"Perish" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... passed on to ten in the evening, when a thing happened which, to the minds of many in England, exemplified the law of God—that the wicked shall perish through their own evil devices. Wishing to have all in readiness should the officers come upon them during the night, and fearing that the gunpowder with which they were provided might have become dampened by reason of the humidity of the weather and its prolonged exposure ...
— The Fifth of November - A Romance of the Stuarts • Charles S. Bentley
... words together!... Fantomas and Pity!"... A furious anger seized the bandit. "Fantomas knows not what mercy is, I tell you!... Fantomas ordains that whoso resist him shall perish—shall disappear!" ...
— A Nest of Spies • Pierre Souvestre
... who sees a man perish, consumed by the fire she has kindled, and who does not allay that fire, is, in my ...
— Ten Years Later • Alexandre Dumas, Pere
... then secur'd him, when I sought with joy The vow'd destruction of ungrateful Troy. My will's the same: fair goddess, fear no more, Your fleet shall safely gain the Latian shore; Their lives are giv'n; one destin'd head alone Shall perish, and for multitudes atone." Thus having arm'd with hopes her anxious mind, His finny team Saturnian Neptune join'd, Then adds the foamy bridle to their jaws, And to the loosen'd reins permits the laws. High on the waves his azure car he guides; Its axles thunder, and ...
— The Aeneid • Virgil
... ye those infants crouching by the floor, Like phantom dreams, pale nurslings, that have perish'd ...
— Athens: Its Rise and Fall, Complete • Edward Bulwer-Lytton
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