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  • First will I perrish in this liquid round, Neuer shall Sunne-burnt _Spanyards_ tongue endeare _Iberian_ eares with what shall me confound, The life I haue, I for my Mistris beare, Curst were that life, should it her scepter wound, And trebble cursed be that damned thought,

    The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003

  • C. Swett from the meetin 'house steeple up to th' old perrish, an 'took up for dead but he 's alive now an' spry as wut you be.

    The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 17, No. 103, May, 1866 Various

  • An 'when nine tenths o' th 'perrish took to tumblin' roun 'an' hollerin ',

    The Complete Poetical Works of James Russell Lowell James Russell Lowell 1855

  • C. Swett from the meetin 'house steeple up to th' old perrish, an 'took up for dead but he's alive now an' spry as wut you be.

    The Complete Poetical Works of James Russell Lowell James Russell Lowell 1855

  • Wee were also so hem'd in on all sides with Ice, that wee could neither go forward nor get to Land, yet wee must get over the Ice or perrish.

    Voyages of Peter Esprit Radisson Pierre Esprit Radisson 1673

  • It makes you think you may not perrish in the dessert should your car breakdown and there is no phone reception.

    TravelPod.com Recent Updates 2009

  • JOHN WALL 3: 16 - For God so loved Big Blue Nation, that he gave his only son, that who so ever believed in him shall not perrish but have an everlasting March … Amen

    Kentucky Sports Radio 2009

  • New England Interloper was in the same river hee was, & that in long running hee might discover the truth of all that I had discoursed & concealed from him, & also that hee might come to understand that wee had not the strength that I boasted of, I thought it fit to prevent Danger; & the best way was to assure my self of the New England shipp in making myself master of her; for had Mr. Bridgar ben beforehand with mee, hee would have ben too strong for me, & I had ben utterly unable to resist him; but the question was how to effect this businesse, wherin I see manifest difficultys; but they must bee surmounted, or wee must perrish.

    Voyages of Peter Esprit Radisson Pierre Esprit Radisson 1673

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