perishableness
- a word derived from perishable.
Example Sentences
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It seemed as if a good genius with a gentle smile had raised him to a height from whence he could view at a single glance all the perishableness and emptiness of life.
From A Twofold Life by Hillern, Wilhelmine von
Webster" plead for us: "Alas for the perishableness of eloquence!
From Starr King in California by Simonds, William Day
But of time and of becoming shall the best similes speak: a praise shall they be, and a justification of all perishableness!
From Thus Spake Zarathustra A book for all and none by Nietzsche, Friedrich Wilhelm
You wrong me, my dear fellow, I was wholly mad--a frightful example of the perishableness of all manly virtues.
From The Children of the World by Heyse, Paul
Involved in that is the thought that all the limitations and weaknesses which are necessarily associated with the perishableness of the present abode are at an end for ever.
From Expositions of Holy Scripture: Romans Corinthians (To II Corinthians, Chap. V) by Maclaren, Alexander
