All 8 Uses
perish
in
The Song Of Hiawatha
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- If you listen to his counsels,
You will multiply and prosper;
If his warnings pass unheeded,
You will fade away and perish!†Chpt 1perish = die, be destroyed, or cease to exist - And the good Nokomis answered:
"'T is the heaven of flowers you see there;
All the wild-flowers of the forest,
All the lilies of the prairie,
When on earth they fade and perish,
Blossom in that heaven above us."†Chpt 3 - Crosswise then did Hiawatha
Drag his birch-canoe for safety,
Lest from out the jaws of Nahma,
In the turmoil and confusion,
Forth he might be hurled and perish.†Chpt 8 - how all things fade and perish!†
Chpt 14
- "Great men die and are forgotten,
Wise men speak; their words of wisdom
Perish in the ears that hear them,
Do not reach the generations
That, as yet unborn, are waiting
In the great, mysterious darkness
Of the speechless days that shall be!†Chpt 14 - Hardly from his buried wigwam
Could the hunter force a passage;
With his mittens and his snow-shoes
Vainly walked he through the forest,
Sought for bird or beast and found none,
Saw no track of deer or rabbit,
In the snow beheld no footprints,
In the ghastly, gleaming forest
Fell, and could not rise from weakness,
Perished there from cold and hunger.†Chpt 20perished = died, was destroyed, or ceased to exist - Give us food, or we must perish!†
Chpt 20perish = die, be destroyed, or cease to exist
- Would that I had perished for you,
Would that I were dead as you are!†Chpt 20 *perished = died, was destroyed, or ceased 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)