The southern army, trapped in that wasteland first by snow and cold and then by an ocean of mud, perished.

Whatever the cause, the southern army perished.

He brought out the framed certificate the army sent after his son perished, clutching it to his bony chest.

It seemed as though some great army had perished here.

Upon his death the Syrian army fled and mostly perished in the desert.

Their great armies had perished with them.

The Chinese panicked, Li Guang-li gave up, and his whole army has perished.

"I must, or the army will perish."

This army must be moved at once, or perish.

It beat softly on the drums of his ears, and it said to him continually that his army must make a supreme effort or perish.