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Usage examples of "perit".

Quando prosperus et jucundus, Amicorum es fecundus, Si fortuna perit, Nullus amicus erit.

It is strong and steadfast, though, and in time is always victorious over its menial opposition, for what is history but the past tense of truth, and it is justly said that veritas numquam perit, truth never dies.

Clezo the Rodian, Wumdi the Etti, Perit the Mon Calamari, Green the Human.

The droid who could pass as a woman sauntered past Wumdi the Etti and Perit the Mon Calamari.

Quando prosperus et jucundus, Amicorum es fecundus, Si fortuna perit, Nullus amicus erit.

It then became necessary to sell them by their weight in perits, a small weight less than a grain.

A tulip of the species called Admiral Liefken, weighing 400 perits, was worth 4400 florins.

The Hunter's people used the perits to perform actions which their own semi-liquid bodies lacked the strength to do, and which were too delicate for their intelligent hosts to perform—or which had to be performed in places which had brought the Hunter to earth.