Towards the morning of the fourth day his fever has ceased; the tortures of hunger and thirst are no longer felt; the complete annihilation of his strength is to him a kind of relief; sleep seizes him, and with sleep he thinks death must come.
If I had analysed my thoughts, I suppose I should have found annihilation to have been my beliefdeath forever, loss eternal.
Annihilation is a term which is not applicable to material things.
Should annihilation be the truth of things, and all the race mortal, then some day there would be a Last Man.
Well, he had a purpose: the annihilation of Cheditafa was at present his chief object in life.