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Definition
to die — especially in an unnatural way
or:
to be destroyed or cease to exist
or:
to be destroyed or cease to exist
- When I appeared on deck the master said, "Here is our captain, and he will not allow you to perish on the open sea."Introductory Letters (59% in)
- It may therefore be judged indecent in me to come forward on this occasion, but when I see a fellow creature about to perish through the cowardice of her pretended friends, I wish to be allowed to speak, that I may say what I know of her character.Chapter 8 (38% in)
- You, my playfellow, my companion, my sister, perish on the scaffold!Chapter 8 (75% in)
- She perished on the scaffold as a murderess!Chapter 8 (93% in)
- I only wonder that at that moment, instead of venting my sensations in exclamations and agony, I did not rush among mankind and perish in the attempt to destroy them.Chapter 16 (89% in)
- Has this mind, so replete with ideas, imaginations fanciful and magnificent, which formed a world, whose existence depended on the life of its creator;—has this mind perished?Chapter 18 (92% in)
- I knelt on the grass and kissed the earth and with quivering lips exclaimed, "By the sacred earth on which I kneel, by the shades that wander near me, by the deep and eternal grief that I feel, I swear; and by thee, O Night, and the spirits that preside over thee, to pursue the daemon who caused this misery, until he or I shall perish in mortal conflict.Chapter 24 (5% in)
- Never will I give up my search until he or I perish; and then with what ecstasy shall I join my Elizabeth and my departed friends, who even now prepare for me the reward of my tedious toil and horrible pilgrimage!Chapter 24 (18% in)
There are no more uses of "perish" in Frankenstein.
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