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Frank J. Wilstach, comp.  A Dictionary of Similes.  1916.
 
Perish
 
  Perish … like a microbe in hot water.
            —Anonymous		  1
  Perish, through their over-confidence, like Icarus.
            —Francis Bacon		  2
  Perish, as the quickening breath of God … is withdrawn.
            —William Cullen Bryant		  3
They perish as a robe outworn,
As faded leaves they float away.
            —Lord De Tabley		  4
  Perish like leaves.
            —Ralph Waldo Emerson		  5
  Perish as the summer fly.
            —Henry Arthur Jones		  6
  Perisheth, and is past by, like the Pearle in the Fable.
            —Ben Jonson		  7
Perished with him like a rocket which falls
And quenches its light in earth.
            —Edgar Lee Masters		  8
                Perishing,
As though they were but things of dust and ashes.
            —James Montgomery		  9
  Perished like the pageant of a dream.
            —Thomas L. Peacock		  10
  Perished like some gift of earth.
            —Friedrich von Schiller		  11
  Perish, as haze in sunrise on the red sea-line.
            —Algernon Charles Swinburne		  12
  Perish as the snow built up of sleep.
            —Algernon Charles Swinburne		  13
  Perish forever like his own dung.
            —Old Testament		  14
 
 
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