I said I was perishing for a word of advice or an accent of comfort. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特.维莱特.
He felt himself perishing slowly in unpitied misery. 乔治·艾略特.米德尔马契.
The floor is bare, except that one old mat, trodden to shreds of rope-yarn, lies perishing upon the hearth. 查尔斯·狄更斯.荒凉山庄.
The Rhineland children tramped into Italy, many perishing by the way, and there dispersed. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯.世界史纲.
That the knowledge at which geometry aims is knowledge of the eternal, and not of aught perishing and transient. 柏拉图.理想国.
Seen near, it was a chaos--hollowhalf-consumed: an orb perished or perishing--half lava, half glow. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特.维莱特.
You were not out in the perishing night, I hope, father? 查尔斯·狄更斯.我们共同的朋友.
Mrs. Yeobright glanced around at the dark sky, at the hills, at the perishing bonfires, and at the lighted window of the inn they had neared. 托马斯·哈代.还乡.
I thought of the thousands and thousands of perishing human creatures who were all at that moment spiritually ill, without knowing it themselves. 威尔基·柯林斯.月亮宝石.
It was impossible to see these crowds of wretched, perishing creatures, late nurslings of luxury, and not stretch out a hand to save them. 玛丽·雪莱.最后一个人.
She ascended to her old position at the top, where the red coals of the perishing fire greeted her like living eyes in the corpse of day. 托马斯·哈代.还乡.
To many in those dark days it seemed that all learning and all that made life seemly and desirable was perishing. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯.世界史纲.