Adjective : perishable fruits and vegetables.    From Dictionary.com. 

Perhaps their perishableness was the excuse for allowing their sale on the.    From Wordnik.com.  [Expositions of Holy Scripture Second Kings Chapters VIII to End and Chronicles, Ezra, and Nehemiah. Esther, Job, Proverbs, and Ecclesiastes] Reference

For we can have no adequate idea of their duration (by the last Prop.), and this is what we must understand by the contingency and perishableness of things.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Ethics] Reference

Yet, even in the midst of all this, the same dark thoughts had presented themselves; the perishableness of myself and all around me every instant recurred to my mind.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 10, No. 262, July 7, 1827] Reference

For what is accidental is capable of not being present, but perishableness is one of the attributes that belong of necessity to the things to which they belong; or else one and the same thing may be perishable and imperishable, if perishableness is capable of not belonging to it.    From Wordnik.com.  [Metaphysics] Reference

'In perusing these old catalogues one cannot help being astonished at the sudden and great increase of books; and when one reflects that a great, perhaps the greater, part of them no longer exists, this perishableness of human labours will excite the same sensations as those which arise in the mind when one reads in a church-yard the names and titles of persons long since mouldered into dust.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Book-Hunter at Home] Reference

Thus are ye advocates and justifiers of all perishableness.    From Wordnik.com.  [Thus Spake Zarathustra A book for all and none] Reference

Time and their own "inherent perishableness" soon remove all traces of the poetasters.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Joyful Heart] Reference

But of time and of becoming shall the best similes speak: a praise shall they be, and a justification of all perishableness!.    From Wordnik.com.  [Thus Spake Zarathustra A book for all and none] Reference

But in that we bury this treasure together with it, we do it in the remembrance -- in this most enduring of works -- of the perishableness of all human things.    From Wordnik.com.  [The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Volume 02 Masterpieces of German Literature Translated into English. in Twenty Volumes] Reference

Involved in that is the thought that all the limitations and weaknesses which are necessarily associated with the perishableness of the present abode are at an end for ever.    From Wordnik.com.  [Expositions of Holy Scripture: Romans Corinthians (To II Corinthians, Chap. V)] Reference

New objects will intermingle, and we are compelled to draw from our grief itself a fresh proof of the perishableness of earthly things: alas, then, that our grief is transient!.    From Wordnik.com.  [Famous Stories Every Child Should Know] Reference

Man reflects deeply, and with feelings of a mortified nature, upon the perishableness of his frame, and the approaching close, so far as depends upon the evidence of our senses, of his existence.    From Wordnik.com.  [Thoughts on Man: His Nature, Productions, and Discoveries] Reference

How strangely, after all this, with the sense so vividly impressed on her of mutability and perishableness, must Ottilie have been affected by the news which could not any longer be kept concealed from her, that.    From Wordnik.com.  [The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Volume 02 Masterpieces of German Literature Translated into English. in Twenty Volumes] Reference

But in view of the instability and perishableness of mortal things, we should be continually on the look-out for some to love and by whom to be loved; for if we lose affection and kindliness from our life, we lose all that gives it charm.    From Wordnik.com.  [Treatises on Friendship and Old Age] Reference

His condition was unchanged, -- the wan beams of the early clay falling cross his features intensified their waxen stillness and pallor, -- the awful majesty of death was on him, -- the pathetic helplessness and perishableness of Body without Spirit.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ardath] Reference

Had railroad facilities been abundant a multitude of small cultivators might have shipped their cane to central mills for manufacture, but as things were the weight and the perishableness of the cane made milling within the reach of easy cartage imperative.    From Wordnik.com.  [American Negro Slavery A Survey of the Supply, Employment and Control of Negro Labor as Determined by the Plantation Regime] Reference

And further, according to your own doctrine, mere Being, i.e. Brahman, would hold the position of an object with regard to the instruments of knowledge; and thus there would cling to it all the imperfections indicated by yourself -- non-intelligent nature, perishableness and so on.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Vedanta-Sutras with the Commentary by Ramanuja — Sacred Books of the East, Volume 48] Reference

For the sole alternative is one which would be equally mysterious, and besides, contradictory to the marks of change -- of transition -- and of perishableness in our planet itself, -- viz. the hypothesis of an eternal unoriginated race: and that is more confounding to the human intellect than any miracle whatever: so that, even tried merely as one probability against another, the miracle would have the advantage.    From Wordnik.com.  [Theological Essays and Other Papers — Volume 1] Reference

Cleansing or scouring agrestic: rural, rustic, unpolished, uncouth apodeictic: unquestionably true by virtue of demonstration caducity: perishableness, senility compossible: possible in coesistence with something else embrangle: to confuse or entangle exuviate: to shed (a skin or similar outer covering): short and stout, squat griseous.    From Wordnik.com.  [Club Troppo] Reference

Mr. Thostrup, of moralizing over the perishableness of female beauty! ".    From Wordnik.com.  [O. T. a Danish Romance] Reference

The spirit’s body is in fact, as such, no longer a mere nature-object, but, as the exclusive possession of an immortal subject, it is also itself raised above the perishableness incident to all mere nature-objects. —.    From Wordnik.com.  [Christian Ethics. Volume II.���Pure Ethics.] Reference

And while the lapse of time has not been able to make me doubt the worth of my work, neither has the lack of sympathy; for I constantly saw the false and the bad, and finally the absurd and senseless, stand in universal admiration and honour, and I bethought myself that if it were not the case, those who are capable of recognising the genuine and right are so rare that we may look for them in vain for some twenty years, then those who are capable of producing it could not be so few that their works afterwards form an exception to the perishableness of earthly things; and thus would be lost the reviving prospect of posterity which every one who sets before himself a high aim requires to strengthen him.”.    From Wordnik.com.  [Essays of Schopenhauer] Reference

"Alas for the perishableness of eloquence!.    From Wordnik.com.  [Starr King in California] Reference

For supposing an island, separate from all possible commerce with the rest of the world, wherein there were but a hundred families, but there were sheep, horses, and cows, with other useful animals, wholesome fruits, and land enough for corn for a hundred thousand times as many, but nothing in the island, either because of its commonness or perishableness, fit to supply the place of money.    From Wordnik.com.  [Two Treatises of Government: of Civil Government Book II] Reference

And as different degrees of industry were apt to give men possessions in different proportions, so this invention of money gave them the opportunity to continue and enlarge them: for supposing an island, separate from all possible commerce with the rest of the world, wherein there were but an hundred families, but there were sheep, horses and cows, with other useful animals, wholsome fruits, and land enough for corn for a hundred thousand times as many, but nothing in the island, either because of its commonness, or perishableness, fit to supply the place of money; what reason could any one have there to enlarge his possessions beyond the use of his family, and a plentiful supply to its consumption, either in what their own industry produced, or they could barter for like perishable, useful commodities, with others?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Second Treatise of Government] Reference