Both Uses of
perishable
in
Lost Horizon
- He looked back then on his long life, as I have already told you, and it seemed to him that all the loveliest things were transient and perishable, and that war, lust, and brutality might someday crush them until there were no more left in the world.†
Chpt 8perishable = things that decay (spoil)
- It seemed to him, in a phrase engraved on memory, that all the loveliest things were transient and perishable, that the two worlds were finally beyond reconciliation, and that one of them hung, as always, by a thread.†
Chpt 11 *
Definition:
things that decay (spoil) -- (often said of foods that need refrigeration such as meats or milk)