Perishing gloomily, Spurr'd by contumely, Cold inhumanity, Burning insanity, Into her rest.
She seemed at once to be protecting herself against his theory and blinding her sight to her own perishing and thwarted woman-hood.
The world was perishing for want of a new faith: the new faith was here.
Here was work for the idle, hope for the hopeless, a faith for them who were perishing for want of a faith.
I--who have given myself the airs of a Lauzun or a Brummel--am perishing for the love of a woman who doesn't even know how to put on her gloves!
The weak unhappy child is perishing for want of some duty to perform upon this earth; some necessary task to keep her busy from day to day, and to make a link between her husband and herself.
Indignantly Hector informs his brother the Trojans are perishing without the walls in defence of the quarrel he kindled, but which he is too cowardly to uphold!
And I sped away in agony, for now I knew how deep was the wrath upon me, that it was not for me so much as to stretch my accursed hand to perishing men to save them.
I thought of the people of this island perishing in their sickness, and I remembered that I alone of all men here knew how to succor and save them.
Then the Bishop walked over his "Pyrenees," and saw that the food for which his people hungered was perishing before their eyes.
The miserable sailors have long been perishing about the streets with hunger and cold; and why, then, has no measure of relief for them been adopted until now?
But, the numbers who have perished and who are perishing from the diseases occasioned by want are not to be counted.
Daring neither to venture abroad nor to eat the native fruits and leaves, exhausted by exposure, perishing of hunger and thirst, we faced a future that was dark indeed.
But although we were nearly perishing with fatigue, they urged by signs that we follow them, and so insistent were they that we reluctantly obeyed.
Many and striking are the examples of free States perishing under that excess of patronage which now afflicts ours.
I cannot bear the thoughts of their perishing if it is possible to save them.
He might have said much better than many, which, over-laden and leaky, go helplessly down into the depths of the ocean without any land in sight or help near, the hapless crew perishing miserably.
As he stepped into the Court he felt that the coward spirit had left him, and that he had received power to intercede with the Almighty for perishing souls.
I had heard of missionary gentlemen visiting other places," she replied, "and about two months ago it was laid on my heart to pray for my perishing neighbours, and I cried day and night unto the Lord.
I saw him, the best of men, perishing amid contumely and disease.
The goodwife touched, with a perishing hope, and rather as a matter of form, upon the subject of cooking.
It seems those men had been marching three days, and on top of that had fought at Beaumont like tigers; hence they were perishing with hunger, their eyes were starting from their sockets, they were beside themselves.
We are perishing with hunger; we want something to eat.
There were none but Prussians at the farm, however, together with a woman servant and her child, just come in from the woods, where they had been near perishing of thirst and hunger.
Mr. Brown, hearing the commotion and perishing of curiosity, demanded that some one should come and help him out of bed.
He was perishing with curiosity about this astonishing change of front on the part of Mr. Brown, but it was a delicate situation in which it seemed best not to meddle.
The Sans-Pareil did not get in till the next day, after having been twenty times upon the point of perishing by fire and tempest.
Fever and sickness broke out in the English ships and the followers of bold Drake died by hundreds, "sickening one day and perishing the next.
The whole Dutch fleet seemed now to be but one blaze, and the cries of so many miserable wretches who were perishing either by fire or water was more frightful than the noise of the cannon.
Of these, no fewer than 29 foundered at sea or were wrecked, a large proportion of their crews perishing with them.
The smoke of perishing towns arose everywhere in the Iroquois country, while the Iroquois themselves fled before the advancing army.
Henry and Paul, as they lay on their blankets one night, counted fires in three different directions, and every one of the three marked a perishing Indian village.
Then he would grip his heart with his hand, and strive to set his whole body in motion, as though he were perishing with cold, and hasten to shift his eyes to a fresh place, and again to another.
O Lord, have mercy on those who areperishing at sea!
