My children all are dead, and my dreams for them-and Judhael, my only other kin, will also shortly perish.

The dream of Empire had not perished in Sartain.

I saw no way out; it seemed I must die there, perish all my dreams of pageantry and glory and the bright splendor and adventure.

In the coming months, and years, many ordinary dreams will perish.

And only as being becomes not, will they know that the God of Abraham lay dormant while the dream perished in a blink.

So perished the Urgan Nagru and his dreams of conquest.

This is a difficult mission in the shadow of her recent death, but I swore not to let the dreams of our beloved Priestess perish with her.

Significantly the dream of an Imperial organic entity perished on the very battlefields of Flanders where the self-governing Dominions did apparently fight 'for their common interests':

A billion dreams have already perished.

Our lord's dream will perish.