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Sentences starting with perish

Perish all those who do not think as we do! [10]
Perish the hand that pulls that cork! [5]

Sentences ending with perish

Then indeed everything will be at an end--we, everybody; but they too, they, too, will perish. [10]
When I think what we can be if we must, I can't believe the least of us shall finally perish. [8]
If she failed to inspire, the Church would wither and perish. [9]
He was so tired, though, that he had to light, at last, or perish. [5]
If they venture--and they will--to lay a sacrilegious hand on the god, besiegers and besieged alike--the whole world together, must perish. [10]
He could endure the three-mile walk in the storm, but he could not endure the tortures his conscience would suffer if he turned his back and left that poor old creature to perish. [5]
But being immortal, she did not perish. [10]
And at the same time a fiend whispered in my ear: 'Destroy him, or he will kill you, and through him Rome will perish! [10]
We must believe, or perish. [9]
They must trade or perish. [9]

More example sentences with the word perish in them

Fear not for your granddaughters, sisters, playfellows and betrothed: From the earliest ages a stringent law forbade the sacrifice of Egyptian blood; strangers were to perish, or those who worshipped other gods than those in Egypt. [10]
Prepared for the worst, they trudged on with blind hope, eager to die fighting if they must die, rather than to perish of hunger and thirst in the desert. [11]
Then, in burning words, he exhorted all the followers of Serapis to fight and conquer for their god, or--if need must--to perish for and with him. [10]
The elephant-hunter's enthusiasm will waste away little by little, and his zeal will perish at last if he plod around a month without finding a member of that noble family to assassinate. [5]
The bravest men, who were always willing to come to the front in war, and who freely risked their lives for others, would on an average perish in larger numbers than other men. [1]
With those animals which were benefited by living in close association, the individuals which took the greatest pleasure in society would best escape various dangers, whilst those that cared least for their comrades, and lived solitary, would perish in greater numbers. [1]
Both parties deprecated war, but one of them would make war rather than let the nation survive, and the other would accept war rather than let it perish, and the war came. [7]
After all, depend upon it, it is better to be worn out with work in a thronged community, than to perish of inaction in a stagnant solitude take this truth into consideration whenever you get tired of work and bustle. [14]
She had come to the Serapeum expressly to avenge her son's death and then to perish with the fall of the gods for whom he had sacrificed his young life. [10]
To die there, to perish there with her lover, did not seem hard; nay, she felt proud to think that she might await death in the noblest edifice ever raised to a god by mortal hands. [10]
He who was to perish in misery is permitted, with a sword at his side, to gloat over our destruction. [10]
When Sabina represented to him what a large outlay these new measures would entail, he replied: "We do not allow the veterans to perish who placed their lives, and limbs at the service of the state. [10]
At the same time it was desirable to rescue as much as possible from the flames; for it would have given his enemies a fatal hold upon him, if the famous old city of Memphis should perish by his neglect. [10]
Anxious spirits and throbbing hearts were those that now sought shelter in the Serapeum, fully prepared to perish with their god, and yet eager with enthusiasm to avert his fall if possible. [10]
In this case their conduct is not much worse than that of the North American Indians, who leave their feeble comrades to perish on the plains; or the Fijians, who, when their parents get old, or fall ill, bury them alive. [1]
I remember how the Sirens sat on flowery meads by the shore and sang, and are vulgarly supposed to have allured passing mariners to a life of ignoble pleasure, and then let them perish, hungry with all unsatisfied longings. [4]
The memory of the Pilgrims can not perish while Plymouth Rock remains to us. [5]
By impetus gained, the French army was still able to roll forward to Moscow, but there, without further effort on the part of the Russians, it had to perish, bleeding from the mortal wound it had received at Borodino. [2]
Could I call the fabled Hydra, I would have him live and perish, survive and die, until the sun itself would grow dim with age. [5]
The portrait of the dead may perish if it may but save the life of him who wrought it so lovingly. [10]
Without his intercession she would perish in despair. [10]
He resolves to see her in her own home, with the consoling theme: "'I can but perish if I go. [5]
We perish of rest and rust: but we do not like your work. [6]
As they continued rapidly to decrease, and as they themselves thought that they should not perish so quickly elsewhere, they were removed in 1847 to Oyster Cove in the southern part of Tasmania. [1]
One pair of protecting arms more or less could not matter to the nuns, while the captive Narses might very probably perish before he could be rescued without his interest with the Arab general. [10]
This world would perish with Serapis; but perhaps it might please that One to call another world into being out of his overflowing essence, peopled by other and different beings. [10]
Is everything to perish which our forefathers planned and founded? [10]
Save him, and perish to save him, yes! [11]
There were many of these now in the town; ten thousand had seen those dearest to them perish, and others, being wounded, had within a few days been ruined both in health and estate. [10]
I shall perish of my debauchery if Thou utterly desertest me! [2]
We almost perish of hunger and thirst, when we might be so happy if only we would be satisfied with apples and pears! [10]
You and Burnside now have him by the throat, and he must break your hold or perish I therefore think you better try to hold the road up to Kingston, leaving Burnside to what is above there. [7]
Nay; he had nothing to avenge; he seemed to himself like a man who beholds his father and mother in mortal peril, owns that he cannot save both, yet knows that while staking his life to rescue one he must leave the other to perish. [10]
Verily He will not let him perish who believeth in Him; but you! [10]
And I did not fail to remind Nancy, constantly, that this was the path on which her feet had been set; that to waver now was to perish. [9]
I think it must be a case of history actually repeating itself, and not a case of a good story floating down the ages and surviving because too good to be allowed to perish. [5]
At sunrise he must appear before the Emperor as cheerful as usual, and yet he felt as if he must himself perish miserably as his happiness had done. [10]
A disease whereof most that fall ailing do perish. [3]
If what are miscalled the lower animals were as silly as man is, they would all perish from the earth in a year. [5]
Lands and thrones may perish, plague and devastation walk abroad with death, misery and beggary crawl naked to the doorway, and crime cower in the hedges; but to the egregious egotism of young love there are only two identities bulking in the crowded universe. [11]
The Joy of Life, that streaming through their Veins Tumultuous swept, falls slack--and wanes The Glory in the Eye--and one by one Life's Pleasures perish and make place for Pains. [5]
Thereupon she had laughed shrilly and reviled so bitterly the contemptible blind Fortune that remains most loyal to those who deserve to perish in the deepest misery, that Bias avoided repeating her words to his master. [10]
If she delayed it, she would be making him guilty of a fresh crime by allowing two blameless men to perish in misery. [10]
As soon as it was dark the old man buried all his savings, for even if everyone else were to perish, he felt that he--though how or why he knew not--might be exempt from the common doom. [10]
Now behold, it is written that he who has given counsel about the country or its capital should perish with it when it comes into peril. [11]
Eventually, if democracy is not to perish from the face of the earth, some other than the crude imperialistic method of dealing with backward peoples, of obtaining for civilization the needed resources of their lands, must be inaugurated--a democratic method. [9]
Nevertheless, the migratory instinct is so powerful, that late in the autumn swallows, house-martins, and swifts frequently desert their tender young, leaving them to perish miserably in their nests. [1]
He must remain in Moscow, concealing his name, and must meet Napoleon and kill him, and either perish or put an end to the misery of all Europe--which it seemed to him was solely due to Napoleon. [2]
Perhaps all these horrors existed only in Medius' fancy; but if destruction were indeed impending, she would a thousand times rattier perish with her own relations than with these people, in whom there was something--she did not know what--for which she felt a deep aversion. [10]
But now--when Paula, his betrothed, had done this great thing for him--to perish now, with her love unseen, unknown, uncared for, perhaps forgotten by him, to retire into herself and vanish from his ken--that was too much for human nature! [10]
There was nothing heroic in it; we had no object: it was merely, as it must appear by this time, a pleasure excursion, and we might be lost or perish in it without reward and with little sympathy. [4]
He had possessed her, and the memory of the wild joy of that possession, of that surrender to great strength, refused to perish. [9]
Here, constantly near her and with her, the struggle must wear me out--I should perish, body and soul. [10]
In any case, he must make for settlement or perish, since he had left behind his sheep and his cow. [11]
No man ever had such a monument as this before; the most imposing of the world's other monuments are but atoms compared to it; and they will perish, and their places will pass from memory, but this will remain. [5]
Sooner will I go way with her and leave even you, to perish with my parents in misery and anguish than see that happen, or suffer it for a moment. [10]
I must look for the commander in chief here, and if all is lost it is for me to perish with the rest. [2]
It might perish for aught she cared, and the whole world with it! [10]
In a swift flash of thought she saw her own home with its wealth and splendor, and then the ship-builder's house-simple, chillingly bare, with its comfortless rooms; she felt as though she must perish, nipped and withered, in such a home. [10]
Not mine the fate the world's dark ways to wend, And perish, wearied, at the goal of life; Still glad and blooming, I leave every friend; The game is lost--but with what joys 'twas rife! [10]
He roused his family, and hoarsely commanded, "Up with ye all and fly--or bide where ye are and perish! [5]
He would be eloquent, or perish. [5]
The shops are deserted, now, half of the people have fled, and of the remainder the smitten perish by shoals every day. [5]
It was a cruel fate to be left to perish in that way,--the fate that many a martyr had had to face,--to be first strangled and then burned. [6]
To fight and conquer, or perish with the foe! [10]
She came to Coniston inexorable, it is true, because hers was a nature impelled to do right though it perish. [9]
Two persons so closely allied should sink and perish, still firmly united, in the final battle, if victory was denied. [10]
Courage observes; reflects; calculates; surveys the whole situation; counts the cost, estimates the odds, makes up its mind; then goes at the enterprise resolute to win or perish. [5]
He bewailed the beautiful statue as a lost treasure of art; but he felt that it was indispensable that it should perish out of the world. [10]
Serapis will not be mocked; he will stand though all else perish. [10]
All that could be hoped was that he would perish by suffocation rather than by the flames, which would soon be upon him. [6]
Then she would be buried alive, and she must perish alone, without seeing him whom she loved once more, or telling him that she had not been unworthy of his trust in her. [10]
It began to be a question whether I could hold out to walk all night; for I must travel, or perish. [4]
They had seen another beloved comrade perish in the battle of Gohrde, a handsome young man of delicate figure and an unusually reserved manner. [10]
Hold it down and let it smolder and perish and go out? [5]
Simplicity and worth and beauty--these elements at least of the older Republic should not perish, but in the end prevail. [9]
They are then, also, compelled to wander much, and, as I was assured in Australia, their infants perish in large numbers. [1]
If they were all landed there in a day, they would all perish in the next ten days; and there are not surplus shipping and surplus money enough to carry them there in many times ten days. [7]
If they were all landed there in a day, they would all perish in the next ten days; and there are not surplus shipping and surplus money enough in the world to carry them there in many times ten days. [7]
In her old age she saw Rome built; she saw it overshadow the world with its power; she saw it perish. [5]
She, too--so young, a hardly-opened blossom--must perish in the universal ruin, and be crushed by the same omnipotent hand that could overthrow the greatest of the gods; and a glow of passionate hatred snatched her away from the aim of her hopes. [10]
Aristomachus exclaimed, "Not a hair of your head shall be touched, if Egypt perish for it! [10]
But it is a good thing for proprietors who perish morally, bring remorse upon themselves, stifle this remorse and grow callous, as a result of being able to inflict punishments justly and unjustly. [2]

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