Wife and the children are just perishing to look at you.

The number of deaths remains unknown, but at least 283 men, women and children perished.

If she didn't do something, the children would perish.

Nearby lived a woman eight of whose nine children had perished from diphtheria.

Since the introduction of the serum, not a single child had perished.

I beg you please don't let my children perish.

Three other children had perished from starvation en route, he said.

"The crime rate is very high, families are broken because of the conditions, our children are perishing."

She did not like this at first, often making references to grisly ways the child could perish.

Perhaps it would provide a measure of consolation to know that these children haven't perished for no reason.