Perished

Examples

• I am imperfectly consoled for this disappointment by the sacred pledge, the perished flower. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
• I have altogether perished from the remembrance of the living, and in the next generation my place was a blank. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
• They were of wood and have perished. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• It is called Death Valley because a party of emigrants perished there in 1849. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• In fine, the ship was lost, the crew perished. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
• And 'the secret has perished' with him; to this day the place of Utopia remains unknown. Plato. The Republic.
• He is a curious, interesting, and nearly perished link between obsolete forms of life and those which generally prevail. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
• The story he told was merely one of shipwreck in which all but a few had perished, the balance, except himself, dying after they reached the island. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
• In the time of Julius C?sar the larger of the famous libraries of Alexandria, containing, i t is computed, some 490,000 rolls, caught fire from ships burning in the harbor, and perished. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
• Seen near, it was a chaos--hollowhalf-consumed: an orb perished or perishing--half lava, half glow. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
• Every one of those had perished in the massacre; every human creature he had since cared for and parted with, had died on the scaffold. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
• A whole brood of our infants have perished in a moment by a keen blast! Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
• The great ones had perished, but these remained. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
• If Plato's 'pen' was as fatal as the Creches of Paris, or the foundling hospital of Dublin, more than nine-tenths of his children would have perished. Plato. The Republic.
• The Sergeant kindly lifted me up, and turned me away from the sight of the place where she had perished. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
• Perhaps it is historically true that no order of society ever perished save by its own hand. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• Their records had perished long ago by the plough, while the works of these remained. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
• Nothing which was not destroyed from within ever perished by external affection of evil. Plato. The Republic.
• In the water he could see the heads of Greeks swimming to land; but of the Barbarians the greater number perished in the sea, not knowing how to swim. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• Hopes have perished with him which can never return! Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
• Bonajutus assures us, that of 18,914 inhabitants, 18,000 perished therein. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
• Thousands of people perished at Norwich, while in Bristol the living were hardly able to bury the dead. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• The first jelly-like beginnings of life must have perished whenever they got out of the water, as jelly-fish dry up and perish on our beaches to-day. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• Twere better that ye perished in a Christian way than that ye plunged from off yon dizzy tower. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• It spread eastward to China, where, the Chinese records say, thirteen million people perished. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• It never occurred to him that the greater part of them, according to universal experience, would have perished. Plato. The Republic.
• It could go, and there would be no ABSOLUTE loss, if every human being perished tomorrow. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• For instance, 20,000 tons of iron rails required to be annually replaced, and 26 millions of wooden sleepers perished in the same time. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
• The Turks resisted to the last, the garrison perished on the ramparts, and we entered by assault. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• His coat is the color of ashes: and ashes are the symbol of hopes that have perished, of aspirations that came to nought, of loves that are buried. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.

Typist: Willie