In short, it is reported that very often forty or fifty men, being spent with want, would go together to some precipice, or to the sea-shore, and there hand in hand perish by the fall, or be swallowed up by the waves.

God forbid that I should permit such an infamy!" "Let the old perish for the young!"

We all remember how it fared with the quaint old monarch and moralist when he tried the plan of the immortals, and commanded the sea to obey himwe perish if we arrogate too much when the surges sweep around us; but we can, we must avoid them if we hope to escape their force, and plant ourselves beyond them firmly on the shore.

The body was half covered with sand, and in the attitude in which we had seen her perish.

Persicos odi puer apparatus: "Excess of meat breedeth sickness, and gluttony causeth choleric diseases: by surfeiting many perish, but he that dieteth himself prolongeth his life,"

How fervently I wish thou mightest inherit the word of that apostle whose episcopal seat thou hast acquired, of him who said, 'Thy gold perish with thee.'