinawa only days after Eddie had perished (who knows, I have often wondered, perhaps scant hours after he took his mortal wound), to encounter no enemy, no fear, no danger at all, but, through the grace of history, a wrecked yet peaceful Oriental landscape across which I would wander unscathed and unthreatened during the last few weeks before Hiroshima.†   (source)
  • Three-quarters of an inch long, forty per cent jaw and forty per cent powerful grass-hop-perish legs.†   (source)
  • Now, he thought, since all these most easily perishing things have slipped from me again, now I'm standing here under the sun again just as I have been standing here a little child, nothing is mine, I have no abilities, there is nothing I could bring about, I have learned nothing.†   (source)
  • It was said that Vasia's house had been burned down and that a member of his family had perished.†   (source)
  • These little samples, little jokes of creation, persisted and sometimes perished, the more of them the deeper down the road went.†   (source)
  • Of the thirteen descendants of the first Lamar in America who served in the Confederate Armies with the rank of lieutenant colonel or above, seven perished in the war.†   (source)
  • We must learn to live together as brothers or perish together as fools.   (source)
    perish = die
  • Doubtless they perished first in fire, before Smaug came to us.   (source)
    perished = died
  • They perish from hunger and from the claws of the wild beasts...   (source)
    perish = die
  • Though sword shall be rusted,
    And throne and crown perish
    With strength that men trusted
    And wealth that they cherish,
    Here grass is still growing,
    And leaves are yet swinging,
    The white water flowing,
    And elves are yet singing
    Come!   (source)
    perish = cease to exist
  • I once saw him sitting all alone on the top of the Carrock at night watching the moon sinking towards the Misty Mountains, and I heard him growl in the tongue of bears; 'The day will come when they will perish and I shall go back!'   (source)
    perish = die
  • Probably most of them would have perished in the winter that now hurried after autumn, if help had not been to hand.   (source)
    perished = died
  • Songs have said that three parts of the goblin warriors of the North perished on that day, and the mountains had peace for many a year.   (source)
  • They drove many of them into the Running River, and such as fled south or west they hunted into the marshes about the Forest River; and there the greater part of the last fugitives perished, while those that came hardly to the Wood-elves' realm were there slain, or drawn in to die in the trackless dark of Mirkwood.   (source)
  • ...government of the people. . .by the people. . .for the people. . . shall not perish from this earth.   (source)
    perish = cease to exist
  • Shaking in every limb, I groped my way back to the wall; resolving there to perish rather than risk the terrors of the wells,   (source)
    perish = die
  • But the fact that four Israeli citizens had perished in the attack gave Navot standing in Paris.†   (source)
    perished = died, was destroyed, or ceased to exist
  • The militants were four in number; all perished during the brief firefight.†   (source)
  • All those depicted had perished in the Holocaust, including Isaac Weinberg, who had been photographed in his library three months before disaster struck.†   (source)
  • You have made me proud, and all those Hunters who perished in my service will never be forgotten.†   (source)
  • Yeah, I'm sure she's just perishing of loneliness.†   (source)
  • I'd been with Randolph on his boat the day his family had perished.†   (source)
  • Abraham Lincoln's youngest son, Tad, had once gotten lost down there and almost perished.†   (source)
  • One shall perish by a parent's hand," she muttered.†   (source)
  • People are imprisoned in concentration camps, allowed to waste away there and perish.†   (source)
  • "We know what the word 'perished' means," Klaus said, crossly.†   (source)
  • If he must perish, let it be with a sword in his hand, fighting his father's killers.†   (source)
  • Father would sooner watch us all perish one by one than listen to anybody but himself.†   (source)
  • As our great poet Auden said, 'Love each other or perish.'†   (source)
  • As for Ad, they were caused to perish by a fierce and roaring, raging wind.†   (source)
  • "Love each other or perish," Morrie said.†   (source)
  • How many children will be ripped from their mothers to perish on the end of a spear?†   (source)
  • "They perished," Mr. Poe said, "in a fire that destroyed the entire house.†   (source)
