Word: perisher
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...Times, "is whether, and, if so, in what shape, it will reform . . . Very few societies have done this trick twice. None, except perhaps the Greek, with Athens, Alexandria and Byzantium to its credit, has done it a third time. The English have to do it a third time or perish...
...strong that the Indian government calls him "the Nizam's Frankenstein monster." "I will, I must defend the rights of the Moslems even against H.E.H. [His Exalted Highness] himself," said Razvi recently. "If India attacks us I can and will create a turmoil throughout India. We will perish but India will perish also...
...found the woman? She had written him a letter-here he triumphantly produced a letter with a Haverstraw postmark-and had smuggled it out in a "vegetable cart." He opened the letter and recited a dramatic line: "Once more I beg you not to let me perish here...
...deliver a good deal of ornate language in his deep-city Irish-American diction, very good of itself, but inappropriate here. The total effect of the picture is "entertainment" troubled by delusions of "art," and vice versa. Comedy, whether high or low, is the quickest thing there is to perish under pretension...
...cynical to say that His Majesty had better perish in beauty, when his whole life has been beautiful...