"Imperishable" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... is their debtor, and their work is a monument of imperishable glory to them and to their children. I ...
— The Clansman - An Historical Romance of the Ku Klux Klan • Thomas Dixon
... her to become his wife. The offspring of this union between Odin (mind) and Grid (matter) was Vidar, a son as strong as he was taciturn, whom the ancients considered a personification of the primaeval forest or of the imperishable forces of Nature. ...
— Myths of the Norsemen - From the Eddas and Sagas • H. A. Guerber
... hundred paces brought us to a kind of clearing, where I suppose some of the monster trees had fallen down in past years and never been allowed to grow up again. Here, placed upon the ground, were a number of boxes made of imperishable ironwood, and on the top of each box sat, or rather lay, a mouldering and ...
— Allan and the Holy Flower • H. Rider Haggard
... beyond precedent or example. That their bearing, one and all, was truly noble, friends and foes took pride in attesting.[11] It was a solemn and a glorious sight; and men, through all time, will turn to that Clonmel dock to learn the inestimable and imperishable value of sincere and lofty convictions and a ...
— The Felon's Track • Michael Doheny
... ratiocination, fortify their minds with philosophy, train them to habits of accuracy, patience, and perseverance by long scientific research; and at the moment when I ought to find them useful as philosophers, as seekers after eternal Truth, as lovers of imperishable Wisdom, they degenerate into seekers after eyes and hair and cheeks, and I know not what nonsense, lovers of frail, perishable women, who appear to preserve an astonishing longevity on purpose to plague and ...
— Atlantic Monthly, Volume 8, Issue 49, November, 1861 • Various
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