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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
- My mind was made up; I was resolved that I would foil my master and save my children, or I would perish in the attempt.15 — Continued Persecutions (85% in)
- I knew the doom that awaited my fair baby in slavery, and I determined to save her from it, or perish in the attempt.16 — Scenes At The Plantation (52% in)
- She said if I persevered I might, perhaps, gain the freedom of my children; and even if I perished in doing it, that was better than to leave them to groan under the same persecutions that had blighted my own life.28 — Aunt Nancy (26% in)
There are no more uses of "perish" in Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl.
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