Example Sentences

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As if it were a perishably precious thing, he slipped the square card within its envelope and buttoned the whole within his coat.

From Once to Every Man by Fischer, Anton Otto

Unseen the immortal ones are here, Remembering their mortal loves— The strange, sweet flesh, the lips that were Frail and most perishably fair.

From Poems by Stuart, Muriel