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  • adverb In an imperishable manner.

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Examples

  • Hulett unobtrusively, silently but indomitably pressed her way to the front of the legal profession, and established herself there, she vindicated the right of her sex to contend for the highest prizes of life, and left her countrywomen a legacy which will ultimately blazon her name imperishably in the history of the advancement of women; and every American woman who, like her, goes to the front of any honorable occupation, employment or profession, and stays there, becomes her coädjutor in work and a sharer in her reward.

    History of Woman Suffrage, Volume III (of III) Matilda Joslyn Gage 1862

  • To the student of the history of exploration, however, Port Lincoln is interesting even beyond the measure of its beauty; for there, in 1841, Sir John Franklin, then governor of Tasmania, erected at his own cost a monument to the honour of Flinders, his old commander, from whom he imbibed that passion for exploration which was in due time to place his own name imperishably amongst the glorious company of great English seamen.

    Terre Napoleón; a History of French Explorations and Projects in Australia Ernest Scott 1903

  • “We would not seek a battle as we are,” King Henry soon tells the French herald Montjoy, adding imperishably, “nor as we are, we say, we will not shun it.”

    The Pity of War 2009

  • “We would not seek a battle as we are,” King Henry soon tells the French herald Montjoy, adding imperishably, “nor as we are, we say, we will not shun it.”

    The Pity of War 2009

  • Normally this would be a signal for Hansard reporters to send for bulrushes to make into parchment in order to imperishably record every word.

    David Cameron – not just walking on eggshells but dancing on drawing pins 2011

  • What moral sublimity in the fact, as it stands imperishably recorded and filed in the national archives!

    Chris Rodda: No, Mr. Beck, Congress Did Not Print a Bible for the Use of Schools 2010

  • What moral sublimity in the fact, as it stands imperishably recorded and filed in the national archives!

    Chris Rodda: No, Mr. Beck, Congress Did Not Print a Bible for the Use of Schools 2010

  • If Churchill had not committed the Allies to the hideous expedition to Gallipoli, she would probably have married a young man — imperishably named Dick Doughty-Wylie — who lost his life on that arid and thorny peninsula.

    The Woman Who Made Iraq 2007

  • If Churchill had not committed the Allies to the hideous expedition to Gallipoli, she would probably have married a young man — imperishably named Dick Doughty-Wylie — who lost his life on that arid and thorny peninsula.

    The Woman Who Made Iraq 2007

  • If Churchill had not committed the Allies to the hideous expedition to Gallipoli, she would probably have married a young man — imperishably named Dick Doughty-Wylie — who lost his life on that arid and thorny peninsula.

    The Woman Who Made Iraq 2007

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