Most everybody desperately wanted to go home, and insects and other small life forms were perishing from boredom.
Yet, Evelyn points out, this midwinter celebration skated over the chilling facts: the poor were perishing from cold and hunger, the next year's harvest was dead in the ground, and trees were dying.
Whilst the late war was carried on by means of impressed property, &c, the annual expense was estimated at about twenty millions of Dollars; at the same time that thousands of brave Citizens were perishing from the scarcity or quality of the supplies provided in that irregular way: to say nothing of the encouragement given by such a situation to the prolongation of the war.
Citing the probability of a nuclear disaster he pointed out that number of people die because of traffic accidents are far greater than the number that can be perished from a nuclear disasters.
Species are perishing en masse.
To paraphrase Lincoln, the government of the people, by the people, for the people, has been perishing undetected, rotting from the inside by the parasitic disease of lobbies and PACs who are the proxy decision makers.
As if Nature herself were perishing".
One has been perishing here so long!
Palestinians, he has declared, were "evil people who were to perish from the earth .But as he has become increasingly frail, his authority has begun to crumble.
This principle is discussed in detail in De caelo 1.12, at the end of a book arguing for the thesis that the eternal heavens need to be composed of a special celestial stuff, which is exempt from coming to be, perishing or change, and performs the celestial revolutions as its natural motion.
