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- verb obsolete Simple past tense and past participle of
perish .
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Examples
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Before their eyes, and the blood perisht in them, which might be placed side by side with Marlowe's:
Personality in Literature Rolfe Arnold Scott-James
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_Spaniards_ conquer'd the place, most of them were destroy'd and the art perisht with them, onely they held some Traditions yet of a few
To the Gold Coast for Gold A Personal Narrative in Two Volumes.—Volume I Richard Francis Burton 1855
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Failed of its feathers, fell to earth, and perisht of a sheer despair;
The Kasidah of Haji Abdu El-Yezdi Richard Francis Burton 1855
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While to a thankless mind entrusted all of them perisht.
The Carmina of Caius Valerius Catullus Gaius Valerius Catullus 1855
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Oh yes, he has perisht still more cruelly, he is much more unhappy than my cat with her kittens, that he shot so barbarously on the orange tree.
The Old Man of the Mountain, The Lovecharm and Pietro of Abano Tales from the German of Tieck Ludwig Tieck 1813
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And in the Schoolmens hands it perisht quite at last.
The Blogora 2009
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