perishing

In "the haste of the workers, the feeling for form itself, the ear and eye for the melody of movements are [. . .] perishing."

In these days he got dead drunk on oatmeal porridge, while he produced a perishing ecstasy on bread and milk.

The Indian knew not then who he was, nor why he had ventured so far into the desert at the risk of perishing.

Most of the men who sought other shelter went to the saloons and by the big red-hot stoves kept from perishing.