  • He ended the subject by quoting the poem he believed in like a prayer: "Love each other or perish."†   (source)
  • "Perished,— Mr. Poe said, "means 'killed."†   (source)
  • More than one dragon has perished because of overweening confidence.†   (source)
  • They would have perished soon in any case, from exposure or starvation.†   (source)
  • Most of us perished: my father, three of four grandparents, and so on.†   (source)
  • Or let the sail pass me by, to perish on my rock.†   (source)
  • I wished she hadn't used the word perish.†   (source)
  • Should Rowan continue this futile resistance, all it holds dear will perish in agony.†   (source)
  • Swim or sink, live or die, survive or perish, [I am] with my country ....You may depend upon it.†   (source)
  • She, too, will perish alone and abandoned.†   (source)
  • The demon perishes, but the canvas remains behind as art.†   (source)
  • Won't the string be perished, Su?" said Peter.†   (source)
  • The last one perished during the reign of King Aegon the Third.†   (source)
  • The young perish and the old linger, withering.†   (source)
  • Humans were given a simple choice: to serve or to perish.†   (source)
  • Of course the mission board was under the impression that you had perished with your parents.†   (source)
  • As the black smoke formed itself into a mushroom cloud, 724 crewmen perished.†   (source)
  • Chubby little Patty Clausen, age 5, was unharmed, but her mother perished.†   (source)
  • She touched her belly, where her son Rhaego had perished.†   (source)
  • As soon as he saw the dark shapes creep from the garden, he knew that he must run for it, or perish.†   (source)
  • Mother Mole and those who followed her will perish there, of cold and starvation.†   (source)
  • When a farmer tills his fields, the ants must scatter or perish.†   (source)
  • I'm not like the men who fly into the flame of war for no reason other than to perish.†   (source)
  • Victoria roared, "The Greeks must perish!"†   (source)
  • It could happen; and he would have loved to see it happen, even if he perished, too.†   (source)
  • Until then, I will allow you to watch your friends perish.†   (source)
  • Choose whether you wish to perish for a morality you have never believed or practiced.†   (source)
  • "Late of this perish," Yoyo said, peering at one of the few legible headstones.†   (source)
  • It was one thing to go into battle surrounded by friends, and another to perish alone and despised.†   (source)
  • No lie will save Dorne from the queen's wroth if her daughter should perish whilst in my care.†   (source)
  • Government of the people, by the people, for the people would perish from the earth.†   (source)
  • Why should one live though the world itself will perish?†   (source)
  • For if Boromir was then in peril and was slain, I must fear that all my companions perished too.†   (source)
  • Two employees of Project 99 perish in the process.†   (source)
  • "You say that if we don't give up the system, we'll perish?" he asked.†   (source)
  • Now he stood at another Zero Point, the physical one, where his wife and daughters had perished.†   (source)
  • Two nights later, it was an infant girl who perished.†   (source)
  • We will harass the enemy with guerrilla actions until the last of us has perished.†   (source)
  • I'm sorry for him, I'm sorry that he perished.†   (source)
  • Not once had she thought that her father might perish instead.†   (source)
  • We were driven back yesterday over the Isen with great loss; many perished at the crossing.†   (source)
  • Destriers began to perish of exhaustion and exposure.†   (source)
  • If he has gone over to the Romans, let him perish.†   (source)
  • Their horses must have perished, and without them they are crippled.†   (source)
  • I would have done better to let him perish in the black cells.†   (source)
  • His gift would perish with his body, he expected.†   (source)
  • Then, since we're holding you, you will perish with us?†   (source)
  • Everyone aboard the airliner had perished.†   (source)
  • The One Ring that was thought to have perished from the world.†   (source)
  • The baby had perished with her, and afterward some of the life had gone out of Father.†   (source)
  • But he knows now that it has not perished, that it has been found.†   (source)
  • When they told his lady of his death she perished of grief, and her newborn son soon followed.†   (source)
  • I saw the boy perish with mine own eyes, clawing at his throat as he tried to draw a breath.†   (source)
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