All 7 Uses of
perish
in
A Tale of Two Cities
- "All the village," pursued the mender of roads, on tiptoe and in a low voice, "withdraws; all the village whispers by the fountain; all the village sleeps; all the village dreams of that unhappy one, within the locks and bars of the prison on the crag, and never to come out of it, except to perish.†
Chpt 2.15perish = die, be destroyed, or cease to exist
- I have altogether perished from the remembrance of the living, and in the next generation my place was a blank.†
Chpt 2.17 *perished = died, was destroyed, or ceased to exist
- What money would be drawn out of Tellson's henceforth, and what would lie there, lost and forgotten; what plate and jewels would tarnish in Tellson's hiding-places, while the depositors rusted in prisons, and when they should have violently perished; how many accounts with Tellson's never to be balanced in this world, must be carried over into the next; no man could have said, that night, any more than Mr. Jarvis Lorry could, though he thought heavily of these questions.†
Chpt 3.2
- Every one of those had perished in the massacre; every human creature he had since cared for and parted with, had died on the scaffold.†
Chpt 3.6
- But he will perish; there is no real hope.†
Chpt 3.11perish = die, be destroyed, or cease to exist
- He will perish: there is no real hope," echoed Carton.†
Chpt 3.11
- If he had given any utterance to his, and they were prophetic, they would have been these: "I see Barsad, and Cly, Defarge, The Vengeance, the Juryman, the Judge, long ranks of the new oppressors who have risen on the destruction of the old, perishing by this retributive instrument, before it shall cease out of its present use.†
Chpt 3.15perishing = dying or being destroyed; or extremely cold
Definition:
to die -- especially in an unnatural way
or:
to be destroyed or cease to exist
or:
to be destroyed or cease to exist
You may encounter an informal expression, "Perish the thought." It means that the speaker hopes the thought will cease to exist and the thing it represents will never happen.