All 6 Uses
perish
in
The Hobbit
(Edited)
- 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!'
p. 109.3perish = die
- Doubtless they perished first in fire, before Smaug came to us.
p. 231.2 *perished = died
- Probably most of them would have perished in the winter that now hurried after autumn, if help had not been to hand.
p. 232.1
- 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.
p. 264.6
- 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.
p. 264.7
- 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!p. 269.7perish = cease to exist
Definitions:
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(1)
(perish) to die -- especially in an unnatural way
or:
to be destroyed or cease to existYou 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. - (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)