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The proper Persians, though but few in number, alone stood their ground and even when Tigranes himself was slain, resolutely fought on until the Lacedaemonians entered the intrenchment, and all who had survived the Athenian, perished by the Spartan, sword.
Newly imported negroes frequently perished, if they were carried up into the southern range of mountains; and the dependent Creole was forced to abandon places where the slave could not go. It would be singular, if a place of such marked natural features, and with such phenomena of climate, should have no perceptible effects upon the Eastern races of all kinds which have been transported there.
What doleful misereres must first ascend to cloud the brightness of the heavens and dim the joy of the blest! Long, long before then, your and my remembrance, Faith, will have perished from the earth.
Four months after, I heard that the ship in which he had sailed had been wrecked, and as I never heard from him again I could only conclude that my faithful servant had perished amidst the waves. Amongst my London letters I found two from the infamous mother of the infamous Charpillon, and one from the girl herself.
This vision in turn also disappeared and before the gazing Mongols stood only the mysterious Kalmuck with his hand upraised. "To battle and return not without victory! I am with you in the fight." The attack began. The Mongols fought furiously, perished by the hundreds but not before they had rushed into the heart of Kobdo.
To this supposed impurity of motive the more bigoted Puritans were inclined to impute the removal by death of all the children for whose earthly good the father had been over-thoughtful. They had left their native country blooming like roses, and like roses they had perished in a foreign soil.
And there was Mount Hope Cemetery, where thousands who had perished from fever had been buried. "The doctors have cleaned out the fever now," he said, "by cleaning out the mosquitoes the poison kind with the long name," he added. "The Canal Zone is about as healthy now as the city of New York." Then came thickets where the trees were tied together with vines and creepers, all in gorgeous bloom.
They might have perished in one of several ways; as the naked reef did not lie precisely to leeward of the ship, the boats may have driven by it, in the deep darkness of the past night, and gone far away out of sight of the spot where they had left the vessel, long ere the return of day.
"God, madam," said the preacher, "has restored the child to your wishes; it must be yours so to bring him up, that he may not one day wish that he had perished in his innocence."
He is said by some to have been the son of a notary, by others the freedman of a senator named Anulinus. He entered the army at an early age, and rose gradually to rank; he served in Gaul, in Moesia, under Probus, and was present at the campaign against the Persians, in which Carus, then emperor, perished in a mysterious manner.
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