Sentence examples for perished of from inspiring English sources

Numbers also had perished of famine in the interior owing to the contests that were carried on.

In filthy, airless, overcrowded holds, they perished of disease and starvation; there are accounts of men so hungry they gnawed their own flesh.

"Luckily, before I perished of boredom, the dean of the college wrote to me to say there was a job opening for me," Clarke said recently.

It's not for nothing that the great Russian novelist Ivan Goncharov's beguiling behemoth of boredom, the endearing Ilya Oblomov, perished of a stroke after a long lifetime of ignoring boredom's siren signals.

It was on this journey that Rae received from Eskimos at Pelly Bay the first news that the members of the Franklin expedition had perished of exposure and starvation.

Mary was previously married to King Francis II of France, though historians aren't sure if the marriage was consummated: he was a sickly youngster of just 15 when they wed, and soon perished of a brain abscess.

To admit that that past was truly unreachable, or worse, that it never existed, was to perish of despair.

When the bombs don't get us, we perish of water-borne diseases, as we drink the dirty water.

And ends: It might be easier To fail — with Land in Sight — Than gain — My Blue Peninsula — To perish — of Delight What was Cornell's blue peninsula?

"We have art lest we perish of the truth".

I would wish all I love to perish of that gentle disease".