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Definition of Perishers
1. perisher [n] - See also: perisher
Lexicographical Neighbors of Perishers
Literary usage of Perishers
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The First Hundred Thousand: Being the Unofficial Chronicle of a Unit of "K (1)," by Ian Hay (1916)
"... they say that if the personal liberty of these sacred perishers is interfered
with by the Overbearing Militarist Oligarchy aforesaid, there will be a ..."
2. Rhymes of a Red Cross Man by Robert William Service (1916)
"I've seen so much of bloody death I don't seem for to care, If I can only even
up, how soon the blighters get me. I'm sorry for them perishers that corpses ..."
3. War of the Classes by Jack London (1905)
"They refuse to be the " glad perishers " so glowingly described by Nietzsche.
It remains to be seen how promptly the capitalist class will respond to the ..."
4. The Definite Object: A Romance of New York by Jeffery Farnol (1917)
"What ain't to be — yet, is to be sometime, I 'opes," sighed Joe. " Good-by, Guv,
good-by!" croaked the Old Un, " if I don't put some o' they perishers in ..."
5. The Definite Object: A Romance of New York by Jeffery Farnol (1917)
"cried the Old Un, apostrophising these legs, " Joe, stop bein' a crawlin' worm —
come out an' bash these perishers for me, like a good lad! ..."
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