Meanings of perish under in English

If I cannot tear my chains apart, I will perish under them!

Till then you'll stand up and show yourself, if your feet perish under you.

I owe myself at least that; then I must let her perish under my contempt.

The most favorable designs would perish under your management.

Without this power all civilisations tend to perish under a load of language and ritual.

Even the solid parts perish under pressure.

Aloud he said, Well, the young fellow could hardly leave you to perish under the horse's heels.

Do not many men perish under the shock of the sudden expansion of some moral acid within them?

It is far better to die in an effort to defeat that tyranny than to perish under its success.

What mysterious cause is it that enables me to write this, and not to perish under the horrible apprehension!

Truly my mother hath deceived me, saying that I should perish under the walls of Troy by the arrows of Apollo.

How many unperfected resolves, unachieved careers, unaccomplished ambitions, immatured discoveries, perish under the rapidity of time, as unripe fruits fall before their season!

We may perish under the war-storm, and our names be no longer remembered by good men, nor be repeated in the dance and song.

Better a thousand times that the human race should perish under his thunderbolts than it should say, "Evil, be thou my good."

The Suffet's mildness was only a bait to capture them; those who surrendered would be sold as slaves, and the vanquished would perish under torture.

The poor lad must have perished under the rough treatment of the soldiers.