But those crimson drops: were they not the blood of the men who had perished miserably while endeavoring to wrest its marvels from the tropical forests of that great island?
Seeley says: "The Roman Empire perishedfor want of men.
Three million men--the elite of Europe--perished in the Napoleonic wars.
Some perished while trying to tramp northward to Nelson, and some died in the woods, after a vain endeavour to save their miserable lives by cannibalism.
Greene perished miserably among the Indians, and his body was thrown into the sea.
So perished Captain Zachariah Gillam, whom we first met as master of the Nonsuch, the pioneer of all the ships that have since sailed into the Bay in the service of the Hudson's Bay Company.
Jugurtha, and the friends of Catiline, perished in these cells; it is even said that St. Peter and St. Paul were confined there.
A young woman was attacked; her friends and family refused to fly, and perished with her.
They who have despised God's threats and angry countenance with security and defiance have at last experienced the fulfillment of these warnings and perished thereby.
In the fourth admonition, the apostle says, "Neither let us make trial of the Lord, as some of them made trial, and perished by the serpents.
Neither let us make trial of the Lord, as some of them made trial, and perished by the serpents.
Neither murmur ye, as some of them murmured, and perished by the destroyer.
Nevertheless, the more I look at you, the greater resemblance I find to an old friend of mine, who twelve years since perished on the top of a neighboring mountain.
In a few days he began to mend, but was still too feeble to get up and go in search of fodder; and thus he perished miserably of hunger owing to the thoughtlessness of his friends.
In 1592, Cobo was sent by Dasmarinas as ambassador to Japan; having fulfilled his commission he set out on the return to Manila, and is supposed to have perished by shipwreck, as nothing more was ever known of him or his ship.
They were drowned, and perished in the sea without leaving anyone to carry the news.
The individuality which was condemned in the judgment of Osiris perished eternally, and in the mind of the Egyptian the individuality and the individual were one and the same.
The past was preserved in a way that it could not be elsewhere; nothing perishedexcept by the hand of man.
The fisherman perished in his bark, while the salt waves inundated the land and ravaged the fields of the husbandman.
The vineyards of Amanus and the Lebanon were rooted up, and those who cultivated them perished from the earth.
Objects and monuments which would have perished in other countries were preserved almost in their pristine freshness by the climate under which he lived.
Tammuz had perished by an untimely death, and it was fitting that the death of the god should be celebrated when nature also seemed to die.
This work received the support of all the learned men of the time, but the undertaking was the ruin of its author, and a great part of the impression perished in the destruction of Roycroft's premises in the Great Fire of 1666.
The memorable storm here alluded to took place in November, 1703, and Bishop Kidder and his lady perished in their bed at the episcopal palace at Wells by the fall of a stack of chimneys.
His son perished by the guillotine in January 1794.
In February, the city of Casal Nuova was entirely swallowed up; and the Princess Gerace Grimaldi, with more than four thousand persons, perished in an instant.
The Duchess perishedunder the guillotine in the following year.
Hundreds of local unions suffered and many a one perished outright for want of attention.
Thus perished noble Fannie Sellins: shot in the back by so-called peace officers.
For it numberless victims had perished wherever the tyrannical rule of the Inquisition was exercised.
The power of attraction was lacking in the society, and as only a few joined, it perished at its birth.
With them will perish--has perished one of the oldest and proudest names in our country.
The name--the old name is perished from the face of the earth.
Thousands and thousands of brave troops perished in this fatal retreat.
Millions of individuals have wept and toiled and perished to secure for us the present; we and millions shall weep and toil and perish to secure the future for them.
He was the son of a wealthy merchant, whose entire fortune had perished in one of our great commercial crises, and whose death had followed close upon his ruin.
But more definite intelligence soon arrived, and before we quitted Breuil it had been placed beyond a doubt that three Englishmen, with a guide named Tairraz, had perished on the col.
You know, the man they said had perished five hundred miles on the other side of the Pole.
Dyke and his two companions had perished on their way back to the base.
In 1144, it was commanded by a Flemish Monk, who preferred the spear to the crosier, but who perished by an arrow in the contest.
It had perished two centuries ago, with the hand that had struck its chords.
Such ancient volumes of topography are invaluable--as preserving the memory of things and of objects, which, but for such record, had perished without the hope or chance of recovery.
In the case, however, of animals not hired for a consideration, equity demanded that he should receive something by way of restitution at least to the value of the hire of the animal that had perished or deteriorated.
As regards animals granted in loan, the Law enacted that if, through the neglect of the person to whom they were lent, they perished or deteriorated in his absence, he was bound to make restitution.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "perished" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: dead; defunct; expired; extinct; gone; vanished
