perishing vs sullying

perishing

noun
  • The act of something that perishes; decay or destruction. 

adj
  • Extreme; used of environmental or bodily conditions. 

  • Extremely cold. 

sullying

noun
  • The process by which something is sullied or made dirty. 

How often have the words perishing and sullying occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )