perishing

Example Sentences

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Perishing in a snowdrift of optimistic clich�s, Bentley loses all � home, wife, job, future.

From Time Magazine Archive

I told the Captin afterwards what the Major had told me but I dont think he would care if General Perishing had asked me home to dinner.

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Our Perishing Little Ones," she says: "As to the present state of the mission, we simply say 'Come and see.'

From Mystic London: or, Phases of occult life in the metropolis by Davies, Charles Maurice

Perishing with cold, she went out and entered another wigwam.

From King Philip Makers of History by Abbott, John S. C. (John Stevens Cabot)

If General Perishing should happen to find one of us starved to death some mornin he wants to be able to show him we had plenty of food on us when we slipped away.

From "Same old Bill, eh Mable!" by Breck, G. William