4028 examples of perishing in sentences

At that time, religious liberty was in danger of perishing in France, assailed by the powerful opposition of the tribunals and the administration.

Russia seethes with hatred and is perishing of its poison, while there is not another country in Europe, of those that were involved in the war, where the same is not true in varying degrees; hatred of race for race, of nation for nation, of class for class, of one social or industrial or economic or political institution for another.

But if you do not, consider that the times of opportunity are perishing, and that whatever pains you take about yourself, you are going to waste them all and overturn them.

Should he turn aside, if only for a moment, from the following of the star, to give a cup of cold water to a poor, perishing Hebrew? "God of truth and purity," he prayed, "direct me in the holy path, the way of wisdom which Thou only knowest.

CHAPTER VIII CASTING THE BAIT Loving and perishing: these have tallied from eternity.

Strange that a man should have the heart to joke, who had been thus "cabin'd, cribb'd, confin'd," during five days, destitute of food, deprived of air, agitated by suspense, and in jeopardy of perishing by the most horrible of all deaths!

Close byin the same chapelis a little door which the sacristan will open, disclosing a portion of Arnolfo's building with perishing frescoes which are attributed to Buffalmacco, an artist as to whose reality much scepticism prevails.

I am perishing.

Mullern could not forbear adding to this, that he doubted not but the persons who had incensed his highness into groundless surmises, were also the same who had hindered her, by some false insinuations or other, from continuing the allowance her charity allowed them, and for the want of which they had since been near perishing.

In fact, countless millions of the lower forms of life are perishing every hour because of the lack of possibility of adjustment.

He had fallen into the hands of the enemy; he had been retained for months on board of their vessel; and when a storm had arisen, and hope was gone, he had saved her from being lost and her crew from perishing.

But the conquest was incomplete, for everywhere stood those stubborn roots, six and eight and ten feet across, contending with man for its primal heritage, the soil, perishing slowly as perish the proud remnants of a conquered race.

"How can you pray for Christ's kingdom to come while you are neglecting a people perishing for lack of vision around your very doors."

In behalf of the perishing, Your friend and brother, WILLIAM.

The slaveholders and slave laws claim that as property, which the free States know only as persons, a reasoning property, which, of its own will and mere motion, is frequently found in our States; and upon which THING we sometimes bestow food and raiment, if it appear hungry and perishing, believing it to be a human being; this perhaps is owing to our want of vision to discover the process by which a man is converted into a THING.

We separate from them not in anger, not in malice, not for a selfish purpose, not to do them an injury, not to cease warning, exhorting, reproving them for their crimes, not to leave the perishing bondman to his fateO no!

Still, they stood in awe of him and put the matter off, fearing that although he had no guard they might be killed by the persons surrounding him at various times; and thus they ran the risk of being discovered and perishing.

Memory fades, must the remembered Perishing be?

Yet, now that the great hope was gone on which his brain had worked with rigid, fierce intentness, now that his hands were powerless to redeem a perishing class, he had time to fall into careless, kindly habit: he thought it wasted time, remorsefully, of course.

But whenever this inevitable picture grew before Wade's eyes, as the drowning figure of his fancy vanished, it suddenly changed features, and presented the face of Mary Damer, perishing beyond succor.

Thousands upon thousands of people were perishing needlessly every year for the lack of surgical intervention.

Many others had been driven out of the towns into forests or waste places on the larger islands, where they were perishing miserably from fever and other diseases.

I am stagnating, perishing.

From the plain text, "The chemist of love Will this perishing mould, Were it made out of mire, Transmute into gold," or, from another favorite legend of his chemistry, "They say, through patience, chalk Becomes a ruby stone; Ah, yes, but by the true heart's blood

We cannot accept the former, for it involves the ruin of perishing souls.

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