Example Sentences

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It starts the current in that wireless system of vibrations that travel unperishing, undiminished, from the dead to the living.

From A Journal of Impressions in Belgium by Sinclair, May

When her husband told her that he was condemned to the scaffold, she congratulated him upon the speedy termination of an existence so painful, and the unperishing reward that should crown it.

From Lives of Celebrated Women by Goodrich, Samuel G. (Samuel Griswold)

Which ends the being of a dubious life, My better part unperishing shall mount Above the loftiest stars.

From The Metamorphoses of Publius Ovidus Naso in English blank verse Vols. I & II by Howard, J. J.

Her barren rocks stoop through wooded promontories to the plain; and the wreaths of the vine show through their green shadows the wan light of unperishing snow.

From Modern Painters Volume I (of V) by Ruskin, John

There is a saying among men   That to the heavens unperishing mount the souls   Of good men, and to nether darkness sink   Souls of the wicked.

From The Fall of Troy by Way, Arthur Sanders