4028 examples of perish in sentences

Hear me, thou, Thou Traytor, that darest confine thy King to things Possible and honest; shew her me, Or let me perish, if I cover not all Cicily with bloud.

Or let me perish loath'd.

A wretched creature wounded in these Woods By Beasts; relieve me, if your names be men, Or I shall perish.

Di. We'l scuffle hard before he perish.

Mighty Sir, I will not do your greatness so much wrong, As not to make your word truth; free the Princess, And the poor boy, and let me stand the shock Of this mad Sea breach, which I'le either turn Or perish with it.

The room in which I lay was a prison dungeon, and in it, in the olden times, it is said, men had been left to perish.

The Enemy still came on with greater Fury, and hoped by his Number of Men to carry the Prize, till at last the Englishman finding himself sink apace, and ready to perish, struck: But the Effect which this singular Gallantry had upon the Captain of the Privateer, was no other than an unmanly Desire of Vengeance for the Loss he had sustained in his several Attacks.

But particularly in that passionate Speech, where seeing her irrecoverably lost, he resolves to perish with her rather than to live without her.

Is it not then better to perish a thousand times than to be unable to live in one's own city without a guard of armed men?

And if now (but may the immortal gods avert the omen!) that worst of fates shall befall the republic, then, as brave gladiators take care to perish with honour, let us too, who are the chief men of all countries and nations, take care to fall with dignity rather than to live as slaves with ignominy.

The young girl clings passionately even to her grief, and rejects as an insult the idea that such deep regret can become less in all a lifetime,that love, immortal, vital, all-pervading, can perish from its prime, and flutter away into dust like the dead leaves of a rose.

The new inventions bring new calamities, and men perish in crowds by the recoil of their own devices.

Ah, the tempest I Cast away by fortune! Must the good one perish in this fashion? Might not he perchance *

Man is not meant, forsooth, to grow from the ground like a mushroom, Quickly to perish away on the spot of ground that begot him, Leaving no trace behind of himself and his animate action!

Trust me, the race of Tantalus is doom'd; And I, his last descendant, may not perish, Or crown'd with honor or unstain'd by crime.

IPHIGENIA Thou shalt not perish!

That she with us May also perish, nor her life prolong For heavier destiny and direr woe.

If slaveholders will not trade with us, unless we consent to be slaves ourselves, then let us leave their money, and their sugar, and their cotton, to perish with them.

And Esther bade them return Mordecai this answer:and so will I go in unto the king, which is not according to law, and if I perish, I perish."

And Esther bade them return Mordecai this answer:and so will I go in unto the king, which is not according to law, and if I perish, I perish."

Appealing to the great Ruler of the universe for the rectitude of their course, they pledged to each other "their lives, their fortunes and their sacred honor," to conquer or perish in their struggle to be free.

The spirit that would have chosen danger in preference to crime,to perish with justice rather than live with dishonor,to dare and suffer whatever might betide, rather than sacrifice the rights of one human being,could never have been subjugated by any mortal power.

The London and Plymouth companies did not perish until after state governments had been organized in the colonies already founded upon their territories.

Under the idea of striking terror into the minds of his subjects, by the force of example, and deterring them from revolting again, he inflicted the most dreadful punishment on those who had opposed his authority; some he caused to be hung up by the feet, and suffered to perish for want of sustenance; others, to be crucified at the gates of the city; and several high priests, and officers of state, he deprived of the blessing of sight.

Now the senate in general thought it shocking for a man of senatorial rank who was guilty of no crime and now well advanced in years to perish, and were all the more enraged because the dignity of the government was being attacked, and control of affairs was being entrusted to the vilest men.

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