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perishing

[per-i-shing] / ˈpɛr ɪ ʃɪŋ /












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

From Time Magazine Archive

In vast green reed-beds on the vast grey slime Those monsters motherless and helpless lay, Perishing only for the parent's crime Whose seed were they.

From Studies in Song, A Century of Roundels, Sonnets on English Dramatic Poets, The Heptalogia, Etc From Swinburne's Poems Volume V. by Swinburne, Algernon Charles

That they who wrap them in the thunder-cloud Should wear it as a shroud, Perishing by its flashes?

From The Poetical Works of Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Vol. I by Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

Perishing China so filled my heart and mind that there was no rest by day, and little sleep by night, till health broke down.

From A Retrospect by Taylor, James Hudson

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




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