mortal part

Example Sentences

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All these, and more, are immortal shapes; and he that made them so, although his mortal part be but a handful of dust in yonder crypt, is a glorious angel beyond the stars.

From Shakespeare's England by Winter, William

Noble was his life; consecrated will be the ground that receives his mortal part.

From The Comstock Club by Goodwin, Charles Carroll

I was led to a spot where rested the mortal part of one whose image came up before me with the vividness of living reality.

From Gleanings by the Way by Clark, John A.

These animals are every where tenacious of life, and will run a long way after being hit in a mortal part.

From Anecdotes of the Habits and Instinct of Animals by Weir, Harrison

Be thine the mortal part; heaven holds the best, And, glorying in its brightness, brighter glows, While memory still records the great and good.

From The Sonnets, Triumphs, and Other Poems of Petrarch by Campbell, Thomas