All 21 Uses of
perish
in
Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea
- We logged 9,720 miles when we passed between the Tonga Islands, where crews from the Argo, Port-au-Prince, and Duke of Portland had perished, and the island group of Samoa, scene of the slaying of Captain de Langle, friend of that long-lost navigator, the Count de La Pérouse.†
Chpt 1perished = died, was destroyed, or ceased to exist
- "So," he said to me, "the castaways built a third ship on Vanikoro Island, and to this day, nobody knows where it went and perished?"†
Chpt 1
- They headed to the Solomon Islands, and they perished with all hands on the westerly coast of the chief island in that group, between Cape Deception and Cape Satisfaction!†
Chpt 1
- Braving the ice banks of the South Pole, the coral of Oceania, the cannibals of the Pacific, only to perish wretchedly in a train wreck!†
Chpt 1 *perish = die, be destroyed, or cease to exist
- The Zealous and the new Astrolabe wellnigh perished, but my Nautilus is in no danger.†
Chpt 1perished = died, was destroyed, or ceased to exist
- It was unlikely, because sooner or later his work would perish with him in some unknown sea!†
Chpt 1perish = die, be destroyed, or cease to exist
- The Arab Idrisi, referring to it by the name Gulf of Colzoum, relates that ships perished in large numbers on its sandbanks and that no one risked navigating it by night.†
Chpt 2perished = died, was destroyed, or ceased to exist
- This fanciful fellow claims the sea was given its name after the crossing of the Israelites, when the Pharaoh perished in those waves that came together again at Moses' command: To mark that miraculous sequel, the sea turned a red without equal.†
Chpt 2
- Now, whether or not their crossing was literally miraculous, the Israelites did cross there in returning to the Promised Land, and the Pharaoh's army did perish at precisely that locality.†
Chpt 2perish = die, be destroyed, or cease to exist
- During his Egyptian campaign, your General Napoleon Bonaparte discovered traces of this old canal in the Suez desert, and when the tide caught him by surprise, he wellnigh perished just a few hours before rejoining his regiment at Hadjaroth, the very place where Moses had pitched camp 3,300 years before him.†
Chpt 2perished = died, was destroyed, or ceased to exist
- And yet they can't escape the Provençal fishermen, who prize them as highly as did the ancient inhabitants of Turkey and Italy; and these valuable animals, as oblivious as if they were deaf and blind, leap right into the Marseilles tuna nets and perish by the thousands.†
Chpt 2perish = die, be destroyed, or cease to exist
- Some of these wrecked ships had perished in collisions, others from hitting granite reefs.†
Chpt 2perished = died, was destroyed, or ceased to exist
- The possibility of perishing in our reckless undertaking was the least of my worries; my heart was pounding at the thought that our plans might be discovered before we had left the Nautilus, at the thought of being hauled in front of Captain Nemo and finding him angered, or worse, saddened by my deserting him.†
Chpt 2perishing = dying or being destroyed; or extremely cold
- Were this ship and everyone on board doomed to perish in this tomb of ice?†
Chpt 2perish = die, be destroyed, or cease to exist
- Had he perished?†
Chpt 2perished = died, was destroyed, or ceased to exist
- It contains a summary of my research under the sea, and God willing, it won't perish with me.†
Chpt 2perish = die, be destroyed, or cease to exist
- How many ships have perished in these waterways as they tried to get directions from the hazy lights on the coast!†
Chpt 2perished = died, was destroyed, or ceased to exist
- But this isn't the place where you'll perish!†
Chpt 2perish = die, be destroyed, or cease to exist
- In any event, it's better to perish with it than be accomplices in some act of revenge whose merits we can't gauge.†
Chpt 2
- I took one last look at the natural wonders and artistic treasures amassed in the museum, this unrivaled collection doomed to perish someday in the depths of the seas, together with its curator.†
Chpt 2
- I likewise hope that his powerful submersible has defeated the sea inside its most dreadful whirlpool, that the Nautilus has survived where so many ships have perished!†
Chpt 2perished = died, was destroyed, or ceased to exist
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.