Perishing

Examples

• I said I was perishing for a word of advice or an accent of comfort. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
• He felt himself perishing slowly in unpitied misery. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• The floor is bare, except that one old mat, trodden to shreds of rope-yarn, lies perishing upon the hearth. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• The Rhineland children tramped into Italy, many perishing by the way, and there dispersed. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• That the knowledge at which geometry aims is knowledge of the eternal, and not of aught perishing and transient. Plato. The Republic.
• Seen near, it was a chaos--hollowhalf-consumed: an orb perished or perishing--half lava, half glow. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
• You were not out in the perishing night, I hope, father? Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• Mrs. Yeobright glanced around at the dark sky, at the hills, at the perishing bonfires, and at the lighted window of the inn they had neared. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
• I thought of the thousands and thousands of perishing human creatures who were all at that moment spiritually ill, without knowing it themselves. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
• It was impossible to see these crowds of wretched, perishing creatures, late nurslings of luxury, and not stretch out a hand to save them. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• She ascended to her old position at the top, where the red coals of the perishing fire greeted her like living eyes in the corpse of day. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
• To many in those dark days it seemed that all learning and all that made life seemly and desirable was perishing. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.

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